melodrama
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Instead, the banality-clogged script plays like teen TV melodrama minus the teens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
A peak of pop excess, Raye's second full-length album is a 73-minute melodrama, sprinkled with golden age Hollywood glamour, show-stopping ballads, tongue twisting wordplay and genre smashing handbrake turns.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Opening the third annual edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies, the comedy darling’s sincere melodrama is also bracingly funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
They were complicated, secretive, compulsive and potentially deadly, and the film’s gripping melodrama was a stark contrast to any glamorous tabloid portrayal.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
At the California Labor School a forceful and perceptive teacher quickly and unceremoniously separated me from melodrama.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Yet, there’s a distinctly mesmeric quality to these modern melodramas regardless.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Market participants have come to assume they will come out of these recurring melodramas intact.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Many things happen, never for too long; all kinds of maladies, medications and melodramas are involved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Under the umbrella of “Masterpiece,” a cavalcade of mysteries, dramas, melodramas and multipart adaptations of classic novels have come to these shores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
From the look of it, one of her favorite Israeli melodramas.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing melodrama
Drama Terminology
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Literary Genres - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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