melodrama
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This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
The danger is that economic anxiety can curdle into existential melodrama.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
I did not want to make something that was morose or a melodrama.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Moving from maths to post-match monologues and melodrama.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 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
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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