melodrama
Example Sentences
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To satisfy an audience’s craving for meatier emotionality, there are melodramas embedded in this fantasia, too.
From Washington Post
Heidi Gardner has developed a knack for portraying women in troubled relationships, dialing up the melodrama until she gets a laugh.
From New York Times
It has elements of melodrama, of the soap opera even.
From Washington Post
As time passes, Rockwell plays with genre — the social-issue drama, the maternal melodrama — as well as with color, light and texture, variations that complement, and comment on, the changes happening outside Inez and Terry’s apartment.
From New York Times
The lurches in tone — family melodrama to political thriller to dinner-table farce — make this feel less like a series than a short-story anthology by mismatched authors riffing on a theme.
From New York Times
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