melodrama
Example Sentences
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“If America is analyzed as a film genre, it would be a melodrama,” says Desson Thomson, a Washington Post staff critic for 20 years.
Market participants have come to assume they will come out of these recurring melodramas intact.
From Barron's
Devoid of music or melodrama, this is slow cinema at its most viscerally rigorous and patient.
From Los Angeles Times
Filmmakers still find a way to focus on the same themes that dominate Nollywood: love, vengeance and treason all make good fodder for the at times over-the-top melodrama Nigerian movies are known for.
From Barron's
From the look of it, one of her favorite Israeli melodramas.
From Literature
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