melodrama in English

noun
1
a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.
Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines, anchoring many mediocre melodramas and haughty period pieces like a pro.
2
a play interspersed with songs and orchestral music accompanying the action.
He wrote songs, operas, and operettas, pantomimes, melodramas , and in 1823, a History of Music.

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1. I love Victorian melodrama.

2. This has been a constant melodrama.

3. Instead of tragedy, we got melodrama.

4. A dark and empty passage mocked his melodrama.

5. We really don't need all this ridiculous melodrama!

6. Film critics are calling the movie a glossy melodrama.

7. Her love of melodrama meant that any small problem became a crisis.

8. The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.

9. Penhaligon's story has all the ingredients of a Victorian melodrama.

10. He was behaving like a character in a Victorian melodrama.

11. The film is flawed by moments of melodrama and sentimentality.

12. F9 Is a Blast, Until Melodrama Drags It Back to Earth

13. The action slips from comedy to melodrama and finally to tragedy.

14. In movies like this, there is a great temptation to lean heavily on the melodrama.

15. In 2018, Kai was cast in KBS' melodrama Miracle That We Met.

16. Few events this century have rivaled the sinking of the Titanic for sheer melodrama.

17. 13 Otherwise, it is an extraordinary procession of poker-faced melodrama of stadium proportions.

18. Given the monochromatic melodrama of modern country music, versatility may not be the correct answer.

19. Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.

20. Judging from Burlesk King, a fleshy new Filipino melodrama written by Ricky Lee and directed by …

21. Recounted with even a trace of melodrama, this story would read like a soap opera.

22. In 2004, he returned to television in the melodrama What Happened in Bali, alongside Ha Ji-won and So Ji-sub.

23. Please think about these things in a more reasonable mood, shaking off the excess melodrama as you proceed.

24. Ged Dale, Eccles, LancsOne is a Blowsy, overblown and preposterous melodrama played out to a hysterical score.

25. The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama.

26. The works we discuss feature everything from Russian melodrama to middle-aged erotic fiction to sharp-witted existentialism.

27. Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.

28. A melodrama about refugees existing on the black market surrounding the Yongsan U.S. army base after the Korean War.

29. 24 Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.

30. And so on the City College campus a vague and indistinctly demarcated intellectual struggle assumed, amazingly, the form of melodrama.

31. Of course the studio hoped that the film would succeed as melodrama and much of the publicity stressed its entertainment value.

32. Billions Critics Consensus Despite a lack of likable characters, Billions ' soapy melodrama and larger-than-life canvas offer plenty of repeat viewing potential.

33. Directed by Max Ophuls, "Caught" is a soapy melodrama that has a couple things going for it that push it above the purely routine

34. It became the highest grossing Korean film released in China to date, taking in more than US$9.5 million over two weeks, which was unprecedented for a melodrama.

35. Elevated by some of Robin Williams' finest non-comedic work and a strong performance from Robert De Niro, Awakenings skirts the edges of melodrama, then soars above it

36. Critics consensus Elevated by some of Robin Williams' finest non-comedic work and a strong performance from Robert De Niro, Awakenings skirts the edges of melodrama, then soars above it.

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38. The classic and much-loved romantic melodrama Casablanca (1942), always found on top-ten lists of films, is a masterful tale of two men vying for the same woman's love in a love triangle

39. Other articles where Les Burgraves is discussed: French literature: Hugo: The failure of Hugo’s Les Burgraves (1843; “The Commanders”), an overinflated epic melodrama, is commonly seen as the beginning of the end of Romantic theatre.

40. They continued to experiment with string arrangements to various effect; Sgt. Pepper's "She's Leaving Home", for instance, is "cast in the mold of a sentimental Victorian ballad", Gould writes, "its words and music filled with the clichés of musical melodrama".

41. Blancmange have a distinct sense of humour in their music, though Waves is emotional / quite 'heavy' (love it), most of Blancmange's music is light, can be satirical, an alternative to melodrama; and the electronica, though common in the Eighties, is more central to their sound

42. BEST OF THE REST Eltis' initial focus on melodrama is threaded throughout the book as a whole, as she discusses the obsessive repetitions of tropes of seduced heroines, Bigamous wives, and criminal mothers, in a powerful account of the troubled side of nineteenth-century ideologies of gender