melodramas 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. Koreans like melodramas.

2. The play was the first in a long line of popular melodramas with piratical themes.

3. He was apparently a very successful playwright; his works included a great many melodramas and popular tragedies, including Barmecide; or, The

4. Befriend is that breath of fresh air that's needed to ground you in reality after watching so many fantasy/melodramas

5. At the end of the 17th century, the Arcadians began a movement to restore simplicity and classical restraint to poetry, as in Metastasio's heroic melodramas.

6. Some early examples of what were later called incidental music are also described as semi-operas, quasi-operas, masques, vaudevilles and melodramas.

7. In Defense Of Jazz Biopics: Melodramas And Morality Tales, Set To Music Many jazz fans hate biopic films, but critic Kevin Whitehead likes noticing which true …

8. 13 Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of thunder, as in the melodramas.

9. One of the most beautiful women in 40s Hollywood, star of Laura, one of the greatest (and oddest) crime melodramas ever... Gene Tierney had that legendary overbite that everyone talked about.

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11. ‘At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and hArlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of …

12. He bumps heads with the sort of characters who inhabited British melodramas of the '40s and '50s, including the witch-like Steffy Millington (Sonia Dresdel) and her daffy hubby, Bill Millington (Colin Gordon), a couple with an unexpected supply of light-hearted Noel Cowardish banter; a sour-looking blonde, Vera Kurton (Eleanor Summerfield), and