We enjoyed the melodrama because of the antics of the villain and the twist at the end of the play. From LearnThat.org.
Strained humor gives way to maudlin melodrama. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Cannes. Garage.] Reference
A bit of camp melodrama is just what we both need. From Wordnik.com. [The One With The Dark Night] Reference
The melodrama is running high, but so is the suspense. From Wordnik.com. [24 – 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.] Reference
Do you think melodrama is another genre or is it a lesser genre?. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Sparks Interview DEAR JOHN – Collider.com] Reference
Fireworks in the background are no substitute for an external arc, and occasional melodrama is no substitute for an internal arc. From Wordnik.com. [internal/external «] Reference
The melodrama is a bit bloodless, though, figuratively and literally. From Wordnik.com. [Screen News] Reference
In the case of Baz Luhrmann's ludicrously ambitious melodrama, which is every bit as sprawling. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Brad Paisley draws on his serious side] Reference
The program kicked off with a presentation of a spoken-word melodrama with musical accompaniment, Enoch Arden, based on the Tennyson poem. From Wordnik.com. [The Ax Man Cometh] Reference
Just referring to the melodrama which is crunchnotes. com. From Wordnik.com. [Scripting News for 12/11/2006 « Scripting News Annex] Reference
You used the word "melodrama" earlier, and that's kind of what they are, and that's a legitimate literary form. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2005] Reference
The drama that she brings is also attractive in a culture where "melodrama" does not carry a negative connotation. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Lynch: Oh My Lady Gaga! A Star Is Born in... China] Reference
It's a movie about the movies of the '50s, this particular kind of melodrama and these films were social commentary, really. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2003] Reference
Mr. BRANCH: I do laugh, it's a formula for melodrama which is why I think that the great lessons from this period are still lost. From Wordnik.com. [R&B Legend Wilson Pickett] Reference
Earlier when I said that few people could pull of this kind of melodrama---well, I actually had Bono and U2 in mind as one of those few. From Wordnik.com. ["American Prayer" of the damned.] Reference
Jet Li plays unusual role in Chinese melodrama. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Edinburgh international film festival, Madonna's latest movie and East End etiquette] Reference
Frank Graves describes the political season that was as a "melodrama" in four parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
It was a strange kind of melodrama that experience in the first two months of the war. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the War] Reference
The word "melodrama" doesn't have much currency in movies these days, but in its best moments. From Wordnik.com. [Cinema Blend Feeds] Reference
In short, the movie shies away from all the melodrama which is the norm in contemporary Bollywood movies. From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
To please the actors, and especially my mother, I wrote a kind of melodrama, in which I brought out two harlequins. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Both Cuban-Americans, they took office a year ago promising to avoid the kind of melodrama that has long plagued Miami. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
If I ever do write another book, I think I will have nothing of what you call 'melodrama'; I think so, but I am not sure. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
In semi-delirium, as though half asleep, I looked back upon my strange, incoherent life, and for some reason recalled a melodrama, "The. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories] Reference
It's called melodrama for a reason. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters] Reference
Ozon leaches his melodrama of all sentimentality, and moves us all the more. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Judgment: Movies] Reference
Or was it just one more melodrama in a career that's reached soap operatic proportions?. From Wordnik.com. [Serious George Is Back] Reference
For all its false starts and melodrama, it achieves a realistic goal: containing Saddam. From Wordnik.com. [Deja Vu All Over Again] Reference
But this arty melodrama is not likely to make teenage America get down with Shakespeare. From Wordnik.com. [Final Score: O,What A Pity] Reference
Maybe if he unlearns the overcooked language of Hollywood melodrama he'll find his true voice. From Wordnik.com. [Boyz N The Quad] Reference
What I thought was naughty and necessary romance and drama turns out to be more like melodrama. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Antonya Nelson] Reference
If you have a taste for melodrama, save yourself the trouble and catch reruns of "Dallas" instead. From Wordnik.com. [MUST SEE OF MUST FLEE?] Reference
TO HEAR LAURENT YENE TELL IT, THE transaction went down like a scene out of a Hollywood political melodrama. From Wordnik.com. [A Mystery Man Speaks] Reference
Here is a bit of dialogue from Zangwill's greatest hit, a four-act melodrama that opened in Washington in 1908. From Wordnik.com. [America: Still A Melting Pot?] Reference
This unsettling movie doesn't need melodrama to achieve suspense; it's nerve-racking enough pondering the inside of another person's head. From Wordnik.com. [This Time, The Bad Guy Finishes First] Reference
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