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Recent Examples of melodrama
Why did the intel officials go public with lights, cameras and melodrama?
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Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Despite being a sports melodrama, the filmmaking fails to distinguish either components, stylistically or narratively.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
Love Is Blind thrives on overwrought music cues, and its soaring, on-the-nose ballads are just another layer of the show’s orchestrated melodrama.
—Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2025
This included a wide range of stories, from Westerns and detective drama to monster films, character serials or melodramas.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
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Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Despite being a sports melodrama, the filmmaking fails to distinguish either components, stylistically or narratively.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
Love Is Blind thrives on overwrought music cues, and its soaring, on-the-nose ballads are just another layer of the show’s orchestrated melodrama.
—Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2025
This included a wide range of stories, from Westerns and detective drama to monster films, character serials or melodramas.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
Noun
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The White Lotus is a black comedy anthology series following the guests and employees of the fictional White Lotus resort chain.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
31 Mar. 2025
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But the conflict between the two couples, the three generations of Italian-Americans, and the Tanya-and-the-gays stuff was all still really compelling drama and dark comedy.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Gone are the days of sending flowers and jewelry; today’s unique anniversary gifts for him and her focus on personal touches and sentimentality.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
Fox News,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Islanders spent their final game before the trade deadline surrounded by uncertainty and steeped in sentimentality.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Directed by Josef Hader The soil of the Austrian countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-director-star Hader’s second feature as a director after 2017’s Wild Mouse.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
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Alas, Godwin’s gentle take on the tragicomedy misses the explosive nature of this moment, the desperation these characters feel to change their fate right now or live and die steeped in stifling ennui.—
Karen D'Souza,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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Simmons took that religious devotion to exercise, stripped away its grim asceticism and elitism, and imbued it with pure emotionalism and inclusivity.—
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela,
The Atlantic,
16 July 2024
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About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The rush occurred mere weeks before Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach’s planned announcement of their spa updates; the tragedy in Los Angeles simply moved up the timeline for the quiet, coastal community’s merits as a luxury wellness hub.—
Jessica Ourisman,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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And that March, tragedy struck when three people died in a fatal crowd surge at her concert with Finesse2tymes in Rochester, N.Y.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.—
Carrie Wittmer,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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If the past 50 years of scores were all about boundless emotionality, these newer scores are pulsing and discordant — closer to Steve Reich or Karlheinz Stockhausen than European Romantic composers like Beethoven or first-generation Americans like Leonard Bernstein.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Finally, Winter Park Playhouse has cemented its lineup of new musicals that will receive staged readings at the Florida Festival of New Musicals.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
20 Mar. 2025
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Both theaters have also staged musicals in the past.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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