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as in sentimentality
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Recent Examples of melodrama
There’s a real tension running throughout between high-minded sci-fi and outright melodrama.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The throbbing beats bang up against the high-speed back-and-forth of the matches, pumping up the action — and the emotional stakes — with frantic rhythms rather than conventional sports-movie melodrama.
—Alan Light, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
The cast is more than up to the task of making the melodrama relatable.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
That trophy inflated expectations for The Room Next Door above what was reasonable, though as the euthanasia melodrama rolls into theaters this weekend, the hype has cooled.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2024
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The throbbing beats bang up against the high-speed back-and-forth of the matches, pumping up the action — and the emotional stakes — with frantic rhythms rather than conventional sports-movie melodrama.
—Alan Light, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
The cast is more than up to the task of making the melodrama relatable.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
That trophy inflated expectations for The Room Next Door above what was reasonable, though as the euthanasia melodrama rolls into theaters this weekend, the hype has cooled.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for melodrama
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
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Tim Lammers For example, SPE’s summer action comedy smash Bad Boys: Ride or Die opened in theaters on June 7 PVOD and arrived on PVOD about six weeks later, on July 23.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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The original did air on NBC, which could rebuild a comedy block to try to bring back Must-See TV.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
18 Jan. 2025
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Through his long and, at times, controversial F1 career, Briatore has never been one for sentimentality.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Better Man ends on a several notes, some discordant, of forgiveness regarding both father and son, which admittedly tests your tolerance for sentimentality.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 Dec. 2024
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Feldman’s specific style is hard to explain or neatly label though critics and viewers alike have tried to with terms like dramedy and tragicomedy.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Dec. 2024
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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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There was a not-insignificant strain of complaint about Guardians 3 trading in its fun irreverence for goopy emotionalism and melodrama.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2024
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The results are equal parts marital crisis, sins-of-the-father psychodrama and visceral body horror.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Jan. 2025
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Niemann himself sometimes seems like a method actor appearing in a psychodrama, whether by temperament or by a recognition that the mad villain is the only decent role available to him now.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2025
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The GoFundMe appeal continues to raise donations from well-wishers keen to help the family move on from the tragedy.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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All these years later, through prosperity and tragedy and a rebirth with the Chiefs, Reid has become what might be considered a coaching version of Picasso — one of the most influential and successful forces ever at their craft.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
19 Jan. 2025
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The study used the HEXACO Personality Inventory to determine key six personality traits: honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
24 Jan. 2025
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Too often in my work as a CEO (especially as one who identifies as a woman), I’m immersed in debates about the value of removing emotion from professional spaces, as if the presence of emotionality is a risk to business growth.—
Sarah Kellogg Neff,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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The film adaptation of the iconic musical was released widely in the United States on Jan. 21, 2005 Comments It's been 20 years since Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler stepped into the iconic mask and white dress to bring The Phantom of the Opera to the big screen.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Taylor-Corbett choreographed and/or directed more than a dozen off-Broadway musicals since 1987, including 1992’s Eating Raoul, 2009’s My Vaudeville Man!—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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