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Recent Examples of psychodrama
Barney, as is often the case, reveals unexpected refinement, directing a black-and-white psychodrama about his alcoholism, but Homer, who’s on the judging panel, prefers the one with the football in the groin.
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Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Performing an intense psychodrama about your wife’s family, night after night, must be gruelling.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
Gaga would be seen as a key component of what Phillips wants to do with this sequel as well, in terms of integrating old-fashioned musical numbers into the psychodrama.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
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Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Performing an intense psychodrama about your wife’s family, night after night, must be gruelling.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
Gaga would be seen as a key component of what Phillips wants to do with this sequel as well, in terms of integrating old-fashioned musical numbers into the psychodrama.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychodrama
Noun
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While the Hallmark series is a far cry from the melodrama of his soapier work, the actor compared When Calls the Heart’s passionate fanbase to that of General Hospital.—
John Russell,
People.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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How a 30-year-old singer, born in Argentina and raised in Spain, manages to channel the smoldering melodrama of Latin music’s golden era with such uncanny precision remains a bit of a mystery.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Smashing a watermelon with a giant mallet to the messy delight of audiences, Leo Gallagher became one of the biggest comedy acts of the 1980s and shot to superstardom.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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Again, there’s no hard and fast definition for what constitutes a dumb comedy.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
19 Mar. 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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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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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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In an early form of influencer marketing, Allgood arranged for a live opossum to appear onstage with Anna Held, Broadway’s most popular musical comedy star.—
Howard Dorre,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Mar. 2025
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Not to be confused with New Zealand musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.—
Thomas Curran,
Time,
8 Aug. 2023
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Suzie Miller constructs her monodrama at the intersection of #MeToo and British justice, and though the dramatist appends a superfluous moral to the story, the proceedings amount to a virtuosic, blow-by-blow account of a process stacked against female victims.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
17 May 2022
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Along the way, there was an over-the-top, head-scratching marching band interlude and a bloody brawl.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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This straightforward plot is often broken up by poetic interludes, made up of languid shots of a changing cityscape.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Psychodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychodrama. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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