melodrama

How To Use melodrama In A Sentence

• Instead of a crime-does-not-pay melodrama, the play became an acute study of marital and psychological disintegration
• 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 the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
• I don't really agree with some of Cosby's reasoning or melodramatics, but his crux is excellent.
• Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces. Lady Baltimore
• ‘It's meant to be’ jibes Danilo as he storms off the Westmorland Hall stage with such splendid melodrama he almost pushes conductor Wyn Davies into his illustrious players.
• And no, a filmmaker doesn't need to resort to cheap tricks and melodrama to tell the story.
• Every band's either got good vibrations or doomy melodrama.
• In fact, these kinds of films need melodrama; they need action or events that externalise the emotions driving the story.
• If you're a fan of the theatre, don't mind luvvies being luvvies and enjoy an elongated version of a Sunday night period melodrama, with an abundance of tomfoolery, then this should tickle your fancy.
• On the negative side, the author's voice is too chatty and the dialogue is overly melodramatic.