How To Use Melodramatic In A Sentence

I don't really agree with some of Cosby's reasoning or melodramatics, but his crux is excellent.
On the negative side, the author's voice is too chatty and the dialogue is overly melodramatic.
In her films, Wishman employs standard melodramatic plot lines and then inverts the parameters to impose illicit acts and criminal vice into the fray.
As for the role of men in this movie, let me say that, for the most part, they are not depicted as melodramatic villains.
Their melodramatic arrangements, cascading strings and faintly histrionic vocal performances reflected the films' camp excesses.

The narrative material is obviously shaped in order to wring the audience's melodramatic heart.
I'm almost totally over yesterday's melodramatic tantrum.
The acting style is melodramatic. Times, Sunday Times
Most of you must know that Udayakumar, a contemporary of Rajkumar, was famous for his highly melodramatic performances.
He does well connecting with a scene, but often comes across as melodramatic and hokey in this silly musical.
McFay, a carpenter, who had distinguished himself at the previous trial by the melodramatic quality of his testimony, proved the peskiest witness of all. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
The commentary became less melodramatic as it went along. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
One moment there's a duff melodramatic twist. Times, Sunday Times
Like the 1939 classic it adores, Australia is stiltedly comical, sweepingly starry-eyed, and melodramatic in its approach to war and racism. Buzzine » DVD Roundup
Already, we've got presumptuous soccer powerhouses in flames; clotheshorse managers who appear to be angling for invites aboard Valentino's yacht; referees under siege; and unforgettably melodramatic acting. Now Appearing in South Africa: Les Mis
Not to be melodramatic, but the empire awaits your decision.
The audio is solid, although the voice acting is overdone and melodramatic.
That might sound rather melodramatic, but that was what the cold war was about. Times, Sunday Times
Another long pause of silence, not due to shock or confusion, just because they'd done this before and neither felt it necessary to repeat melodramatics.
It couldn't make up its mind whether to be intentionally, camply sneery and sniggery or just boldly melodramatic. Times, Sunday Times
This had been too halcyon a day to clutter up the memory of it with some backwoods bully's melodramatic bellowings. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
It would be a melodramatic exaggeration for me to say that I fight this battle within myself every day.
These last four episodes finally deliver emotional depth and honest-to-goodness conflict, which sets up even deeper (or more melodramatic, based on your viewpoint) reactions in the viewer.
They probably did so with melodramatic flourish, causing fear and speculation to run wild.
Ozu himself hinted at a reservation: " This is one of my most melodramatic pictures.
Yeah, in defiance of the hoariest cliche in the Big Bumper Book of Onscreen Melodramatic Cliches, have your characters wander into the House of DeathFilled WithPossible Anomaly Monsters, unarmoured, unarmed etc etc. Primeval Season 3: What The Hell Happened? – Updated « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
Their efforts are commendable, but the film's melodramatic story is heavy labour for viewers. Times, Sunday Times
There are no melodramatic trills or fluting crescendos in her everyday speech.
But somehow the melodramatic elements are transcended, and the movie moves you, as movies always should.
Many things of this nature had been done by the new commonwealth; but, alas! she did not drape herself melodramatically, nor stalk about with heroic wreath and cothurn. History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)
The film's clobbering delivery of this soap opera is not made any subtler by the anguish Christoffer feels at losing his humanity and, in the process, his wife: this is simply the cue for yet more dreary melodramatics.
He takes a relatively restrained approach to potentially melodramatic material and scenes in which she is unswayed by bribes or beatings make a considerable impact.
But however melodramatic or cartoonish Palmer's characters seem to be, their sentiments are real enough.
The way in which O'Connor's work embodies a particular interpretation of Catholic doctrine has always seemed to me the least interesting subject of inquiry into her fiction, and, as Anderson does correctly note, most non-scholarly readers remain unaware that it even is a subject relevant to the fiction, so fully isthat fictionotherwise focused on its depiction of its Southern mileu, grotesque characters, and perversely melodramatic events. Signature Elements
Minorities, especially ethnic minorities, are used to authenticate the affective, melodramatic component of contemporary narratives.
My character is really melodramatic, in that one minute she is throwing a tantrum and the next she is laughing hysterically, but I wasn't at all like that.
Those scripts had occasional moments of truth but were stuck in a rut of creaky sentiment and melodramatics.
These virtues could have been accompanied by a bit more melodramatic fervour, but they still make for a satisfying movie. Times, Sunday Times
True, I have chosen somewhat melodramatic examples; but there are plenty of others, less melodramatic but equally apropos - especially, perhaps, in the realm of sexual morality.
As far as "overacting" comment, I thought they were perfect these characters are very melodramatic and I thought Rob and Kristen were totally on point! Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
One drink is too many and a thousand is not enough,' she writes in rather melodramatic fashion. Times, Sunday Times
The 12 songs here reveal a band that's cocksure but never cocky, moody but never melodramatic and musically adept.
Though I might wax too melodramatic in saying so, Trust is even, perhaps, a story of what it is to be a flawed, human hero.
The film's only weakness is that the twists and improbable coincidences are almost too melodramatic for their own good. Times, Sunday Times
Frequently theatrical and melodramatic, it captured the tensions of wartime Britain, thriving in enforced isolation.
He saw only the necessary stages that had led to it, and to him they seemed natural; but to Adams, still living in the atmosphere of Palmerston and John Russell, the sudden appearance of Germany as the grizzly terror which, in twenty years effected what Adamses had tried for two hundred in vain, frightened England into Americas arms, seemed as melodramatic as any plot of Napoleon the Great. Indian Summer (1898–1899)
Overall though, Moneyball is more melodramatic than one might expect from the pen of Sorkin who massaged an earlier draft by Steven Zaillian, gooier in the middle and coshing the audience with emotional wallops. Moneyball – review
Tosca may be an audience-pleasing masterpiece, but apparently young singers no longer relate to its sweaty melodramatics.
For all the hamminess, it has a kind of mad, melodramatic, mesmeric power, a thrilling sort of staginess – and of course, back in 1942, it was far from clear his threat would not be carried out. Mrs Miniver shares Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes feeling
Mr Posh was so miffed he flounced into training, lanky hair pushed back by an Alice band to show off his scar to the world, wearing the sort of sulk most three-year-olds would consider melodramatic.
The calm humility present here allows us to be moved by the melodramatic aspects of the work more than they might usually.
The love passages are pauses in a course of violent action, the assassination of Rizzio, the murder of Darnley are not overcoloured melodramatically, and the scenes in and about the Studies in Literature and History
Actually, that's a bit melodramatic. Times, Sunday Times
It's gripping, if a bit melodramatic. Times, Sunday Times
Don't you think you're being a bit melodramatic? Times, Sunday Times
It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong.
Instead, the producers seemed to think Belle needed to be "humanized," which translates into much melodramatic angst and bemoaning the fact she can't have a romantic relationship while maintaining her call girl career. Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish
Clearly, the melodramatic plot is a vehicle for the wacky characters and witty dialogue, and the performances are crisp and funny.
His picture of rural life is more mellow than melodramatic; and his tale reaches a happy end, unchequered by anything more sensational than a mild outbreak of scandal from the local wag-tongues. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917
For a start, he's got a real temper on him, which some are marking out as a good attitude, but for a first proper Wimbledon appearance he seemed a mite melodramatic to me.
There was nothing in the least melodramatic about him; he never posed or attitudinized -- it would have required too much patience; but he was always piquant. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
In fact, despite Katie Sketch's melodramatics (at times), her yearning howl is easily the most original thing here.
It is full of moral speechifying and erudite detail and has a convoluted plot replete with melodramatic deaths and wonderful recoveries and coincidences.
I began to notice how shamelessly melodramatic this film really is.
It's passionate but not overblown or melodramatic.
These virtues could have been accompanied by a bit more melodramatic fervour, but they still make for a worthwhile film. Times, Sunday Times
He automatically steps into the room, casting a melodramatic look over his shoulder.
He has paid his dues to the sentimental and the melodramatic, and is now ready to abandon these narrative modes.
In fact, the distances she needs to bridge are far greater than Orwell's – Wigan miners weren't to old Etonians as hill tribes are to metropolitan Indians – and her writing is more prolix and melodramatic. Arundhati Roy: India's bold and brilliant daughter
He replied adding a bit more melodramatics that were absolutely necessary and also using the nickname I had acquired from him when we first met.
The dangers of writing either melodramatically or reductively about the slaughter and terror at the center of these new killing fields are all too real.
There was a tendency to employ static, theatrical production techniques. The emotional impact was over-sentimental or melodramatic, with predictable plots and stereotyped characterization.
His action had not only hurt this other person, but it also hurt me, because as melodramatic as it sounds, I almost started to cry.
In neither case are the flawed endings disastrous, but, for discerning viewers, the end-game melodramatics may leave a slightly bitter taste.
While it toyed with serious drama, Moulin Rouge is injected with joyous melodramatic fun.
Norburn and Taylor belong to the subtle school: muted but plaintive accompaniment counterpointing a singing voice which is both expressive and intimate; occasionally dramatic but never melodramatic.
Minorities, especially ethnic minorities, are used to authenticate the affective, melodramatic component of contemporary narratives.
Unfortunately, the equality extends to the stilted acting, melodramatic meanderings, and too-convoluted plot twists of its erotic thriller pedigree.
Perhaps you think me melodramatic, or even histrionic.
A second goal was in the air and Ruud van Nistelrooy went looking for it with a melodramatic lurch to the ground in search of a penalty.
The drawn out melodramatics annoy Isabelle and she stirs her drink with a finger, keeping her eyes on the glass.
The film's only weakness is that the twists and improbable coincidences are almost too melodramatic for their own good. Times, Sunday Times
Such movies are quintessentially melodramatic.
Tosca, of course, is a stunner, and verismo at its melodramatic best.
The lyrics may be a bit melodramatic, but on a whole, this is perfect mood music to go with candles and dimmed lights.
The voice actors on the Japanese dub tend a little too far toward the melodramatic end of the scale, though, so I can't recommend one track over the other.
I screamed, and swooped off to my room in melodramatic fashion.
she acted melodramatically when she called for help
The film's only weakness is that the twists and improbable coincidences are almost too melodramatic for their own good. Times, Sunday Times
Prog rock influences also come through in the form of the melodramatic outro. The Sun
It's melodramatic to see him as an anti-life force, as his young lover evidently did, but it probably took someone of her strength to reject his ethos as completely as she did, both personally and in her writing.
here, the hero is melodramatically reunited with the heroine
Or maybe it's just old-fashioned, gutwrenching melodramatics.
Other reviews of Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan I've read on the Internet have commented on its melodramatics and its hammy acting.
Taking offence, making a show of it, is a peculiarly self-theatrical, melodramatic, histrionic gesture in the annals of criticism.
I fear it still sounds that way to me, even in this simpler version, which retains all the sweaty climaxes and empty posturing of the original, musical features that make the play's overcooked melodramatics even harder to take.
Soap opera is the descendant of the melodramatic in televisual form.
As a production of the book and opera Carmen, Karmen Gai does offer some wonderfully melodramatic scenes.
As their empires' borders crept closer, so began the Great Game, a melodramatic blend of exploration and intrigue with spies, adventurers and ‘political agents’.
No slight was intended, I'm sure, the sin - to be melodramatic for a moment - being one of omission, not commission.
He waved his arms in a melodramatic gesture.
Without being hokey or melodramatic, there is a message of hope in the album… it's positive.
Donning his signature glasses, he forewent his usual opening segment and re-enacted Beck's melodramatic sign off to a tee before moving on to three more hilarious segments dissecting all his quirks. Jon Stewart Says Goodbye To Glenn Beck, Mocks Him For Entire Episode (VIDEO)
Incidentally, the above use of ‘martyr’ was no exaggeration or melodramatic affectation.
An epic, melodramatic introduction to one of world cinema's true masters. The Sun
A little melodramatic, I grant you, but it represented the worst-case scenario.
In the process they have cut the worst of the sentimental and melodramatic elements to create a much tauter, more compelling plot-line.
Apart from its balletic set-pieces of gunfights, the film ran a gauntlet of emotions from violent excitement to melodramatics to softhearted sentimentality.
The taste for melodramatic costume changes that seems to afflict the epoch's entire cast reaches a crescendo in a section devoted to the allegorical portrait. Times, Sunday Times
The characters all speak in melodramatic, incomplete sentences as if they knew unspeakable horrors, but this tactic merely delays revelations that turn out to be quite dull.
Frequently theatrical and melodramatic, it captured the tensions of wartime Britain, thriving in enforced isolation.
At times, Saldaña is grandiose, overearnest — "melodramatic," one reviewer said — the inevitable consequence of youth. Youth and Prayer
Her brushwork is lighter, looser, and more melodramatic than Freud's; there is even some pink playfulness - a touch of rococo - in her work.
Referred to jokily in some correspondence as “Waldstein”—the name of Roald’s favorite Beethoven piano sonata—in letters home, he was also portrayed melodramatically as “a dark cunning little Jew.” Storyteller
The snickering stopped when I realized - cue melodramatic organ music - that the creepy kid was me.
Eastwood is going to shift gears for the final third and turn it into a melodramatic weepy of the worst kind.
The watercolors depict the slugs engaging in melodramatic activities.
The watercolors depict the slugs engaging in melodramatic activities.
The taste for melodramatic costume changes that seems to afflict the epoch's entire cast reaches a crescendo in a section devoted to the allegorical portrait. Times, Sunday Times
She has an actress's flair for melodramatics and is more than a little bit spoiled besides.
This begins immediately for Foxe when Elizabeth is arrested. 168 In Foxe's melodramatic depiction, Queen Mary's commissioners arrived at Elizabeth's residence in the middle of the night, barged their way past the "aghast" servants and told the princess that they had orders to bring her to court "either quick or dead. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
She could go either way from here: deeper into melodramatics or further towards pop. Times, Sunday Times
So, yesterday I was being a little melodramatic and very emotional.
Enrique Iglesias, and the music is a little melodramatic-it's the kind of anthemic sound that's much more appealling if you can belt out the lyrics along with the recording, which will probably take me a few more listens (of course, I'll be at a disadvantage, seeing as I'm an English speaker, but I've never let that stop me before). Tablet Magazine
This transformation encapsulates the larger changes in shôjo manga in the 1970s, when authors used melodramatic conventions received from earlier shôjo magazines and novels, to create stories that explored the psychological interiority and sexual agency of girls. License Request Day: The Rose of Versailles
The opposite of all that is beautiful" – a melodramatic, very actressy statement? If only John Galliano's hate rant was a one-off | Barbara Ellen
The darling of the French public retains his popularity with most, although he is lampooned by some for his melodramatic 18 months of denial.
The taste for melodramatic costume changes that seems to afflict the epoch's entire cast reaches a crescendo in a section devoted to the allegorical portrait. Times, Sunday Times
Wainwright experiments with song structure and instrumentation, dabbling in swaying pop songs, waltzes and layers of horns and strings, giving the album an old world feel that moves from the whimsical to the melodramatic.
She is not hooked on soap operas, she is melodramatically fixated.
Over the years, Wright's melodramatics grew tiresome, but these were genuine tears.
Dave Griffiths presents his film and lightbox installation Seer's Catalogue, a series of variations on a theme that, with deadpan earnestness, takes in primordial myth and post-nuclear apocalypse, accompanied with a melodramatic voiceover: "They penetrated my eyes … I needed to find an explanation … So I peered in their nests … That was my downfall …" The film is a flickering collage of naff B-movie sequences overlaid with a faded soundtrack. This week's new exhibitions
The true story is, as often, less melodramatic. The Times Literary Supplement
Keiko rose her eyebrows, waiting for Anji to skip the melodramatics and get to the point.
It's from a theatrical point of view that she still loves teen angst for its poker-faced combination of melodramatic sincerity and unintended cringe humour.
Minorities, especially ethnic minorities, are used to authenticate the affective, melodramatic component of contemporary narratives.
I'm sure the music has become less irritatingly melodramatic as well. Times, Sunday Times
He returned to characters who offered identification even though it was mostly via melodramatic exaggeration.
They've matured, shedding the preoccupation with teen angst that might previously have led them to be perceived as melodramatic.
Emotionally honest and socially resonant, it transcends the melodramatic cliches of prison drama to explore the relationship between a mother and daughter and the corrosive nature of the penal system.
This is a subversive comedy dressed up as a melodramatic thriller about money, sex and revenge.
What was outstanding was the way the entire film was knit together with enough play of emotions without becoming melodramatic.
Again, there is no denying that the stage arts want to dazzle, too: The vocal pyrotechnics in opera, repetitive turns in ballet, or melodramatic breakdowns in plays all result in "ta-da" moments that the audience rewards with applause. A Circus Not Worth Flipping Over
I had to put up with all these melodramatic old prunes (not just older people, but people of my own age as well) saying that my life was over, and oh, i would never be able to do my degree and get a good job, and oh, it is such a shame!
Cinnamon sensed the others were growing intolerant with his melodramatics, however genuine.
I have pressing business in Philadelphia and precious little time to waste on her melodramatics.
a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea
The average, mainstream American feature deals with grief by employing a mixture of histrionics and melodramatic manipulation.
There is an eerily Victorian postscript to this unhappy tale, almost too melodramatic to be true.
Perhaps you think me melodramatic, or even histrionic.
LJ on Fr. Moloney's melodramatic malarkey lome on Do you think "Consent is Sexy"? Pope Benedict XVI
Unintended silliness creeps steadily in, finally swamping us in a lumpenly melodramatic climax. Times, Sunday Times
an attitude of melodramatic despair
It's a bit on the melodramatic side. The Sun
These explore intensities of pain and emotion with melodramatic vigour and yet no soap character ever swears properly.
On the plus side there are some characters to really care about: on the minus, an uneasy mood that veers between serious and melodramatic.
The language is a bit melodramatic. Times, Sunday Times
There are no melodramatic trills or fluting crescendos in her everyday speech.
Folks, give a break to your sob serials and melodramatic movies this Sunday and stay hooked to Discovery as an extinct tiger comes to life.
You might say that Maddin directs in a genre all his own, remaking melodramatic movies that never existed.
Their efforts are commendable, but the film's melodramatic story is heavy labour for viewers. Times, Sunday Times
The performances are polished and that Bahamas setting is delicious, but the melodramatic plot twists and sentimentality will wear you down. Times, Sunday Times
His only saving grace is his undying belief in the melodramatic.
It's cheesy, hokey, melodramatic and superficial.
The film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify.
His only saving grace is his undying belief in the melodramatic.
For God's sake," Michael said melodramatically, "Whatever you do, don't look down.
You would expect to see those kinds of stories on a melodramatic TV drama.
It is full of moral speechifying and erudite detail and has a convoluted plot replete with melodramatic deaths and wonderful recoveries and coincidences.
The cheese content is certainly high, but it is hard not to perform these songs without an element of melodramatics. Times, Sunday Times
His Albrecht was impetuous and fierce tempered, clearly in love with Giselle, and his final scene was simple but deeply felt, and avoided extraneous melodramatics.
The editing is swift but unobtrusive and the images are crisp and glossy, while the blatantly phony sets provide the perfect backdrop for both McKinney's chipper deadpan and the hyper-theatrical melodramatics of his costars.
But while Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet turned in melodramatic, cornball performances, Linney's was powerful and shocking.
The acting is purposefully melodramatic and adds to the satirical atmosphere that runs through each scene.
I gave a mirthless laugh - of course, Jay and I hardly acknowledged each other as friends so perhaps I was being too melodramatic over this.
He does a lot of gritty dark melodramatic flicks where hundreds of guys get shot down in crazy action scenes, then all the good guys die horribly in a tragic ending.
One was an attempt at exorcism, the other a rather more practical if overly melodramatic way of making the pain go away.
Africanized honey bees - melodramatically labeled "killer bees" - are the result of honey bees brought from Africa to Brazil in the 1950s.
It has produced films and television movies ranging from those excellent as both drama and history, like Sunrise at Campobello (1960) about Franklin Roosevelt's pre-presidency confrontation of his polio to the purely fictional and melodramatic Sally Hemings (2000), based on a novel about Thomas Jefferson's real but largely undocumented relationship with a slave. Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and The Actor JFK (and Jackie) Wanted To Play Him
It is conspicuously silly in places, with a chorus of Belfast millies incongruously inserted into the midst of the classical melodramatic and stylised family angst.
The repetitions, sudden shifts in direction and melodramatic flourishes fit neatly into the frantic pace of the contemporary dance beat.
Melodramatic, we aimed at looks we didn't quite achieve: our hair a bit astray, our hems a bit uneven.
A frustrated thespian, he enjoyed delivering long-winded, hyperbolic, and melodramatic speeches that rolled off his tongue in a rich bass voice.
Too often, these series are overblown and melodramatic, populated by gigantic, tentacled demons and screeching, white-haired ghosts, telling the same formulaic stories over and over again.
Most of the ‘big’ scenes take place off-screen, and while that approach avoids melodramatics, it also avoids dramatics too.
Most of the ‘big’ scenes take place off-screen, and while that approach avoids melodramatics, it also avoids dramatics too.
The audio is solid, although the voice acting is overdone and melodramatic.
So the melodramatic passions, the obsessions and the compulsions, seemed to arrive by ambush, like a sucker punch.
She pantomimed hurt, placing her free hand melodramatically on her breast.
It would be in the hands of most directors, but Moretti doesn't allow melodramatic excess to infiltrate his story.
Here it was thought his broad fun, rustic waggery, and curious mastery of provincial dialect might admirably contrast with the melodramatic intensity, and the homely, but touching pathos of which in so eminent a degree he was the master. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
All of this feigned rankle and melodramatic outrage!
The child is brought up in the collective enactment of larger heroic narratives, valorising icons of goodness personified while debating complex issues of nationhood, law and economic disparity through melodramatic tales.
It starts out OK, with a portentous and intriguing set up, but gets steadily cheesier and more melodramatic, until the author pulls out a genuine deus ex machina for the ending.
At this level, the book is remarkably sober, eschewing the melodramatic and avoiding definitive conclusions.
He flung my gift melodramatically across the room.
Characters disappear inexplicably and there is much melodramatic action, with farce never far off.
She handles the final monologue tastefully, without slipping into vomitous, melodramatic overkill.
Now, I'm no fan of her often melodramatic and always glurgy talk show, but she's put some pretty strong titles in the limelight in the past, including works by Toni Morrison, Wally Lamb and Anita Shreve. Soap Oprah

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