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Recent Examples of melodrama
During a run-through for one of the boat’s many melodramas, a Mississippi sheriff storms in, tipped off that Julie is secretly biracial.
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
As do Liverpool, content to keep racking up the points and avoid the kind of melodramas seen elsewhere.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
The veteran action star is convincing and charismatic as a cop who quits the force to become a crusading Department of Justice prosecutor but is let down by a screenplay that’s prone to bouts of melodrama in and out of the courtroom.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Even though that absolutely would be the thing that’s haunting these doctors (and Dr. Odyssey, to be fair), the trouble is that it’s played with roughly the same amount of melodrama in The Pitt as when a similar story appears in a Ryan Murphy show.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
As do Liverpool, content to keep racking up the points and avoid the kind of melodramas seen elsewhere.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
The veteran action star is convincing and charismatic as a cop who quits the force to become a crusading Department of Justice prosecutor but is let down by a screenplay that’s prone to bouts of melodrama in and out of the courtroom.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Even though that absolutely would be the thing that’s haunting these doctors (and Dr. Odyssey, to be fair), the trouble is that it’s played with roughly the same amount of melodrama in The Pitt as when a similar story appears in a Ryan Murphy show.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
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Now, the comedy about a very eccentric suburban dad (Robinson, obviously) having a little trouble making friends has its first trailer.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
11 Feb. 2025
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Chappelle has also received five Primetime Emmy Awards – three for his Netflix comedy specials Equanimity (2018) and Sticks & Stones (2020), and two for hosting Saturday Night Live (2017 and 2021).—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2025
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The film doesn’t resort to any cliche or sentimentality.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2025
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Constable’s artistic attraction to nature was imbued with sentimentality.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Feb. 2025
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The tragicomedy follows a grieving widower who sets off on an epic quest to find the truth about a mysterious photo left behind by his deceased wife.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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In the international competition, Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot took home the 50,000 Swedish krona ($4,500) prize for his tragicomedy Memoir of a Snail.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 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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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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So is White taking a superficial approach to Thailand, its traditions and its tragedies, or are his insular characters?—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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That applies, too, to the unusual case of the Jews, scattered to the winds and reconvening 2,000 years (and one extraordinary tragedy) later in Israel.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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That is, not only does emotionality sell goods, but emotions themselves have also become commodities.—
Maytal Eyal,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2025
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Sensations abound, but a human audience might struggle to access the same emotionality the Ochi are supposedly able to mine from them.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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There, visitors can catch performances by pop artists like Amy Grant, theatrical stagings of musicals like Hamilton and Kimberly Akimbo, and dances by troupes such as the Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández.—
Cat Sposato,
AFAR Media,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Spanish-language musical, which leads the 2025 Oscar nominations with 13, has come under fire for multiple issues: its depiction of Mexico and transgender identity, and its star Karla Sofía Gascón’s resurfaced, offensive tweets with anti-Muslim, anti-diversity and racist language.—
Kaitlyn Huamani,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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