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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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Yet horror movies dramatically outnumber comedies, particularly this year.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2025
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The comedy about journalists entering North Korea was Sony’s prime release circa the time of the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack and leaks, where Pascal’s email exchanges with Scott Rudin, among others, revealed comments many deemed to be racist.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2025
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The original film was also adapted into a musical that opened on Broadway in 2007.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2025
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Wade Hair directs the musical for the theater, 6900 Aloma Ave.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2025
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Kilmer’s passion for performing was fostered early — during an active, adventurous childhood in Chatsworth, Calif., making homemade films and plays alongside his brothers Mark and Wesley — and also shaped by tragedy.—
Kara Warner,
People.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Room Next Door shares the same theme, allowing director Pedro Almodóvar to address Covid-era tragedy, much as directing team Scott McGehee and David Siegel do in The Friend.—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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During the conversation, the actress, who played Tanya in the 2008 musical comedy and reprised her role for the 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia!—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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This touring musical comedy, based on the movie about high school’s social pecking order, is in town for five performances over one weekend only, March 28-30.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
20 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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So, these black holes would produce powerful jets both early and later in their lifetimes, with an interlude in the middle where the jets are either weak or nonexistent.—
David Garofalo,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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Muay Thai is more a motif, here, than a driver of action, as many subsequent boxing interludes tie together multiple storylines.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Psychodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychodrama. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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