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as in sentimentality
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Recent Examples of melodrama
Its film-noir visual palette matches the melodrama implicit in its stories.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
His performance adds a useful air of melodrama and romantic suspense to a play that is often (for better or worse) unfettered.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
When a tragic fall kills one's son, the accident sets both women down a twisty path of guilt, betrayal, melodrama and more death.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
As distanced from melodrama as possible, her performance is one of internalized grief.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
His performance adds a useful air of melodrama and romantic suspense to a play that is often (for better or worse) unfettered.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
When a tragic fall kills one's son, the accident sets both women down a twisty path of guilt, betrayal, melodrama and more death.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
As distanced from melodrama as possible, her performance is one of internalized grief.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
Noun
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He will next be seen in the British comedy horror film The Scurry.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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And as their characters get pulled deeper into the criminal underworld, the comedy heightens in direct proportion to the violence.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Is his tendency to scorn sentimentality on sight a put-on or a character flaw?—
Rhoda Feng,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2025
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The piano score can hit the sentimentality too hard.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 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
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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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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 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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About Town Indie Rock As Father John Misty, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Tillman stages albums as little psychodramas.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice is tantalizing but gradually appears to be more like teasing misdirection as the movie shifts into psychodrama gear.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In the first section of the book, Franklin repeatedly brings historical analysis, primary sources and Anne Frank’s writing into juxtaposition with each other in a way that both illuminates Anne Frank as an individual and the larger tragedy of the Holocaust.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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The case was the first to establish a link between toxic waste in the atmosphere and birth defects, and the show follows the story of four mothers dealing with the tragedy.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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If the past 50 years of scores were all about boundless emotionality, these newer scores are pulsing and discordant — closer to Steve Reich or Karlheinz Stockhausen than European Romantic composers like Beethoven or first-generation Americans like Leonard Bernstein.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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As a writer, however, Ryan wants to keep a balance between her characters’ passion and emotionality.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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Life imitated art on the set of The Sound of Music, the beloved musical that debuted in movie theaters on March 2, 1965.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Basics On the original Smash, the Marilyn musical is called Bombshell.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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