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Recent Examples of melodrama
Paredes and Almodóvar formed a consummate partnership that heightened the melodrama in his movies.
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Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
It’s become a little lost in the ongoing melodrama around Real Madrid: the Champions League humbling, the emotional outpour from late victories, and the uncertainty over Carlo Ancelotti’s future as head coach.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
While there is room for some interpersonal conflict and drama between characters, this isn’t a melodrama like so many other medical dramas.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Fey, Fisher, and Wigfield are too often unwilling or unable to engage with meaningful melodrama.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
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Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
It’s become a little lost in the ongoing melodrama around Real Madrid: the Champions League humbling, the emotional outpour from late victories, and the uncertainty over Carlo Ancelotti’s future as head coach.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
While there is room for some interpersonal conflict and drama between characters, this isn’t a melodrama like so many other medical dramas.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Fey, Fisher, and Wigfield are too often unwilling or unable to engage with meaningful melodrama.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
Noun
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Before a new hour of comedy hits a Netflix special, it’s been tested in dozens of clubs.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The Emmy-winning comedy has been renewed for a fifth season.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Imaginative touches like that go a long way toward ameliorating the film’s small but not ignorable flaws, such as its tendency toward sentimentality in the last stretch and the gaping spaces where more character-building needs to be to land the plane safely.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Caught up in the sentimentality of his own fame, the Weeknd just can’t heed his own curtain call.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
16 May 2025
Noun
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In Facility Theatre’s new revival of the Irish playwright’s absurdist tragicomedy, the blind and paralyzed character (played by artistic director Kirk Anderson) looks like a slightly steampunk Scrooge, writes Emily McClanathan.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
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The man who shuffled offstage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back onto it.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
9 May 2025
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McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 May 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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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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The endless psychodrama surrounding the national team is merely a symptom of the chaos.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Noun
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The narrative moves between Joan’s ascent through the ranks, including a love story as explosive as a rocket launch, and a mid-decade disaster reminiscent of the Challenger tragedy.—
Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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Saar says the phrase refers to those seeking to export violence beyond the Middle East to places like America, making the D.C. shooting much more than a local tragedy.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2025
Noun
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This is problematic for adults assessing credibility of young children because legal practitioners pay special attention to the level of children’s emotionality when testifying.—
Patricia Fersch,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.—
Carrie Wittmer,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Lee’s multi-faceted career has included appearing in musicals and plays as well as TV dramas and films.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Kara, Conrad, and Daniel, do either of you want to speak to the different uphill battle that straight plays face versus musicals in terms of getting audiences in?—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
28 May 2025
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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