MELODRAMA in a Sentence
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Example sentences for MELODRAMA, such as:
1. The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.
2. He was behaving like a character in a Victorian melodrama.
3. You are like one of the heroes of those silly melodramas Mother used to be so fond of acting in.
4. Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the preceding evening at the Gaite Theatre.
2. He was behaving like a character in a Victorian melodrama.
3. You are like one of the heroes of those silly melodramas Mother used to be so fond of acting in.
4. Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the preceding evening at the Gaite Theatre.
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Meanings and Examples of MELODRAMA
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melodrama
n. an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
Classic Sentence:
1 Above a marsh red-winged blackbirds chased a crow in a swift melodrama of the air.
2 Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the preceding evening at the Gaite Theatre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU...
3 I was always saying: go to a good instructive film, but do for goodness sake keep away from these melodramas and love films.
4 You are like one of the heroes of those silly melodramas Mother used to be so fond of acting in.
5 Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of thunder, as in the melodramas.
Example Sentence:
1 The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.
2 He was behaving like a character in a Victorian melodrama.
3 But a single touch of contrivance spoils it all. Any time we feel the authors creating coincidence or engineering emotion, making melodrama rather than musical drama.