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Recent Examples of melodrama
His handful of ’80s pictures included some big successes, notably the multiple-Oscar-winning Pollack film Out of Africa, a melodrama set in 1913 Kenya co-starring Meryl Streep.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Panettiere and Britton co-led the beloved musical melodrama for six seasons, beginning when Panettiere was only 22.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
This was authentic teen melodrama, in a glorious time for pop radio, fitting into the airwaves alongside Prince and Whitney and Bon Jovi and LL Cool J.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
With its calculatedly severe form, the film both distills and extends melodrama to avant-garde extremes.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Panettiere and Britton co-led the beloved musical melodrama for six seasons, beginning when Panettiere was only 22.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
This was authentic teen melodrama, in a glorious time for pop radio, fitting into the airwaves alongside Prince and Whitney and Bon Jovi and LL Cool J.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
With its calculatedly severe form, the film both distills and extends melodrama to avant-garde extremes.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
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And the first person viewers saw on-screen this week was Patterson’s fellow newcomer Jeremy Culhane—a fresh face to those who have never encountered social-media clips of his impish appearances on the niche comedy streamer Dropout.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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Brennan is known for his signature style of colorful windbreakers and comedy, focusing on growing up in the Midwest in a family of eight children with a doctor for a father, despite having no health insurance himself.—
Jillian Sederholm,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Oct. 2025
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Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Walsh and Sherman both recognized Lupino’s superior intellect and resistance to unearned sentimentality.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Sep. 2025
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This was the run that was supposed to make up for that tragicomedy of errors.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The longtime friends put their chemistry to good use in the latest revival of Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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Arpino’s interest in popular culture, athletic technique, and unapologetic emotionalism has found a new audience in the post-Balanchine world.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 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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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 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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After the tragedy, Gibson's attorney said the actor had since rehomed his beloved mastiffs.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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There are too many stories, too many tragedies, and too many silver linings to properly detail, especially as the national media spotlight has long moved on to the next crisis.—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
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Getty Images In the study, researchers crafted job adverts that called for a candidate high in one of six personality factors including honesty-humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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But the semi-romance that should elevate the plot to a higher level of emotionality has, instead, the opposite effect.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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The iconic musical played at the Bellevue for three years in the mid-1960s.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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