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Recent Examples of melodrama
Chihiro and Hiruhiko were engaging in the sort of passionate but chaste dude-bro melodrama that takes place only in shōnen manga.
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Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Lerman — or rather his face — became synonymous with a type of teenage melodrama.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
The first film Lee made with Denzel Washington, this melodrama’s music and performances outshine its drama, and Lee took considerable heat for some allegedly stereotypical views of Jewish music executives.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
Spiritually descended from shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Teen Wolf adds the right amount of melodrama and humor to its silly premise.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Lerman — or rather his face — became synonymous with a type of teenage melodrama.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
The first film Lee made with Denzel Washington, this melodrama’s music and performances outshine its drama, and Lee took considerable heat for some allegedly stereotypical views of Jewish music executives.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
Spiritually descended from shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Teen Wolf adds the right amount of melodrama and humor to its silly premise.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
Noun
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This 2023 crime comedy also stars Poorna Jagannathan, Richard Kind, Lil Rel Howery and more.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The 2008 comedy became one of Rogen's most beloved features and has since been talked about for years regarding a sequel.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Rotwood approvingly sees no such sentimentality in Wednesday.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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There's a time to think like a minimalist, and a time to let sentimentality win.—
Tessa Cooper,
Southern Living,
19 Aug. 2025
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Its jacket copy states, With a voice somewhere between Violeta Parra and Bad Bunny, Paulina Flores paints a portrait of a city, a generation, and its distinctive characteristics in this tragicomedy.—
Diana Arterian
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Told with a classic heist structure and hints of tragicomedy, the story follows an ordinary government employee obsessed with winning the Melate lottery.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 July 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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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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Watts said the child welfare agency also will maintain collaboration with public health officials, law enforcement and treatment providers to prevent tragedies connected to fentanyl and other drugs.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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Here is the emphasis on the hardscrabble beginnings and obstacles to be overcome, here is the recognition of a truly raw but once-in-a-lifetime talent that converts the nonbelivers, here are the early wins and the training montages and the tragedies and the comebacks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 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 original musical follows a gay window dresser, Luis Molina, who shares a prison cell in Argentina with Marxist political prisoner Valentin Arregui.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
2 Sep. 2025
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Many of Lloyd Webber’s detractors believe his musicals have about the same depth as a scrape.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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