Thesaurus results for PSYCHODRAMA

psychodrama

noun

Definition of psychodrama

as in melodrama

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Recent Examples of psychodrama The Tories, as they are known, had descended into a political psychodrama that had delivered four leaders in as many years. — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 12 May 2026 But on a night on which psychodrama only ever felt one mistake away, the mood just about held throughout. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026 The other is a patchy, unpersuasive psychodrama about the underlying motivations and years-later ramifications of an unspeakable act—or, in this case, an unrealized plan to commit an unspeakable act. — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 In exerting this apparent influence, Rubio has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama. — Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for psychodrama

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Noun

Comic portraits, cruel melodrama and humane charity of heartbreaking tendernessexplode onto the teeming streets of Victorian London.

— Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
In bossa nova there was no melodrama, not in the lyrics, and not in the delivery.

— Fernando Gonzalez, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of melodrama

Noun

Paul Howard, the only son of The Three Stooges‘ Moe Howard and the last surviving son of the comedy team’s classic line up – Moe, brothers Curly and Shemp, and Larry Fine – died this week.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2026
Mixing kung fu action, gore, horror and dark comedy, the series takes its cues from vintage Hong Kong martial arts films and from Ghana’s independent filmmaking scene.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of comedy

Noun

Wanted, the new musical from Angelica Chéri and Ross Baum starring Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine, was a virtual sell-out for five previews at the James Earl Jones, grossing $451,014.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026
Alejandro Sanz‘s songs form the foundation of El Alma al Aire, a new musical that builds an original story inspired by his repertoire.

— Franchesca Guim, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of musical

Noun

The musical comedy has earned Moore raves on the festival circuit for her role as a sad suburban homemaker turned anxious aspiring actress in a New Jersey community theater.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Nov. 2026
There’s also the long-running Music of Denali dinner theater, which turns the story of the first successful Denali summit into a musical comedy over a family-style dinner.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of musical comedy

Noun

In her performance of Francis Poulenc’s operatic monodrama La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice), Hannigan turned that problem — and many more — into an advantage with a couple of technological aids.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.

— Thomas Curran, Time, 8 Aug. 2023

Definition of monodrama

Noun

When there must be some interlude of friction or a character needs to be brought low, The Gilded Age’s preferred mechanism is a dinner, ideally a fancy one with a complicated guest list and a variety of logistical obstacles.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Discordant keys fly like daggers while snares trip over bass thuds; there’s a jazzy piano interlude, and then a murderous hard-rock siege razes the mix to the ground.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026