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

Many of today’s independent cinemas are being curated by a generation that grew up without theatrical access to Hong Kong action cinema, Filipino melodrama, or Taiwanese New Cinema.

— José Salazar, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2026
Inspired by the transient beauty of cherry blossoms, known in Japan as sakura — which is illustrated in their album cover, alongside a dark pegasus — much of the LP also hinges on melodrama.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of melodrama

Noun

Carys made her professional stage debut in June, playing Nina in Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy The Seagull in Brooklyn.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
That’s what appears to be the case with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who first met in 1992 on the set of romantic tragicomedy Jamón Jamón.

— Alessandra De Tommasi, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2026

Definition of tragicomedy

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The comedy icon, who turned 100 in June, was born in the silent era and grew up in Brooklyn devouring double bills at his neighborhood theater in the 1930s.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Julie Klausner would like comedy liberated from the phone and returned to the sitcom.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of comedy

Noun

This rebellious new musical is about growing up, discovering yourself, and refusing to live by others’ expectations.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
The upcoming musical is based on the cult classic 1999 romcom of the same name, which takes Shakespeare’s famous play The Taming of the Shrew and drops its characters straight into a California high school.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of musical

Noun

He was also seen in the second season of Prime Video’s spy drama Citadel and reteamed with his Sing Street director John Carney for Power Ballad, the musical comedy that starred Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas and was released by Lionsgate in the spring.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
The singers appeared in the 1968 musical comedy film Speedway, nine years before Presley died of a heart attack at 42 in August 1977.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Aug. 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