Thesaurus results for PSYCHODRAMA

psychodrama

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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

Elia Kazan’s 1955 adaptation of East of Eden is a bold prestige melodrama of the sort Hollywood rarely makes these days.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2026
Ulysses Terrero directed the clip, which captures Latin melodrama at its steamiest and is now a bonafide streaming hit.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of melodrama

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Schweiger is a German actor and filmmaker who debuted in the tragicomedy Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (1997).

— Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of tragicomedy

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The best way to get plugged in is by seeing a show in the Aurora Theatre, where the town’s resident theater company puts on everything from Broadway-style musicals to intimate dramas and comedies.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026
Fox News personality Kat Timpf unveiled a secret to fans at her comedy show over the weekend.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of comedy

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School Girls isn’t a tragedy, but its antiheroine, and the world that shaped her, just might break your heart.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026
The attorneys for an Annunciation Catholic School shooting victim's family say YouTube could have prevented the tragedy, and a civil lawsuit is being considered.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of tragedy

Noun

The song, featured in the 1934 musical comedy Bright Eyes, describes a journey to a fantasy land made of sweets.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2026
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, meanwhile, is Parton’s 1982 musical comedy with Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise.

— Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of musical comedy

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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

That’s namely all the interlude chapters — police reports, 911 calls, courtroom transcripts, newspaper clippings, and scientific research into the telekinetic gene that collectively teases a larger world.

— Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
This distasteful interlude cuts back to Reacher and Green continuing to interrogate Ahlquist.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of interlude

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