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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychodrama

Noun

This is a melodrama of malicious secrets and manipulative lies that may lead to divorce, desertion and even death.

— Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
They’ve been assembled for a brain-breaker of a misfired melodrama, at first darkly amusing, before plunging headlong into soap opera-style twists and a general sense of heavy depression that no one can shake.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 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

Noun

Eisenberg’s playful comedy, which just premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, is sometimes a musical and occasionally a thriller.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2026
When Fyodor drags himself on the floor, begging for forgiveness or a bit more money to play roulette, the gesture straddles the line between humor and intense discomfort — veering into cringe comedy.

— Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of comedy

Noun

The Broadway musical recouped its $17 million capitalization in 2024 (and the tour recouped in 2025), and has since grossed more than $175 million.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
This rebellious new musical is about growing up, discovering yourself, and refusing to live by others’ expectations.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of musical

Noun

Ditka has been losing contemporaries since July of 1964, when Willie Gallimore’s Volkswagen swerved and rolled, killing Gallimore and Bo Farrington in a training camp tragedy.

— Dan Pompei, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
For other families quietly and often despairingly living with similar problems of addiction and mental illness involving their children, the tragedy is an unnerving, looming specter — a worst-case scenario made real.

— Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of tragedy

Noun

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
On Halloween night in 1995, the musical comedy aired on TV for the first time, as part of a celebration on VH1.

— Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 26 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

Definition of monodrama

Noun

Additionally, the frequent interludes of dialogue from the Idlewild movie released at the same time don’t add much to the proceedings, and function as more of an inside joke than anything else.

— John Hugar, SPIN, 26 Aug. 2026
It Brizé’s fourth time in competition at Venice after the Fipresci Prize winning A Woman’s Life as well as Another World and romantic interlude Out of Season, starring Guillaume Canet and Rohrwacher.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026