Still, I suppose the tired business man has got to have his little melodrama.

All the acts of this drama will resemble each other, but my own little melodrama must open soon.

That was a tidy little melodrama.

There's even a little melodrama in the middle, reflective perhaps of a time when the Clio also masqueraded as something it was not.

She had cast me in the role of ineffective detective, as often happens in these little melodramas.

Towns once were like improvised little melodramas.

"Our little melodrama, my lady, is drawing to its close."