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Meanings of melodrama in English
Dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions.
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Usage of melodrama in English
1
It transforms German history into a gangster melodrama often with surprising exactness.
2
True, the film veers into melodrama and contrivances in the second half.
3
Hindi melodrama with Abraham as a compulsive gambler in need of reform.
4
This seems almost melodramatic; and melodrama is bad enough at Drury Lane.
5
Hopefully soon we will be done with the melodrama and the semaphoring.
6
And my policy was to dissemble, like the man in a melodrama.
7
It was comic opera, but the tinge of melodrama was not absent.
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The potential for melodrama is further mediated by the novel's rigorous structure.
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It was all, when one looked back upon it, the rankest melodrama.
10
His extensive involvement with melodrama was not Fibich's only unusual musical venture.
11
Though the plot was confused, a tremendous atmosphere of melodrama built up.
12
Eileen almost betrayed herself by giggling, as at the real stage melodrama.
13
For melodrama, unlike the more fashionable comedy, gets to grips at once.
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She had been thrilled by a melodrama and pleased by an operetta.
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But the Donnellan melodrama is over and Michael lines out at centrefield.
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The Korean director is at it again with this extraordinarily sinewy melodrama.
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Translations for melodrama
Russian
Spanish
Melodrama through the time
Melodrama across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common