melodrama
悲惨剧,闹剧,戏剧,戏剧性
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Definitions
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- : a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
- : melodramatic behavior or events.
- : a romantic dramatic composition with music interspersed.
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Examples
In one very funny scene, Linda weeps helplessly at a Paris train station as a suitor-to-be roars with laughter at her melodrama.
In the meantime, after two years of inconclusive elections and political melodrama, many Israelis will welcome a return to some sense of normalcy.
The book is also a medical melodrama, a family mystery and a meditation on .
In footage from that moment, you can see Barr speak to the commander, after which the commander’s head droops with seemingly intentional melodrama.
Compared with the melodrama of many Masters, Matsuyama’s 1-over-par 73 on Sunday, during which he often had a five-shot lead, might seem an entertaining but not hair-raising Masters finale.
Hitchcock saw human behavior fresh, even in a tired form like melodrama.
The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.
The deviating family melodrama has, thankfully, been replaced by shrewd spycraft.
The man of melodrama was not perceived as a fit for the postwar world.
But Precious—a modern melodrama with a hugely sympathetic HIV-positive teen at its heart, was a hit with critics and audiences.
Beneath this melodrama, the circumstances are recounted at great length, and some halting verses conclude the mournful narration.