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• La Battaglia di Legnano is a patriotic melodrama with a love triangle theme included.1961 December 12, The Times, p.5 col. F. From the entry love triangle
• In a reference to a hokey stage melodrama of the nineteenth century, he muttered: “What’s next week?1957, Richard Neuberger, quotee, “LBJ Goes for Broke”, in Smithsonian Magazine. From the entry next week, East Lynne
• "The Dairy Maid," an alleged song, is really a recitation; a sort of tabloid sentimental melodrama.1916 September 30, Josephine Hart Phelps, “Drama: The Orpheum”, in Alfred Holman, editor, The Argonaut, volume LXXIX, number 2062, San…. From the entry tabloid
• The nineteenth century acting technique of making points was encouraged by the dramaturgy of the melodramas which dominated the stage.2014, Amy Lehman, Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance, page 21. From the entry points
• While his major plays appear on the surface to have little plot, their subtext is full of overheated romance and melodrama.2012 July 27, Jason Zinoman, “Chekhov's Banana Peel”, in Slate, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2022. From the entry subtext
• “The only plays melo companies perform are melodramas.2012, Bill Thomas, Upstage, Downstage, Cross: An Actor Emerges in Early English 20th Century Theatre, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry melo
• Into this melodrama stepped the American defence secretary, Leon Panetta.2012 September 22, “East Asian rivalry: protesting too much”, in The Economist. From the entry stage whisper
• Unfortunately, the show veers into melodramata when a soused Penny expresses second thoughts to Raj about dumping Leonard.2011 May 20th, Adam H. Kerman, rec.arts.tv, “The Big Bang Theory ‘The Roomate Transmogrification’ (spoilers)”, Message ID. From the entry melodramata
• Don't overdo it, or you may lapse into melodrama.2004, James Scott Bell, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, Penguin, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry on the nose
• At its most basic, this is thunderingly enjoyable Victorian melodrama.1993, Theatre Record, volume 13, numbers 10-19, page 607. From the entry thunderingly
• Part detective story, part gangster, part urban melodrama, Film Noir was identified best by its dark and pessimistic undercurrents.1977, James Monaco, “The Shape of Film History”, in How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and…. From the entry undercurrent
• Fear Eats the Soul is tender and beautiful, a Sirkian melodrama poignantly strung on the social prejudices of race, colour and age.2023 April 9, Anthony Quinn, “Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman – a freewheeling and insightful study of the film-maker’s…. From the entry Sirkian
• In two or three seconds, you have to do enough so that it isn’t melodrama, that it does the job and also it’s your signature.”2007 November 15, Jeff Bond, “Composing scary sounds not for the faint of heart”, in The Hollywood Reporter. From the entry stinger
• Maddin and his dense, crossbred melodramas.2007 May 7, Dennis Lim, “Newfangled Silent Movie With a Bit of Old Barnum”, in New York Times. From the entry magpielike
• There will be calamities, maudlin melodramas, and mucho pathos at Cries & Whispers--A Tragedy Club, which seeks to reverse our town's love of comedy.1989 December 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry mucho
• “If I get sent away, you gotta watch Rose for me.” Scheu did not and would not believe that this display was simply melodramata.1984, Michael Harold Brown, Marked to Die, page 293. From the entry melodramata
• She learned to read and write on the road and between scenes backstage, under the tutorship of the “female heavy” of a melodrama company.1923, Terry Ramsaye, “The Romantic History of the Motion Picture”, in Photoplay, page 41. From the entry melo
• In this way, the play upon melodrama becomes an act of self-deprecation, making fun of one’s already assumed melodramaticity, which makes the show palatable to a wider US audience.2022 October 4, Matthew Bush, “Notes”, in Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of…. From the entry melodramaticity
• The denigration of songfics relies on both their tendency toward melodrama and their central utilization of two source texts resulting in production of less "original" content.2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 130. From the entry songfic
• Set in Amritsar, “Rab” reteams the director Aditya Chopra with Shahrukh Khan, Hindi cinema's reigning superstar, and the two deftly and winningly blend comedy and melodrama.2009 January 2, “Movie Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry deftly
• The action of “The Discovery of Heaven” combines the emotional melodrama of a telenovela with a sequence of events that an insurance lawyer would call acts of God.1997 January 5, Jack Miles, “On a Mission From God”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry act of God
• Melodrama is, just as Frye says, a "dramatic vision," and that vision, in order to be true to itself, demands to be dramatized in 'hypervivid terms.1985, Anne Dhu McLucas, John Milton Ward, Music and Context: Essays for John M. Ward, Dept. of Music, Harvard University, page 147. From the entry hypervivid
• One of the current melodrama uses on the hoardings a four-sheet poster showing the picture of a motherly old woman with a baby in her arms.1900, Fame, page 472. From the entry piping times

Meaning of melodrama

1. noun A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
2. noun A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
3. noun A passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks.

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Questions about melodrama in a sentence

How do you use melodrama in a sentence?

Melodrama is used as a noun. For example: “The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.”

What is a short sentence with melodrama?

“Maddin and his dense, crossbred melodramas.”

What does melodrama mean?

Melodrama means a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.