Word Finder - melodrama

definition

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

definition

A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks

example

the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".

definition

Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

His Pygmalion (1775) is a melodrama without singing.

Most of his work is firmly set in his native county and combines melodrama with earthly realism.

The blue collar melodrama focuses on the every man or every woman story.

Vanished, Hunter said, his voice dripping with mock melodrama.

To end the show, once again showing tremendous versatility, the oldest group presented a Victorian melodrama - THE BLACK HEARTED VILLAIN.

Telenovelas are essentially limited run soap operas that weave melodrama and romance through a series of storylines, some of which touch on cultural themes.

On a picnic they're brought together in the true style of Victorian melodrama.

One of the darkest episodes of German history has been transformed into romantic melodrama.

The cost of this classic Gothic melodrama approached $ 1 million, $ 50 thousand of which was spent on retakes.

At first this story reads like a classic Victorian melodrama, rather reminiscent of a Sherlock Holmes tale.

So Brothers started well as a family melodrama, but took a violent turn far too suddenly to keep me believing in it.

In color it is an unusual crime melodrama with Paris locations.

If this sounds like the plot to a 1950s melodrama, then this is because that is exactly what it is.

A confused melodrama that loses itself in it's own pretentions, but remains memorable for the stunning sets, music and photography.

By Matthew Gregory Lewis again "Timour" is depicted as the conventional tyrant of a gorgeous melodrama, slaying, burning, slaughtering and committing every possible atrocity until checked by a violent death and a poetical climax.

And I fear that this new production of Oden von Horvath 's 1931 melodrama stumbles at both hurdles.

The play pertains to capture passion and genius, but instead descends into melodrama.

He hissed through his teeth, in unconscious imitation of a popular favorite in melodrama, " Him shall she never wed!

Mankiewicz's directorial debut is an old fashioned romantic melodrama with some macabre touches.

Can you tell me if your poetry is lies or lines or bars or notes in an operatic melodrama?

Liane Jose sustains the delicate balances within Anna's mind, never overstepping the mark into caricature or melodrama.

It was so over-the-top like something from a thirties ' melodrama.

Christie Brinkley's quiet separation from her husband of 10 years, Peter Cook, exploded into media melodrama when rumors emerged that Cook had an affair with a then 18-year-old employee of his architecture firm.

Yes, there's some gunfire, drinking, singing, melodrama, good guys and bad guys.