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Recent Examples of melodrama
Paredes and Almodóvar formed a consummate partnership that heightened the melodrama in his movies.
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Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
It’s become a little lost in the ongoing melodrama around Real Madrid: the Champions League humbling, the emotional outpour from late victories, and the uncertainty over Carlo Ancelotti’s future as head coach.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
While there is room for some interpersonal conflict and drama between characters, this isn’t a melodrama like so many other medical dramas.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Fey, Fisher, and Wigfield are too often unwilling or unable to engage with meaningful melodrama.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
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Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
It’s become a little lost in the ongoing melodrama around Real Madrid: the Champions League humbling, the emotional outpour from late victories, and the uncertainty over Carlo Ancelotti’s future as head coach.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
While there is room for some interpersonal conflict and drama between characters, this isn’t a melodrama like so many other medical dramas.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Fey, Fisher, and Wigfield are too often unwilling or unable to engage with meaningful melodrama.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
Noun
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The Emmy-winning comedy has been renewed for a fifth season.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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In the early 2000s, Brand was a rising star in the United Kingdom's comedy and media scene, working for the BBC and MTV.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
30 May 2025
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Imaginative touches like that go a long way toward ameliorating the film’s small but not ignorable flaws, such as its tendency toward sentimentality in the last stretch and the gaping spaces where more character-building needs to be to land the plane safely.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Cash Flow And Control Beyond sentimentality, real estate can offer a financial utility that aligns well with multi-generational planning.—
DJ Van Keuren,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The man who shuffled offstage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back onto it.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
9 May 2025
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With a classic heist structure and flashes of tragicomedy, this series, directed by Federico Veiroj and Rodrigo Santos, promises humor and suspense.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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The endless psychodrama surrounding the national team is merely a symptom of the chaos.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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The narrative moves between Joan’s ascent through the ranks, including a love story as explosive as a rocket launch, and a mid-decade disaster reminiscent of the Challenger tragedy.—
Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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Saar says the phrase refers to those seeking to export violence beyond the Middle East to places like America, making the D.C. shooting much more than a local tragedy.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2025
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Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.—
Carrie Wittmer,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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If the past 50 years of scores were all about boundless emotionality, these newer scores are pulsing and discordant — closer to Steve Reich or Karlheinz Stockhausen than European Romantic composers like Beethoven or first-generation Americans like Leonard Bernstein.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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They are also both nominated for best leading actress in a musical at the Tony Awards, airing June 8 from Radio City Music Hall (8 ET/5 PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+).—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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What a treat to come across a musical that recognizes just how extraordinary the ordinary can be.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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