Words similar to melodrama

Example sentences for: melodrama

How can you use “melodrama” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The conflict is as old as melodrama, but Damon makes the lines sound as if he's hammering them out on the spot.
Minghella comes up with a bleakly sincere ending that's the opposite of what this ironic little melodrama needs.
Reviewers say its conventional use of melodrama cheapens the atrocities of the Yugoslavian war.
The second-place ad-- One Night Stand, Two Weeks Later --evokes a 1940s black-and-white Hollywood melodrama about the wages of illicit love.
One shortcoming: The plot "veers into melodrama that seems a bit outsize for the scale of events that lead to it" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Click here for the Le Divorce page on the Dutton site.)