Words similar to melodrama

Example sentences for: melodrama

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British playwright David Hare wins praise for adapting Chekhov into colloquial language, though the melodrama of the original is said to remain.
Most critics agree the film is heavy on melodrama, and the father's character is implausibly overbearing.
Minghella comes up with a bleakly sincere ending that's the opposite of what this ironic little melodrama needs.
Those longing, in this suddenly post-Lewinsky era, for more real-life melodrama to watch on television have good news: This third week of sweeps brings plenty of docudramas (one starring Lauren Bacall) and jazzed-up documentaries to slake our thirst for TV-enhanced reality.
The spot is structured as a "baby melodrama"--a problem becoming an apparently insoluble crisis: An elderly baby-sitting granddad is simultaneously bored and apprehensive.