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Example sentences for: melodramas

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Not to take anything away from his movie--it's a lovely work--but Almodóvar arrived as a world-class director 15 years ago, when his silly, campy, and impassioned melodramas were like joyous dances on Gen.
You may well be more baffled by the appeal of the colorful musical comedies and violent shoot-em-ups than you would be in the West, but the emotion of the melodramas and romantic adventure stories of India’s cultural and historic past have considerable curiosity value for a rainy afternoon.
The plot twists are dismissed as hackneyed, borrowed from Cold War thrillers and courtroom melodramas.
We're actually in England circa the late 1950s and the '60s, when a studio called Hammer Films was churning out cheap but ritzy-looking Gothic melodramas.
Their melodramas own the networks and have turned their nymphs-- Dawson's Creek 's Katie Holmes, Party of Five 's Jennifer Love Hewitt, Felicity 's Keri Russell--into superstars.