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Example sentences for: melodramas

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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.
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.
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.
We see it in the ghosts and doppelgängers who populate the melodramas of Amy Tan and her imitators.