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Example sentences for: melodramas

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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.
We see it in the ghosts and doppelgängers who populate the melodramas of Amy Tan and her imitators.
The plot twists are dismissed as hackneyed, borrowed from Cold War thrillers and courtroom 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.
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.