Words similar to melodramas

Example sentences for: melodramas

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

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.
We see it in the ghosts and doppelgängers who populate the melodramas of Amy Tan and her imitators.
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.
If you think that sounds a little lurid, that's the whole point: These were ripe metropolitan melodramas served up for the genteel piano parlors of the suburbs.
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.