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Example sentences for: melodramatic

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James Caan begins hilariously as Gina's hearty, lunkish father, but then has to get all noble under the weight of the picture's dumb, melodramatic contrivances.
The other story is the love affair between a luckless torch singer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and a luckless ex-fisherman (David Strathairn), in which the two--through a series of melodramatic contrivances that testify to Sayles' lack of ingenuity as a storyteller--end up together with the singer's brilliant, desperately unhappy daughter (Vanessa Martinez) on a remote island, where they're prey to cold, starvation, and drug smugglers with shotguns.
Most critics fault the film on other counts, particularly its languid pacing, stock characters (Nolte plays a seductive handyman), and melodramatic dialogue.
Some politicians' discovered memories are less melodramatic.
Lumet's tempo and staging are just realistic enough to allow you to resent him for melodramatic devices that slicker directors get away with.