Look up: melodrama

1. melodrama
   a play with extravagant theatricality, superficial characterization, and predominance of plot and physical action. Example: 'The Pedestrian,' a melodrama by Ray Bradbury, 2m.
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2. melodrama
   [n] - an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
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3. melodrama
   Play or film with romantic and sensational plot elements, often concerned with crime, vice, or catastrophe. Originally a melodrama was a play with an accompaniment of music contributing to the...
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4. melodrama
   A form of drama relying on an unrealistic, exaggerated style, often involving heightened emotion. Melodrama is often despised by critics for its deliberate avoidance of realism, but it can be immensely popular - Titanic (1997), for instance, is pure melodrama, and the so-called Gainsborough melodram...
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5. Melodrama
   Mel`o·dra'ma noun [ French mélodrame , from Greek me`los song + dra^ma drama.] Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment ...
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6. melodrama
   Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra...
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7. melodrama
   noun an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
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8. Melodrama
   • (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which t...
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9. melodrama
   in Western theatre, sentimental drama with an improbable plot that concerns the vicissitudes suffered by the virtuous at the hands of the villainous ... [5 related articles]
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10. melodrama
    melodrama A dramatic presentation marked by heavy use of suspense, sensational episodes, romantic sentiment, and a conventionally happy ending.
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11. melodrama
    A play or story in which the characters´ feelings are extremely overdone in order to render the effect more exciting.
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12. melodrama
    melodrama [Gr.,=song-drama], originally a spoken text with musical background, as in Greek drama. The form was popular in the 18th cent., when its composers included Georg Benda, J. J. Rousseau, and W. A. Mozart, among others. Modern examples of the true music melodrama are found in Richard Strauss'...
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13. Melodrama
    The emphasis of melodramatic presentations is on human emotion, illness and physical hardship. Often the melodrama is critical of social and political climates and mores but can include domestic portrayals which are romanticized. Lucid distinctions exist between good and evil, hero and villain, righ...
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14. Melodrama
    A melodrama was originally and strictly, a species of drama in which the declamation of certain passages was interrupted by music, but since the 19th century the term has come to designate a romantic play or film, generally of a serious character, in which effect is sought by startling incidents, st...
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15. melodrama
    Play or film with romantic and sensational plot elements, often concerned with crime, vice, or catastrophe. Originally a melodrama was a play with an accompaniment of music contributing to the dramatic effect. It became popular in the late 18th century, due to works like Pygmalion (1770), with pieces written by the French philoso...
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16. Melodrama
    (album) Name = Melodrama | Type = Album | Artist = Vibe Tribe | Cover = VT_Melodrama.jpg | Released = November^? 2004| Genre = Psychedelic trance| Length = 72:03| Label = Utopia| Producer = Stas Marniansky<br />Elmar Ivatarov | Last album = | This album = `Melodrama`...
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