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melodrama
1. It’s an addictive melodrama that creates more and
2. Dave can’t quite get a handle on where they are; is he simply shocked by the melodrama? Is it sympathy or empathy or just plain old fashioned recklessness in the face of mortality?
3. ” He quirks his eyebrows and adds, with a touch of melodrama, “To decide our fate
4. „You"re on," chirped Jon cheerfully, snapping the tension and stopping a slither into melodrama
5. And for every True Blood fan out there, there still exists a hardcore vampire fan that is just bored by the incessant melodrama
6. He had performed his last scene, in the lurid melodrama of his life; and the curtain had fallen over his performance on the human stage
7. ’ She’d seen a movie, deadpan melodrama, that‘s the most
8. My ten years of melodrama came to the end in this way, and then the beginning of new life, new friends, new place and new world
9. I think a bit of powder here and there would suit her up nicely – for the gas-lit hue of the melodrama
10. Since I was used to Celia's fondness for melodrama, I simply looked on, somewhat stunned because her method seemed to be getting results
11. In China, this is probably serious melodrama
12. I am not consoled by the false, written-up, Drury Lane aspects of that event, which is neither drama, nor melodrama, nor tragedy, but the exposure of arrogant folly
13. It was something of a stunt to bring our brittle, increasingly surly New Wave pop to a high school hop at the head of a bill that included the rock and roll of Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds’s Rockpile and the cartoon junkie melodrama of Mink DeVille
14. It sang more chillingly and with a lot less melodrama than it reads, borne on the echo of some Conway Twitty tune
15. Charles Dickens made his first American public reading in New York that year, and while the tragedy that befell John’s second family did not quite have the sting of one of Dickens’s social commentaries, it certainly would have stretched the credibility of a late Victorian melodrama
16. I think this melodrama was partly inspired by watching Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, which contains a nightmarish carousel scene
17. One evening, tired with his experimenting, and not being able to elicit the facts he needed, he left his frogs and rabbits to some repose under their trying and mysterious dispensation of unexplained shocks, and went to finish his evening at the theatre of the Porte Saint Martin, where there was a melodrama which he had already seen several times; attracted, not by the ingenious work of the collaborating authors, but by an actress whose part it was to stab her lover, mistaking him for the evil-designing duke of the piece
18. The young girl watched her cousin as he cut his sippets, with as much pleasure as a grisette takes in a melodrama where innocence and virtue triumph
19. The actors in these early movies had mostly come from the stage, where melodrama called for big movements and gestures; this style suited the movies just fine
20. What! because it would have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and all that for the sake of an old wretch of an applethief who, most assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, and
21. He read the bones and they were eloquent of melodrama and adventure, a thing he did not ordinarily connect with ladies, even though Mrs
22. The largest single bolt of green-bolt lightning jumped around in the sky, picked its spot, and rammed itself feet-first into the center of the town, shaking birds from their nests in insane confettis, launching three children into the world two weeks ahead of time, and short-circuiting a hundred conversations by women in storm-darkened homes in mid-gallop on their way through sin and torment and domestic melodrama
23. Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen
24. Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter
25. Some say Sir Robert killed himself, an actor in his own melodrama, and that one day we shall unearth his brooding, lost, and Gothic body and that it was he who killed the children and that his preoccupation with doors and hinges, and more doors, led him, crazed, to study this one species of spider, and wildly plan and build the most amazing door in history, an insane burrow into which he popped to die, before my eyes, thus hoping to perpetuate the incredible Finnegan
26. Father always was a sucker for cheap melodrama, Melodía thought
27. He read the bones and they were eloquent of melodrama and adventure, a thing he did not ordinarily connect with ladies, even though Mrs Brown had the remnants of a pirate’s mustache
28. Monroe is a cannery worker, married to Mae’s brother, and they both look great in their beachwear, but add nothing to the goings-on in this noirish melodrama
29. Theodore Kremer had woven a brand new melodrama around the theme of Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline,” and it had been “stopped” on the ground of impropriety
30. Without her, at the New Theater, the piece is but a gloomy melodrama, and as such it is received by the London public
31. As a play, “The Lady Shore” was mere melodrama, of a somewhat incoherent nature
32. Perhaps if the central character had been imaginary—and it was nearly that—the melodrama would have been all the better for it
33. All London knew that his hanging would quickly follow its decree, and all London, apparently, was determined to see, at least, the first act in the melodrama