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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Why does she have to turn everything into a melodrama ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Few events this century have rivaled the sinking of the Titanic for sheer melodrama .
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Hale met in the hogan with committee members and talked for more than three hours about the melodrama .
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In many respects Griffith was a conventional story-teller and melodrama was always really the framework of his themes.
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In theory, a star-driven period melodrama with top-notch production values should have been an attractive proposition for distributors.
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Recounted with even a trace of melodrama , this story would read like a soap opera.
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Some of the description is superb, but the climbing remains unconvincing, slipping too easily into melodrama and strange terminology.
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This has been a constant melodrama .
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This was Abba's tour de force, a brilliantly structured melodrama which put Faltskog's fragile, emotional vocal centre stage.