The main difference is that rather than centering on a pop-culture-obsessed, melodramatic 30-something doctor (Mindy), it's centered on a pop-culture-obsessed, melodramatic 15-year-old gay kid (Michael).
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The flashbacks to Jessie's big secret are melodramatic and forced.
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They are independent but not proud, sensitive but not melodramatic.
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It is easy to brush aside such talk as melodramatic.
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He'd post Tumblr quotes about me like a melodramatic bitch.
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On both sides, the rhetoric has been melodramatic, even irresponsible.
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" To which, he said, Mr. Oswald replied: "You're being melodramatic.
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" To which, he said, Mr. Oswald replied: "You're being melodramatic.
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At best, there's a weird integrity to Charlesworth's melodramatic vision.
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Like so many blockbusters, it is at times melodramatic and corny.
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The Kardashians are known for their crazy and melodramatic family vacations.
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It's hard to convey this information to anyone without sounding melodramatic.
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In the critics' consensus, the movie's described as "predictable" and "melodramatic."
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Those shows, despite an abundance of melodramatic twists, are essentially comic.
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Maybe it's a little melodramatic, but it does make a point.
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She has flagged moments when his dialogue verges on the melodramatic.
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They hit the same pathetic and melodramatic note over and over.
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It helps that he is a performer with a melodramatic streak.
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"I get self-conscious sometimes about being melodramatic," Jones says via email.
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"Parasite" is more noir than science fiction, farcical until it turns melodramatic.
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Even when the plot becomes preposterously melodramatic, the songs save the day.
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His incredulity was melodramatic, his voice rising in a show of outrage.
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He'd recognize the value of embracing sentiment, even when it seemed melodramatic.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is a tremendously melodramatic and overwrought musical theater composer.
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He also filled them with sex, absurdity and flights of melodramatic emotion.
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It's an absurd and melodramatic declaration, but you know what she means.
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Even in seemingly melodramatic scenes, Handel digs deep and explores multilayered emotions.
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Maria is voluble, shamelessly melodramatic, the heroine of her own private opera.
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I was just singing this melodramatic song to confused and alarmed faces.
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I had a couple sillier more melodramatic working titles for the album.
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Her melodramatic single "Sledgehammer" was released on the soundtrack to Star Trek Beyond.
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Most brands are from fashion houses that are, by nature, pompous and melodramatic.
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Call us melodramatic, but we can't imagine life without a good makeup sponge.
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Rooted deeply in realism, his work is moving without being manipulative or melodramatic.
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We then see the director reflect on whether the scene is too melodramatic.
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Don't worry; it's the end of the week and I'm just being melodramatic.
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Lee would then fill in the bubbles, often with melodramatic, pseudo-Shakespearean tripe.
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I know it sounds melodramatic, but it was a bit like a bereavement.
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And some of the best melodramatic dialogue this side of a Hercules rerun!
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There are choppy breakbeats, melodramatic spoken word interludes and hi-NRG violin samples.
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So how did Riverdale become the melodramatic treat of my post-adolescent dreams?
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If only this score had fewer moments of all-out, frenzied, melodramatic excess.
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The atmosphere is pure camp, of the zany rather than the melodramatic variety.
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Yet John's despair is not so much melodramatic as it is achingly banal.
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At its high points, the show is beautifully uplifting, never saccharine or melodramatic.
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It was so melodramatic, people couldn't help but turn it into a meme.
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What the special loses because of its melodramatic climax it gains from sheer simplicity.
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But what may sound melodramatic in summary becomes, in the execution, gripping and authentic.
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Why settle for black when you can have chartreuse, neon pink or melodramatic purple?
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The first season of Riverdale was delicious, off-the-rails, melodramatic entertainment, so honestly?
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It's weird, surreal, and melodramatic (Sufjan Stevens is the soundtrack!), but dang, it's real.
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But the melodramatic cash handouts are a distraction from the show's more unsettling moments.
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He was drawn to theological stringency, melodramatic all-or-nothings, and obnoxiously proud circularity.
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Then, in moments of intensity, he drew vehemence without a trace of melodramatic excess.
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"She's Leaving Home," a melodramatic domestic saga, flows on a cloud of heavenly strings.
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But were you expecting it in the form of a melodramatic daytime soap opera?
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My father enjoyed how melodramatic they were and I sat and watched with him.
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So I wanted to find this middle ground that wasn't melodramatic, but still noisy.
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Quick glimpses of the show-within-a-show trigger melodramatic surges of string dissonance.
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There's blindness caused by grief, melodramatic plot twists by the bushel, and a cricket narrator.
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It's voyeurism of the mundane, and it's edifying in a way melodramatic entertainment rarely is.
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Soppy, melodramatic piano ballads make an appearance at every Eurovision, and 2016 is the same.
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Mitski's "Your Best American Girl" is a rock song, with a melodramatic, roaring guitar line.
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Black Panther and the message it sent, dug beyond A Star's Born melodramatic love story.
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One final melodramatic away message to say goodbye to the most perfect communications platform ever.
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The show is frequently melodramatic, but it does handle some storylines with tact and realism.
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Mr. Nelson's play isn't nearly as stark or melodramatic as this one appears to be.
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The overwrought lyricism and lack of musical subtlety kept turning the opera melodramatic, even maudlin.
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When the threatening Austrians appear, it's melodramatic and obvious to costume these villains in black.
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It is a quintessentially melodramatic moment, full of outsize emotions and pitched to near hysteria.
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Unfortunately for my melodramatic preteen self, you were also my first and worst unrequited love.
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Mr. Parks's photographs departed from popular media's typically romanticized, melodramatic or judgmental view of crime.
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The plot is full of melodramatic bustle, but its wheels spin without gaining much traction.
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Having your life story turned into a melodramatic montage narrated by Bob Costas. Yes. Exactly.
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This video is making fun of a melodramatic, frankly ridiculous viral sound bite on TikTok.
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We needed to not be too melodramatic about it while not making it sexy, ever.
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On television, mysteries get solved, relationships start and end, and soaps remain frothy and melodramatic.
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But true to its title, "Ordinary Love's" true subject is the mundane, not the melodramatic.
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I often take something others might see as small and blow it out into melodramatic proportions.
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Meyer and Neel mine their subjects' melodramatic role-playing for the more therapeutic aspects of performance.
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Bernthal gravelly voice and thoughtful delivery continue to help uplift even the most melodramatic Frank lines.
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Elena Gilbert, will return to the CW's melodramatic playground of the undead for one final visit.
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"So much of the acting is melodramatic," he says of his interactions in the real world.
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But, it needs to be said that some of the orgasm scenes were a tad melodramatic.
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Rest assured, your interest in the most melodramatic television event since ABC's Revenge is not misplaced.
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I do — and sometimes I'm still just as melodramatic as back in the middle school days.
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As the song ends fireworks shoot into the air, leaving behind a cloud of melodramatic smoke.
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Not to be melodramatic, but all of the government programs we depend on would be hurt.
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Overtly melodramatic lyrics, arpeggiated acoustic guitar, names like 'Your Eyes Are Bleeding' – she's got it nailed.
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What's more, though these NFC-related statements may sound melodramatic, some of them had broad appeal.
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" Apel wrote gothic ghost stories about "aristocratic families enduring melodramatic plot twists in isolated, haunted castles.
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Perhaps I'm being sacrilegious, but the lengthy melodramatic cut-scenes often has me rolling my eyes.
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The obstacles to contentment in Stephen McCauley's "My Ex-Life" are less melodramatic and more internal.
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The series is ostensibly built on putting its characters in incredibly melodramatic and increasingly ridiculous situations.
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Neither were secure enough in the virtuosic passages; Mr. Ball was particularly melodramatic in his acting.
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Months ago, if anyone had said this, I would have laughed at them for being melodramatic.
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Not to be melodramatic, but in that spirit, here's some dispatches from the free press for you.
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Even my screamo band in high school informs a lot of how melodramatic my music is now.
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Some people who sympathise with the Uighur cause say its stories are sometimes thinly sourced and melodramatic.
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It has everything you'd expect from the genre: equippable gear, lots of battles, and a melodramatic story.
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Lynch allows his grief to be unruly and melodramatic, toeing the line of comedy without crossing it.
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Their acting credits extend to appearances in India's melodramatic television soaps, as well as several television ads.
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Even the emotional storyline, so often overdeveloped and melodramatic in films that focus on women, is muted.
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"Slayer A.D.," directed by the aforementioned Allerdyce, albeit melodramatic at times, took on a beautiful, meditative tone.
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But there was understandable, if melodramatic, speculation that the 84-year-old died from a broken heart.
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Some critics, even at the time it was first published, considered the book contrived and overly melodramatic.
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I'm unashamed to admit that their melodramatic antics may have a profound effect on my mental state.
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No matter what Biticon says, her dad has a response that is equal parts melodramatic and hilarious.
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It was an (often angsty or melodramatic) stream of consciousness that was meant for your closest friends.
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In her early career, Coon was often cast in melodramatic roles, such as Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie.
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In case you couldn't tell from my only somewhat melodramatic introduction, the Pouch is a big accessory.
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Mr. McGuire nimbly folds all these melodramatic developments into his story as it hurtles toward its conclusion.
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The flat tone of the writing keeps the story from being melodramatic — it keeps excess at bay.
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Her delivery is neither hysterical nor melodramatic as she envisions her own corpse in physically graphic terms.
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The story has its slow spots and melodramatic excesses — did there really need to be an avalanche?
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She offers the simple dignity of a true martyr, not the melodramatic piety of the self-martyred.
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A bit melodramatic, sure, but it definitely conjures the beach from LOST in a lot of ways.
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He harps too much on simplistic sequences; the ears tire of melodramatic augmented triads in the orchestra.
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It is characterized by an insistent lack of naturalism, its almost lurid color and its melodramatic theme.
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It's all the intimacy and turbulence of sex wrapped up in one melodramatic Gen X teen anthem.
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And the answer is: a little sappy, occasionally melodramatic, and surprisingly intent on developing an elaborate backstory.
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And I've witnessed the cycle of hyperbolic liberal hopes followed by melodramatic liberal despair too many times.
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The driving instructor whose encouragement each time you stalled amounted to no more than a melodramatic sigh?
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It was like Grand Theft Auto except it took itself and its melodramatic, sad sack hero very seriously.
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Although some critics found it melodramatic, it earned $160 million worldwide and helped make Pitt a global star.
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Sex is dramatic, even melodramatic, yet its drama is not sensual; it removes bodily urges from the mix.
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It’s unabashedly melodramatic and over the top with the largest, most ambitious sense of scale imaginable.
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Most of the music I listened to discussed mental health, albeit in an often melodramatic or metaphorical way.
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This may sound melodramatic, but if it does it is only my inadequacy to say what I mean.
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Yet his back-to-the-future encounter with his sensational and melodramatic past might become his Achilles' heel.
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In its telling, Europe was liberated by squads of melodramatic, heroic archetypes on a high-stakes achievement hunt.
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Not to be too melodramatic, but when you have acne, it can sometimes feel like you're all alone.
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It may sound melodramatic, but the future of democracy hangs in the balance as these parallel dramas unfold.
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I do wish he'd been less reverent, since many of those words now sound tin-eared and melodramatic.
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They are also cautionary tales of larger-than-life individuals complete with tragic or at least melodramatic flaws.
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Carnival Row appears to be a fantasy-infused, melodramatic parable about prejudice and oppression... just with magical creatures.
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But even they feel sudden and not wholly explored, and the peak emotional moments verge on the melodramatic.
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The tension of the series thus far culminates in this melodramatic apex, and the episode does not disappoint.
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It is consistently shocking and ever beautiful, forever shifting my aesthetic tastes toward melodramatic opera and gourmet cooking.
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Mr. Dorsey's drawn-out delivery, with its melodramatic pauses, undercuts the weight of what he has to say.
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But melodramatic as it all is, one thing is for sure: They all knew we wouldn't stop watching.
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Since these are all grand fables, it's only fitting that Radiohead pull out their most melodramatic, exaggerated performances.
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Melodramatic and demanding of both time and patience, it will not accommodate you, your life, or your precious time.
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I could see why people thought it was funny, because I'm pretty melodramatic when I'm upset (or in general).
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Melodramatic "crying and dying" tales are one of the most enduring forms of popular entertainment genres since ancient Greece.
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The actor's statement is melodramatic and evasive, but hides a nugget of truth amid all the "Poor me" sentimentality.
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Fittingly for Lindsay, it's basically a melodramatic teenage rom-com distilled into a tight three minutes and 36 seconds.
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For literary women, such as Marguerite Duras and Jean Rhys, drinking was seen as weak, melodramatic or self-indulgent.
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As a movie, it's unwieldy, with melodramatic speeches and heavy-handed moments that slow down the initially compelling story.
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Samsung's melodramatic commercial features Medina as a lonely surfer who needs messages of encouragement flashing up beneath his feet.
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How fitting the episode begin with a wink to the more straightforward and melodramatic film that inspired the series.
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From then on, "Reparations" fully commits to a melodramatic style in its portrayal of people caught in moral quicksands.
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I was getting really reflective while driving into this…I don't want to say abyss because that sounds melodramatic.
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This suicide is far from the only tragedy in the book, which even so never veers toward the melodramatic.
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Yet I think it's a mistake to keep reading Miller as melodramatic; that's what he was growing away from.
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There are squalls of intrigue and a melodramatic cloudburst or two, but nothing that threatens to spoil the festivities.
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There are serious, melodramatic moments involving death and destiny, but also lighthearted scenes starring police mascots in dog costumes.
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"Saturday Night Fever" staggers beneath its melodramatic subplots, but thanks to the percolating score the whole movie feels choreographed.
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"'Grey's Anatomy' is more of a melodramatic romance rather than a medical show," ophthalmologist Dr. Ross Kopelman told Insider.
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Antoine Laurain — a Parisian novelist in his 40s, splendidly droll and noncommittal — declined to take up the melodramatic scenario.
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It's a good song — melodramatic and insistent, like any good pop hit — but we have yet to see the video.
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"That is too melodramatic," John Roos, U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2009-2013 and founding partner at Geodesic Capital, said.
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The same person also suggested that Teigen was "being overly melodramatic" when she opened up about suffering from postpartum depression.
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Often, teen shows are sexier, shinier, and far more melodramatic than what the average real-life 16-year-old experiences.
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The doctor (Gerald McRaney) doesn't succumb to this melodramatic speech (delivered with brilliant sincerity by Ventimiglia), but he smiles, inspired.
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Harrington speculates that the humor inherent in drink-slapping lies in the fact that it's patently melodramatic, yet seemingly harmless.
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Imhof's performance Sex is dramatic, even melodramatic, yet its drama is not sensual; it removes bodily urges from the mix.
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I was melodramatic and stupid, but my awful verse is telling: labor is inextricable from time, and time from mortality.
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Iceland's melodramatic scenery frames the graceful, naked form of artist November C.Y. Wong in a new photo series titled Hér.
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Gaslight may be a bit melodramatic for the tastes of many modern audiences, but your grandparents will probably dig it.
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" Mocking her melodramatic expression in another photo, she captioned it: "When the @uber wait goes from 3 to 8 mins.
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The book is an essential historical source (which Herman Melville used when writing "Moby-Dick") masquerading as a melodramatic potboiler.
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One night, after reading from Soft Targets to our students, the poems struck me as melodramatic and dated, hysterical even.
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The one involving Strasser is romantic and not in any way implausible, but it pushes things in a melodramatic direction.
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No longer buried in maximalism synths, chuggy basslines, and melodramatic chords the song has been stripped to its bare essentials.
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Equating these two disasters may sound absurdly melodramatic to some; we'll see how it seems in a couple of years.
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It even dared to include yet another gay man as a lead character in Sean Hayes's melodramatic Jack (Sean Hayes).
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This After School Special has nothing to do with the old ABC series of melodramatic coming-of-age television movies.
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As in the book, the March sisters are intellectually curious, avid readers and artistically inclined, eagerly performing Jo's melodramatic plays.
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And Atwood's sheer assurance as a storyteller makes for a fast, immersive narrative that's as propulsive as it is melodramatic.
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In a decade that often felt confusing, melodramatic, and messy, Jane's heroic effort to sort things out felt positively aspirational.
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Lloyd Webber's musicals lean toward the melodramatic, rebuking a broader trend in musical theater that valued stories about regular people.
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It wasn't melodramatic like Dawson's Creek, which saw students hooking up with teachers and having visions of their dead siblings.
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Don't even get me started on the melodramatic, so-far-up-their-own-ass-they're-coming-out-their-faces statues.
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His upheaval is funny and self-consciously melodramatic, with wry humor and tenderness just below the surface of dissonant darkness.
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He tries to push back, going on a melodramatic rant about his truth that had been denied, but eventually gives in.
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These self-absorbed reactions would be funny and melodramatic if the fate of our democracy and society weren't in the balance.
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FFVII was a strange, bombastic cyberpunk epic, while FFVIII was a melodramatic story about young love set against a futuristic war.
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Dr. Peter Dawson goes through an array of pain/orgasm faces so spectacularly melodramatic I almost had to pause my computer.
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It's not a bombastic, ridiculous, melodramatic thing, it's a scene that feels understated and, for lack of a better word, real.
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My Chemical Romance treated their fanbase like a family; with their galvanizing and melodramatic music, the previous decade had been theirs.
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They're programmed to perform melodramatic stories, and improvise just enough to incorporate the human guests who interrupt their carefully choreographed lives.
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As grindingly sincere as it is wildly misbegotten, this is a melodramatic miasma of white tears falling amid unspeakable black suffering.
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The evil demon kings of English pantomimes fired Stoker's imagination as a child, as Irving did later with his melodramatic turns.
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She is focused on a less melodramatic but more consequential question: how AI will affect the way people work and live.
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Upstairs, in the servants' quarters, you'll find Magnus Sigurdarson's short film, Corazón Vizcaya, a hilariously melodramatic telenovela shot partly by drone.
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In 1956, Cecil B. DeMille took the familiar story and made a big, melodramatic epic that's more operatic than merely cinematic.
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Mr. Blanchard and Ms. Lemmons almost go too far in numerous soul-searching monologues that can skirt close to melodramatic excess.
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Martin Schwab's bitter and irascible Lear avoided melodramatic gestures, letting us see the mad king's distress in a decidedly unheroic fashion.
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His witty songs, with their strong Latin flavor and Almodóvarian edge, evoked the narcissistic torments of a quartet of melodramatic Madrileñas.
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People have crazy-looking cases and a range of dramatic ringtones — Quranic verses for conservatives, melodramatic pop tunes for everyone else.
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If you underwhip them, the worst that will happen is that they won't be strong enough to support a melodramatic rise.
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"Atwood's sheer assurance as a storyteller makes for a fast, immersive narrative that's as propulsive as it is melodramatic," she added.
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It's hard to imagine a needle drop as melodramatic as the iconic Imogen Heap "Mmmwatchasay" shooting scene happening to settled adults.
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Yet Houellebecq's penchant is for the sentimental and the melodramatic rather than the subtle, and he ends up, therefore, overemphasizing this.
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When we got to Lear's death speech, the famous 'Never, never, never,' I asked her, Doesn't this seem a little melodramatic?
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I could act like this is some sign that we're living in a broadcast dystopia, but that would be too melodramatic.
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But he has difficulty in tying up the loose ends of his story, which takes an abrupt melodramatic turn before concluding.
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Video games — hold your melodramatic eye-roll — taught me more about self-care than I expected for an oft escapist medium.
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The perfectly melodramatic reveal kicked off one of the show's best episodes to date, fueled by the fire of fierce glares.
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Tom Holland masterfully channels Peter's teenage angst, which could easily come off as melodramatic or superficial, and infuses it with respect.
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That's been a broad, melodramatic element at times, but there's never been a question about what note the films have been striking.
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Alexandra Hedison presents two photographs of domestic items wrapped in plastic (furniture and a chandelier), both of which come off as melodramatic.
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Thankfully, when the internet saw the melodramatic quote tweet, it responded in the only appropriate fashion — by meme-ing it into oblivion.
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It sounds like a melodramatic emo lyric, but it reverberated in my mind, leading me to come out a few months later.
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I'm also a fan of Megadeth's staid approach: Lenny Kravitz, meanwhile, starred in his own delightfully melodramatic, sexy Rock The Vote ad.
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The true crime world is a pretty easy one to mock—if only because it can be so melodramatic and self-important.
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The narrator appears to be only a step from a nervous breakdown, but the neurasthenic sensitivity is gestural, unearned, a bit melodramatic.
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But what the movie does is to take this fabled melodramatic romantic seesaw and turn it into something indelibly heartfelt and revealing.
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It was an insanely melodramatic, extra-inning affair that pushed both teams into the embrace of exhaustion before Chicago was crowned king.
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His work was at once funny, melodramatic, and effortlessly charming, all while he and his many collaborators redefined the entire superhero genre.
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His extravagant acting certainly also sometimes infused his singing: There were a few melodramatic swoops in "Una furtive lagrima," Nemorino's melancholy monologue.
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After some morning conversation, the woman dresses and leaves, and as she walks home, the soundtrack swells with string-heavy, melodramatic music.
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I am still in disbelief, but incredibly honored that you would invite my melodramatic self to sing at a celebration of love !!
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In its first season, this melodramatic murder-mystery defined itself as a whodunit decidedly more interested in its characters than its puzzle.
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Indeed, at risk of being melodramatic, the outcome of that contest will determine the fate of our species in the 21st century.
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Most diners, even those well versed in the ins and outs of the melodramatic scandal, seemed unaware of the building's sketchy past.
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Churchill, who came to the pinnacle on May 10, 1940, was widely regarded as unstable, melodramatic and overly fond of strong drink.
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Purposely rough around the edges and more than a little melodramatic, it compensates with exuberant energy and a large, uniformly endearing cast.
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At almost every moment of the day I am accompanied by a pair of petulant, melodramatic children in my mind's back seat.
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Even in that desperate scene, her presence was gracefully sad rather than melodramatic, with Lisa's suicide seeming both shocking and somehow preordained.
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It has everything: a melodramatic two-way mirror reveal (err, "Ruveal"), insatiable thirst for revenge, and a Rihanna lip sync for the ages.
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But that assimilation hasn't really been positive — in fact, it trends toward painting the original documentary as "plodding and fatuous," overly melodramatic cheese.
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"I think that overblown, melodramatic framing of the issue tells you everything you need to know about what is happening here," Cramer said.
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It's like a great Lifetime movie in the best way: Though it's predictable and melodramatic, the characters are relatable and the story engaging.
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It's been getting so much buzz, and yet its trailer made made the movie look so melodramatic, saccharine, twee, overwrought, and manically romantic.
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Ah, yes, the melodramatic hospital drama we just can't quit—and thankfully haven't had to, since it's been on the air since 2005.
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It's easy to dismiss this conveniently episode-length chapter of Eleven's as just that: an embarrassing and melodramatic diversion from the real story.
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As they walk away, Brenda's whole character collapses and instead of her normal wiles she turns into a pile of melodramatic maternal instincts.
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Because of that there's no "The Journey" in Switch FIFA, EA claiming that the game's melodramatic story mode can only run in Frostbite.
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He can't help himself, though; he's conditioned by the plays he keeps turning out—plays that required either comic plots or melodramatic plots.
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But here, Rob's fragility isn't played for melodramatic pathos, or to excuse criminal behavior, or to string along an audience for nine seasons.
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We learn in an appropriately melodramatic way that the spill did in fact cause her to lose her and Andre's (Trai Byers) baby.
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That Disney+ makes his story readily available to both myself and anyone else seeking a melodramatic but touching flick is a welcome comfort.
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Kenneth MacMillan's "Manon" is a deliciously dark and melodramatic take on the well-known tragic 18th-century tale, and performances continue through Saturday.
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"Arkangel" is a bit of a melodramatic after-school special, but it's rooted in the fear at the heart of raising a child.
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To have preserved the film's melodramatic plot and much of its campy dialogue while shaving off 45 minutes is a kind of accomplishment.
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"False Flag," created by Maria Feldman and Amit Cohen and written by Mr. Cohen, takes that scenario and fully exploits its melodramatic possibilities.
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Likewise, Del Rey's music indulges in melodramatic archetypes of women by amplifying concepts of femininity and futility to the point of high camp.
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The book turns rueful, jaded and more than a little melodramatic as the bills come due for certain of Juliet's heedless past actions.
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One of Almodóvar's talents is his transformational, near-alchemical use of blunt ideas, how he marshals crude gestures, gaudy flourishes and melodramatic entanglements.
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This novel about a 21929th-century whaling expedition is as gory as Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," as darkly melodramatic as a classic Jacobean drama.
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It erases the nuance in life and I feel like we don't need more melodramatic teenagers, and that's what our show doesn't have.
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George Bellows, suspicious, like Sloan, of American motives in the war, suddenly turned out melodramatic scenes of German soldiers raping and torturing civilians.
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While the acting was satisfactory and the scripting only occasionally melodramatic, the main characters' shared philosophy towards the Earth's worthiness felt insincere throughout.
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" This becomes a slightly melodramatic tic: "a heave of discomfort"; "a singe of clumsy fear"; "a slant of accusation"; "the dredge of discomfort.
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The songs, which shift from defiant pop anthems to melodramatic ballads, do not evoke the circus, or at least not the American version.
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The elaborate unity of the ivory material in effect makes melodramatic gloom mix with comic-tragic reconciliation under the aegis of the erotic.
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At some point I realized what was more interesting to me was to sort of dispel that myth, reveal that we're all melodramatic.
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Why should I have to figure out if a character is sad, when they can inform me in a melodramatic voice, "I am sad"?
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Callie, for all her lawyer posturing, has become a self-righteous boor, and Mariana is the same melodramatic teen she was in season 1.
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One counselor, who nobody liked, wanted to create a melodramatic dance about endangered whales, while two beloved counselors offered an African/jazz/modern blend.
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"Lovesick" is a word you use to describe a teenager nursing a breakup by listening to Dashboard Confessional and reblogging melodramatic poetry on Tumblr.
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If this all sounds melodramatic, maybe it is, at least a little bit; after all, the band once played "Sorrow" for six hours straight.
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I encourage you to follow this account, which spotlights some of the best melodramatic YA paperback book covers from the '70s through the '90s.
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In fact, one such mission — a melodramatic murder mystery starring a bunch of robots — might just be my favorite in all of Fallout 4.
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Immigrants, whether documented or not, commit less crime than other Americans, but Trump talks about these crimes with a melodramatic bluster: Joining us in
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After its release, The Room became a cult classic thanks to its melodramatic (and not necessarily grammatically correct) dialogue and dramatic sex scene music.
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Her album-length strategy hasn't changed: mix equal parts radio-ready bangers and melodramatic ballads, and season with inspirational platitudes and jocular self-effacement.
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Adults, meanwhile, can surrender to some old-fashioned melodramatic pleasures, as the busy plot takes in Harriet and Robert's struggles as well as Phiona's.
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Sondheim's night music occupied a single house in wry waltz time; Lloyd Webber's the operatic basement in melodramatic swellings—musicals, still, of Gigantic Importance.
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It also works as an art-world allegory, an almost comically melodramatic indictment of everyone involved — deluded artist, reptilian dealer and callous public alike.
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In a melodramatic flourish, Alling, in the local press, compared the situation to that of the Challenger, which exploded in 1986, killing seven astronauts.
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"Erased The Night" employs the 80s synth pop styles you might find on John Hughes soundtrack, heavy on soaring synths and melodramatic chord progressions.
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Overemotional, melodramatic, hormonal—in 2017, these are the words leveled at girls and women to shrink them from feeling (and then expressing) their emotions.
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It's just my swimsuit, but sometimes (when I'm especially melodramatic), it feels like an omen, some slain albatross that will carry with it misfortune.
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Still, the melodramatic eye roll of a journalist at a staid news conference upset the stagecraft and flooded the Chinese internet with sly humor.
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Which is grossly unfair to John Ford's epic drama of growing up in a Welsh mining community, which is extraordinarily beautiful and thrillingly melodramatic.
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The ornate, melodramatic commercials for Adidas and Taco Bell that showed during the broadcast were more invigorating than many of this year's nominated videos.
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Melodramatic camera movements keep telling us where to look, and isolated sections of Rose's body — her padding feet, her widening eyes — fill the screen.
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But in the melodramatic calculus, it was also a convenient, strategic cop-out, allowing the romantic entanglements to stay unresolved into the new season.
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It also yawns between the thrill of this production when it sings and its perversely melodramatic flatness when it's behaving like a traditional play.
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"Atwood's sheer assurance as a storyteller makes for a fast, immersive narrative that's as propulsive as it is melodramatic," wrote our reviewer, Michiko Kakutani.
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Engler referred to what was happening in Laconia as ''this so-called heroin epidemic,'' his tone melodramatic, raising his hands defensively above his head.
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Here and there, the narrative gallops at an accelerated pace, almost tilting toward the melodramatic, but, for the most part, Walker bypasses this pitfall.
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But the latest bout isn't born of the kind of deliciously melodramatic banter that has kept the show running for almost 10 seasons now.
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There is, as in live theater, the occasional hesitance over a line, and the first episode relies on melodramatic twists that don't always feel earned.
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The townspeople, donning handmade fabrics and the garb of farmer cowboys, wear weariness on their faces and articulate it in their desperate, sometimes melodramatic tones.
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The apparently casual collision of the ordinary and the fantastic is done in a way that makes 'magical realism' seem shabby and melodramatic by comparison.
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"Les Misérables" does not provide a director much leeway to tinker with its firmly typed good-guy bad-guy characters and its heaving, melodramatic plot.
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While this romantic plot may sound unbelievably melodramatic, on the film's website they make it clear that this story is based on a real disorder.
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But what keeps The Hate U Give from veering into the melodramatic or preachy territory is that it commits to fleshing out its characters fully.
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The answers don't necessarily vindicate Ginsburg, but they do show that the fainting-couch routine we've witnessed over the past several days is unnecessarily melodramatic.
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The dystopian smoggy backgrounds of Lylat Wars—aka Star Fox 64—worked like a kind of chiaroscuro, accentuating the brightness of the game's melodramatic explosions.
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The melodramatic camp of the original series poked its head over the garden fence — turns out, it was hiding behind a hedge this whole time.
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If a melodramatic television show using death as a plot device seems indelicate, take a moment to remember that death is as indiscriminate in reality.
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Ms Adams's other starring role at the festival was in "Nocturnal Animals", Tom Ford's proudly melodramatic and dizzyingly ambitious follow-up to "A Single Man".
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It's got several sequences of melodramatic action movie cliches acted out by a CG insect—in other words, a good pick for a blazed viewing.
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The invective that clouds the careers of Plath and Ms Swift—"melodramatic", "psychotic", "conniving"—has rarely been used to describe men doing the same thing.
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Darker looks every bit as melodramatic as its predecessor; its first trailer has sexy music, sexy abs, sexy stares, sexy hotels, and sexy shower sex.
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Inherently melodramatic, the film belongs to Ms. Shannon, who vividly etches Joanne in a full end-of-life range: funny, loving, angry, regretful, exhausted, resigned.
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To speculate on the weather conditions of the day he first entered the Brill Building would be mawkish, cliché and melodramatic beyond taste and shame.
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The direction, by Robin Witt, sometimes emphasizes the qualities in Maugham that soon made this kind of melodramatic potboiler the stuff of Monty Pythonesque satire.
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Previous portrayals of the youngest March sister cast her as a selfish, melodramatic brat, but Pugh's version had us thinking, Maybe I'm actually an Amy.
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In the play, the two share a melodramatic goodbye through the test chamber door's glass window before a burst of fire immolates Jon's physical body.
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Set to a melodramatic commissioned score by Claire van Kampen, the dance is, according to the program note, inspired by Lee Krasner's "Umber Series" paintings.
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It seems a little romantic now, a bit melodramatic, but I wanted them to shake my own faith and replace it with some of theirs.
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Fellowes' visually splendid, addictively melodramatic series became a sensation when it debuted on ITV in 2010 and then on PBS in the US in 2011.
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Today, Mr. Levenson has had his commercial breakthrough with the hit musical "Dear Evan Hansen," again providing a sympathetic view of melodramatic high school feelings.
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Now that Republicans control the executive branch, the Dems knew there wouldn't be any melodramatic war memorial or museum closings just to make a point.
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Okay, so Z: The Beginning of Everything is actually an Amazon Studios production, and not Lifetime, but there's a very melodramatic Nicholas Sparks vibe happening here.
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Both The Last Defense and The Case of: Caylee Anthony purport to go beyond the tabloid sensationalism and melodramatic approach of the media and the prosecutors.
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But the reason for my melodramatic angst is just how close Google came to true greatness — there's so much good contained within the company's 2017 phones.
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Messing's performance seems out of sync with the rest of the actors at times, as if she's playing scenes from a much more melodramatic TV show.
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The cast has great chemistry, particularly in the warmer early scenes, when they seem to be riffing outside of the confines of the extremely melodramatic script.
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As Jane's life became a melodramatic tangle of complications to rival her favorite telenovelas, her virginity remained one of the only real consistencies in her life.
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How did you approach their personal horror stories without being exploitative or melodramatic, while still giving the full picture of both Gooden and Strawberry's aberrant behavior?
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As Lydia, Moreno gets to embody a rich, fiercely loyal character with a penchant for melodramatic flourishes — in other words, a character perfectly suited to her.
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Perhaps he might have been less melodramatic about it all, but it's hard enough to make anyone want to read so much about a forgone conclusion.
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You may feel I am just being melodramatic in thinking that because I live in America as a black person I am somehow at special risk.
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The country's famous anchor Ri Chun Hee, known as the "pink lady" for bright outfits, told North Koreans of the news in her usual melodramatic manner.
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This feels like it gets closer than anything in the melodramatic second season to exploring systemic oppression, to acknowledging the larger political ramifications of personal decisions.
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"Wonder Wheel," starring Juno Temple, Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake, sets its melodramatic tale of love and betrayal amid the vintage beachside amusements of Coney Island.
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A juicy, melodramatic account of the 2008 presidential race, the book was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning HBO movie starring Ed Harris and Julianne Moore.
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On a melodramatic Monday, an independent report debunked Donald Trump's claims that the FBI was biased in its investigation into his campaign's 2016 links to Moscow.
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Raul Reyes: This melodramatic circus is a disservice to us all No matter how Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing plays out, there will be no winners.
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In a melodramatic reversal of his earlier votes, McCain in July condemned the American people to continued suffering under unaffordable health insurance premiums and unattainable deductibles.
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Merkin is capable of being at once melodramatic and finely nuanced; she has so many good phrases about depression that it's hard to choose among them.
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In retrospect it was a little melodramatic but I love that I purposefully leaned into it in the end with that last moment on the record.
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The topic is raised for every one of the main characters, and every time the movie draws back from the risk of making proceedings overly melodramatic.
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When the image of Jennelyn Olaires weeping as she cradled the body of her slain husband went viral in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte called it melodramatic.
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"The Gentleman," despite its somewhat melodramatic plot about a crusading young journalist triumphing over vicious opposition in a small town, is an early venture into descriptive realism.
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In October, the esteemed Atlanta rapper Future released a mixtape with a lyrically melodramatic newcomer and chart-topper named Juice WRLD, surely in part to gain streams.
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The joy of this show is in the melodramatic twists and turns, the uncertainty of different characters' loyalty and capacity for betrayal in the pursuit of power.
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One man pressed his nose against the glass, then placed his palm against the store window while taking a picture of it, a portrait of melodramatic forlornness.
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Pomerantsev, the British son of Russian émigrés, had worked in Russia's state-controlled television industry, and portrayed it as a hypnotic circus full of wild, melodramatic extremes.
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Ms. Kim is simultaneously an ordinary woman and a melodramatic heroine, her performance made more layered and intriguing by the intimation that she may be playing herself.
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It was six days before the Philippines' midterm elections, and the country's usual mix of soap-opera politics and melodramatic conspiracy theories had reached a new intensity.
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It's a cloudburst of emotion from the melodramatic to the unrealistic to the twisted, and for that reason is the perfect reflection of the theatrics of adolescence.
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Unfortunately, Allied suffers from a screenplay that starts out taut and interesting but grows baggier as it goes on, until, by the end, it's overwrought melodramatic cheese.
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This is the type of album that's suited more for a melodramatic rock opera than a stingy punk basement, and Rønnenfelt's eccentricities are put on forthright display.
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Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard's intertwining growls pleaded not only for attention, but besieged the listener in a melodramatic surround-sound symphony that could exhaust one's best defense.
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After Varys gives a long, melodramatic speech about how he and Tyrion are both complicit in whatever fire-murders Daenerys commits, he whips out Bran's letter to Jon.
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The latter, at least, turns out to be a melodramatic staging, but by the end of "The Final Problem" you long for the simplicity of a false hallucination.
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Interview subjects offer obvious, melodramatic descriptions of the circumstances of Wong's life that Tom includes rather than leaving on the cutting room floor like the filler they are.
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As more rooms in the creepy old mansion are revealed, players collect useful items, encounter melodramatic scares and progress towards an endgame that always involves a sinister twist.
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Given the significance of language, no wonder titans of the Tamil film industry long dominated the state's politics, a saga just as melodramatic as those screened in cinemas.
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The guy has become a joke and he is so melodramatic, so full of himself and he cannot see the fact that our economy is doing fantastically well.
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His melodramatic, almost adolescent conniptions would be laughable were it not for what follows: the execution of five kneeling men in orange jumpsuits, accused of being British spies.
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But it stops short of becoming, say, Lifetime's recent, overly melodramatic version of this same story (which really was a two-hour movie) through sheer commitment to craft.
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Even though "Kapoor & Sons" goes from lightly comic to more darkly dramatic to pretty overtly melodramatic, it never loses its lived-in quality or plunges into the absurd.
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Broody teens, dark secrets, melodramatic school dances, supernaturally hot people breaking each other's hearts for as far as the eye can see: This is the teen soap way.
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Along with the score's melodramatic strings and high-pitched piano notes, Mr. Harris's text is the work's weakest element, not nearly as eloquent and sophisticated as his choreography.
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If you overheard calls with my family at certain extreme moments, if you wrote down the dialogue, you would think it was melodramatic even if O'Neill wrote it.
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The New Year Times called her work "melodramatic," but also compared her to Joan Didion and Sylvia Plath for delving into the "raw candor" of her emotional life.
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And in the series's melodramatic, emotional and spikily funny atmosphere, Murphy has given Lange, Sarandon and the rest of the cast an enormous space in which to operate.
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Because as attractive as some of them are, I still can't reconcile myself to the saccharine and melodramatic formulas that seem to be mandatory in their original markets.
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Valentine's Day movies nowadays are no joke, and we've compiled some of the sappiest, mushiest, most melodramatic movies that will have your tear ducts swollen into next year.
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Waititi has transformed the melodramatic Caging Skies into a film that's less an adaptation than a reinvention; it subverts the tenets of how such stories should be told.
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You know, if we get to the point that that's how people think our justice system works, at the risk of sounding melodramatic here, stuff starts falling apart.
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As Scarpia, the baritone Michael Chioldi brought a powerful, gravelly voice to the role and seemed the most grounded of the leads, though his acting tended toward the melodramatic.
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Feel free to scoff at the use of melodramatic imagery in an election speech, but it's just this kind of emotional triggering that works with voters and always has.
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This scene is what we've been waiting for 217 episodes, and I am with Dany even when she makes the melodramatic choice to kneel down and caress the sand.
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Exhibited artists include Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Melanie Cervantes, Regina José Galindo, Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya), Victoria Lomasko, Liza Morozova, Mujeres Públicas, Tanja Ostojić, YES!
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The character of Dirk Dassler, the throwback aesthetics, and the pounding, melodramatic synth create the effect of dropping Boogie Nights' Dirk Diggler into a game of Aggressive Alpine Skiing.
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Technology is so pervasive that it has become an afterthought in spite of the fact that, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, it's the center of an arms race.
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But your mom or dad may also have been a little melodramatic: It's actually pretty hard to kill your brain cells, though you can still do some serious damage.
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Todd Haynes' Carol featured delightfully melodramatic and nostalgic rich lesbian sex scenes, but the scenes were brief in duration, and what they had in quality they lost in quantity.
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Forget the mask-wearing, Russian-accented, monotoned-sounding, melodramatic, rule-the-world villain you've become used to; the bad teacher has always been the real nemesis to our happiness.
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Useless, melodramatic tears welled up in my eyes as I had a sudden flashback of sixth-grade gym class, where I was the worst at everything except ping pong.
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But the choreographer, Veronica Cendoya, skillfully utilized the familiar themes of soccer — the aggression, the melodramatic injuries, the hysterical glee and moribund despair — to create an amusing, inventive piece.
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But whenever I Lost My Body teeters one the edge of using one too many melodramatic jump cuts, it always miraculously justifies the weight of its own self-seriousness.
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Newton's exasperated and aptly melodramatic delivery of Jane's accusation that her cruel stepbrother is "like a slave-driver" is a knowing contemporary wink at this timeless yet dated classic.
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Critics regularly announce that he has finally left behind his taste for gender games and melodramatic plots with murdered spouses, only to have his next movie prove them wrong.
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However, Schmid noted that documentaries like "Serial" and "Making a Murderer" are a far cry from the lurid, melodramatic true crime narratives of past decades that seemed to celebrate killers.
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I'm a little surprised too, since A24 usually puts together beautiful previews for its upcoming films, but this one takes what could be a tense premise and gets melodramatic fast.
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Now, of course, Cruz has all kinds of weaknesses as well — more than a few of which were on display in his rambling, preening, melodramatic victory speech on Monday night.
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So Cosmo joins a long, long list of melodramatic magazine shows that have all spurred from one main source: the 2003 New York Times best-seller, The Devil Wears Prada.
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The franchise operates shamelessly in a melodramatic and binary world of good guys and bad guys, punctuating scenes with irrelevant quotes about war or machismo fluff from Bush-era neocons.
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Journey's onscreen characters charted a melodramatic course through the game, keeping a firm but curious distance until a joyous descent down a sunlit dune united them in a celebratory dance.
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It's perhaps a melodramatic way to have Arthie understand Yolanda's side and come to terms with her own sexuality, and yet it works, thanks to Arthie's believable naiveté and discomfort.
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In 1981, Mr. Zeffirelli returned to the topic of doomed teenage passion — this time across class lines — with the melodramatic weepie "Endless Love," starring a 15-year-old Brooke Shields.
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The result is an engrossing drama that skillfully avoids preaching or propagandizing — although a melodramatic twist that comes at the very end of the evening somewhat undercuts the play's credibility.
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"Sorry" is the token ballad on Halsey's second album, so it's meant to be sentimental — but it crosses the line from sentimental to melodramatic so often that it's almost cringey.
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This is a classically melodramatic kind of irony, in which contrivances of plotting (and the malevolence of individual actors) stand in for the grinding machinations of the world at large.
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One story arc follows a faintly melodramatic triangle among Mostro (Juan Carlos Hernández), who owns a bodega that binds together some of the story lines; his voluptuous wife, Samira (Ms.
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" He continued: "Then it may be a matter of question whether Mr. Hitchcock's points of psychology, the sort highly favored by Krafft-Ebing, are as reliable as his melodramatic stunts.
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Both take a bloody, complex, seemingly intractable international situation (Palestine and Israel in the earlier show) and tie it to a mystery thriller that plays out in direly melodramatic fashion.
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Given how blatantly pain-filled Eleven's life has been and continues to be, it's a testament to what a tremendous actor she is that Stranger Things doesn't feel more melodramatic.
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The New York Times review praised some of its writing as "simple and affecting," while saying it was melodramatic and suggesting it garnered sympathy not for Farrow, but for Allen.
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The scenes between them bring some much-needed humor to a show that regularly gets bogged down in melodramatic soap-opera theatrics, which feel at odds with its more outlandish plots.
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The reality is that the once-voguish erotic thriller dived into sex and power in the most melodramatic and twisted ways—and perhaps that's why there's so little nostalgia for them.
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The CW takes whatever genres or franchises are popular at the moment, reduces them to their most melodramatic parts, and sprinkles in hot people with an aversion to shirts for spice.
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With a message on its website – and a rather melodramatic introduction – the company announced today "with a heavy heart" that the Vyclone app will be switched off on July 22, 2016.
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That is, until an ending montage brings some of them together nicely — because even at its least compelling, few shows can pull off the melodramatic montage as well as this one.
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women looks like a melodramatic take on the Marston-Byrne union, tackling not only Wonder Woman, but also kink, polyamory, bisexuality, and feminism in the 1940s.
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Yes, it sometimes veers into the melodramatic (Hot Dr. Turner and his wife — formerly Sister Bernadette, now known as Shelagh — are almost insufferably happy and upbeat about everything), but it's charming.
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Legendary Man, as he is called, is a smooth-talking European daredevil who's sort of a cross between Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World and a melodramatic Nike commercial.
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There are tens and tens and tens of thousands of brief asides and melodramatic declarations, all of them ancient and bizarre, and the unbearable heat of the cyber history is suffocating.
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It sounds melodramatic, but it was real to me: My endless to-do list-making was a small, but very telling part of what was making me miserable all the time.
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"Crown Vic" sidesteps any genuine ethical consideration of his choices, deploying a melodramatic twist and some grandiose speechifying that seems to respond defensively — and simplistically — to current debates about police brutality.
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But the script is often strangled by its overgrown lyricism and by its surprising tendency toward melodramatic clichés as the other characters present their testimonies to an unseen audience of interrogators.
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For now, these are laughably melodramatic statements, but if North Korea's nuclear and missiles programs continue to improve at the same pace, those proclamations will quickly stop seeming like empty boasts.
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"Even as the gathering melodramatic storms threaten to swamp this pungent slice of life, Mr. Cretton manages to earn your tears honestly," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
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Strangely, the first thing I really remember making me feel okay was an HBO show: Six Feet Under, a truly melodramatic and over-the-top show that was entirely about death.
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I wanted to include that to show how a purely personal filmmaker like Leos Carax, somebody who has a very particular way of seeing the world, would make a melodramatic film.
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It's also worth putting thought into how you frame the incident: A long-winded, venting session can be cathartic, but it also has the potential to sound self-centered or melodramatic.
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"The film is earnestly and unabashedly melodramatic to an extent that may baffle audiences accustomed to clever, knowing historical fictions," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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The tone is usually aggressively patriotic and melodramatic, but this year, for the first time since it started running, the Gala included a non-rehearsed segment that focused on the coronavirus.
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We mapped the vocabulary used in English novels published between 1710 and 1920, and discovered that Austen's focused more on the abstract over the physical, and the quotidian over the melodramatic.
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You can circle strafe around enemies and backstab them, and everyone in the game is a hot tortured science vampire whose melodramatic backstory is unveiled through crystals made out of blood.
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Neighboring galleries display pastoral landscapes, portraits of bourgeois matrons, and melodramatic history paintings that may not appeal to everyone, but certainly reveal the exquisitely descriptive manner of 19th-century Spanish painting.
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Zuckerberg declined to comment on Hughes' piece when asked by reporters in Paris, but Nick Clegg, his global communication head and a former British deputy prime minister, dismissed it as "melodramatic".
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Adapted from Sarah Waters's 2002 novel Fingersmith, Park has moved the Victorian-era story to 1930s Korea during the Japanese occupation, and it might have only accentuated the material's melodramatic origins.
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House of Cards, which has garnered the attention of politicos in Washington — and even the viewership of President Barack Obama — melds a melodramatic flair with ripped-from-the-headlines Capitol Hill plots.
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Extremely happy-go-lucky types may find it alien or melodramatic, but I think most people will find recognisable stuff here, even if realising that is hard to come to terms with.
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Bandai Namco's game features perfectly coiffed protagonists, melodramatic music, and skimpy bikini armor, as well as a portentous voiceover that tells us that in this world, all the regular humans are dead.
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It's theater: entertaining and, in its most melodramatic form, intended to make the world morally legible, a place of clearly delineated winners and losers, right and left, happy people and miserable ones.
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Baroque and melodramatic, everything about bullfighting—the absurd seriousness of it—bears a faint trace of humor, which immediately evaporates when you witness the wavering, frustrated bull collapse to an undignified death.
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Never mind; Let's leave narration to the professionals and dive into Jane the Virgin's Season 173 finale, which poured its melodramatic heart and soul into an episode of non-stop emotional turbulence.
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Stripping away the bulk of the melodramatic baggage from Lorde's "Melodrama" single "Green Light," the Canadian duo Chromeo builds a fresh, electro-funk track around Lorde's cryptic lyrics about love and nightlife.
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Fukasaku employs an almost comically melodramatic Masamichi Amano score, and he and his son have fun with the way teen vanity and social hierarchies persist even after all the students are armed.
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I don't mean to be melodramatic, but what we're seeing now is the legitimization of this "othering" of foreigners we have seen in the past, that we thought we had got over.
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The Dead End Kids franchises of baseball faced off for seven taut World Series games, the last an insanely melodramatic, extra-inning affair that pushed the teams into the embrace of exhaustion.
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Bettye LaVette: Things Have Changed (Verve) After her 2003 rebranding with minimalist producer-songwriter Dennis Walker, soul belter turned art singer LaVette got melodramatic on our ass, as old soul belters will.
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This Barsala flat has been turned into a Lisa Frank wonderland fit for today's youth – filled with melodramatic purple, neon green, and late '80s nostalgia – and reservations are open starting October 11th.
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It's an emotionally charged scene that shows Alicia losing it like we've never seen her do before (although it does feel a bit more melodramatic than The Good Wife tends to be).
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One of the most distinctive Japanese role-playing games ever created, it's ever-changeable, blending an action combat system and a melodramatic tragedy with gameplay elements that constantly change around the player.
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The most important element of this whole melodramatic conflict: Comey is accusing the House of asking people to testify in private so that their testimonies can be leaked selectively for political reasons.
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English-speaking audiences may find it a touch melodramatic, at least to begin with: the pilot episode features the first couple having a very impassioned argument as lightning crackles absurdly in the background.
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He's in nearly every scene of the movie, and the young actor is capable of reaching remarkable emotional depths, bringing Conor through anger, resignation, frustration, and indignation, while never coming off as melodramatic.
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Now I look back at it and think it is a bit melodramatic and saccharin, but as a teenager, I was struck by the ability of the work to have an emotional impact.
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A Million Things, premiering Wednesday, September 26, is This Is Us with a twist, and everyone who loves the Pearson clan will be crying right along with television's newest melodramatic crew this year.
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I wanted kicks—the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I'd yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I'd found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books.
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Starting with an idealistic cop's laborious reconstruction of shredded financial documents, it aspires to some of the quotidian procedural force of "The Wire," but Mr. Padilha's moralistic and melodramatic instincts quickly assert themselves.
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This breathlessly melodramatic thriller shouldn't be taken as a psychological case study, any more than Mr. Shyamalan's laughable "Lady in the Water" should be mined for clues about the habits of film critics.
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Democrats have a lot to complain about, from Republican gerrymandering to Supreme Court packing, but at their most melodramatic, they come off as a collection of grievances that just happen to caucus together.
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This preview looks a little melodramatic and bland (although maybe that's just the intentionally washed out look), but it comes from the duo behind Sherlock, so it may be worth paying attention to.
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" Mr. Elsaesser memorably described the melodramatic story of Mr. Sirk's "Written on the Wind" (22000): "Dorothy Malone wants Rock Hudson who wants Lauren Bacall who wants Robert Stack who just wants to die.
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A predictable death and a resentful teenage daughter (a fine Gideon Adlon) nearly help push the story over the melodramatic edge; and a drug subplot with its easily breached medicine cabinet is distracting.
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We'd love to tell you that your month will be as explosive as a Cai Guo-Qiang gunpowder drawing, as melodramatic as a Ragnar Kjartansson video, or as colorful as a Mickalene Thomas installation.
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The look doesn't match characters' over-the-top fashions and melodramatic voice acting, either — when your story includes a femme fatale android in a skimpy wraparound leotard, you'd better lean into the stylized weirdness.
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Last August, after seeing Lorde arrive at the MTV Video Music Awards dressed in a fluffy, lilac Monique Lhuillier gown, New York Magazine's The Cut declared that "melodramatic purple" was the new millennial pink.
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The cult 1967 movie version starred Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate and Patty Duke, and their big-haired, Pucci-swathed looks and melodramatic lines are frequently invoked by entertainment and design professionals to this day.
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For the unfamiliar, Shotta Texts showcases idiosyncratic, melodramatic, and hilarious text exchanges between drug dealers and clients—daily snapshots that offer a flavor of the people who buy and sell through the underground market.
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Like the far more melodramatic 2010 film "Black Swan," the ballet is a cousin of those midcentury women's films where Bette Davis or Greer Garson play two women with identical looks but opposed manners.
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So Spyros, in his own words, goes "the full le Carré," arranging a melodramatic midnight meetup with Connerty in which he hands the eager attorney a smoking gun … with Wendy's fingerprints all over it.
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Those American variations and especially their later descendants, like Lanford Wilson's "The Hot L Baltimore," often teetered on the brink of both melodramatic bathos and quippy sitcom humor, in which everybody's armed with zingers.
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So it was almost like she was — maybe it's a bit maudlin and melodramatic — but I was thinking that she was sort of teaching her or addressing her in some sort of maternal way.
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For a while, this slow-burn approach by the writer and director, Simon Stone, works: Stabilized by mostly unimpeachable performances, the movie hugs the rails of credibility more tightly than its melodramatic material deserves.
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When I was feeling like simply no good would come of going back to school, I ended a melodramatic diary entry with a list of things I was excited about in the coming year.
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But don't expect melodramatic fireworks: The shows depict lives in turmoil with deceptive simplicity — an elusive quality that the Transport Group captures in the graceful revivals now in repertory at the Gym at Judson.
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After code-switching from desperate-emo-pleading to commitment-phobic-rejection within the space of a single conversation, "Colorblind" is the melodramatic accompaniment to Sebastian searching for a heartbroken Annette to right his wrongs.
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It provides a solid basis for the show and its characters, while also allowing Shore to tone down some of the melodramatic excess common to K-dramas, in favor of House-style medical mysteries.
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A forbidden interracial romance involving Manami's older brother threatens to tip the novel into melodramatic territory, but Sepahban manages to rein it in, turning it into an important device to suggest the danger of secrets.
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They then meet a group of twelve horned, gray-skinned alien kids who are also playing the same game, which prompts a shift in the story's focus from video game hijinks to melodramatic anime tropes.
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The original Suspiria's murder scenes are elaborate set-pieces done with exquisite slow-build timing, melodramatic in their intensity, and, for many viewers, these gruesome kills were far more memorable than the witchcraft-tinged story.
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By that I mean: there's a big map with lots of activities, a long and melodramatic story, the ability to equip and upgrade your character and his motorcycle, and a laundry list of side quests.
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In this pairing, my tastes run more toward "Red," which hits deeply in so many ways — intellectual, emotional, visceral — and, in the Rothko character's demeaning quips and melodramatic tales, has its share of laughs, too.
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Relocated to a farm in South Africa in the 1890s, Mr. Abrahamse's adaptation focused less on the faintly melodramatic love-triangle plot to recast the play as a fierce fight for possession of the land.
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While I found the game's melodramatic premise engrossing, the lackluster ending I received felt unsatisfying, especially given pre-release commercials in Japan had featured interviews with real couples, asking their thoughts on love and marriage.
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It's not supposed to be depicting our everyday experience and it's definitely melodramatic in parts, but at least it speaks to the seriousness of the profession and of the pursuit and the passion to dance.
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I love that she is not afraid of the melodramatic and that her objective in both plays was as much to have the audience have a good time as it was to say something meaningful.
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Filmmaking is a director's medium, and through all of Shonali's movies, you'll see that she has a very particular way of telling stories, which are real, which are not melodramatic, they're not exploitative of emotions.
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Backstage Beauty Report The film inspiration of the Arthur Arbesser fall/winter 2017 show led the makeup artist Francelle Daly to give models a melodramatic, vampy lip that recalled the Hollywood sirens of film noir.
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She came up in the business as a soap opera star, fought to become a producer of her low-budget wrestling show and applied her soap experience to the melodramatic story arcs of the ring.
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McCarthy has proved throughout her career — including during her Oscar-nominated turn in Bridesmaids — that she's an expert at playing hyper-tense, aggrieved characters who are always on the edge of erupting in melodramatic frustration.
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So they put on a melodramatic rock performance that is so hilarious and shocking and yet perfectly in line with who these characters are: deep down, even the villains of Bikini Bottom have good hearts.
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There are divider pages denoting every jump between the 1958 and the 113 timelines, and each has a melodramatic epigraph from William Carlos Williams, Virgil, a classic rock song, or the 1973 Scorsese film Mean Streets.
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The ask and advice communities have often gained notoriety and made headlines for their seemingly melodramatic content, but they can also be a place where real users get help for a whole host of different issues.
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It is ostentatious, even a touch melodramatic, but there is grace in her very theatricality, in her arresting and sometimes willfully stretched metaphors, in her hard but vulnerable wit that is often mordant but never bitter.
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When Sólo con Tu Pareja came out, it marked the promising debut of a filmmaker bursting with ideas, inspired by the likes of Federico Fellini and Pedro Almodóvar to tell melodramatic stories with a knowing wink.
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If you juxtapose the serious, melodramatic quotes of Game of Thrones against your photo, carefully edited to appear to be not too edited, you'll strike an ideal combination of self-aware, pop culture-savvy, and funny.
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It is melodramatic but brutally self-aware; a trivia version that aired in the weeks after the premiere included, among other things, a counter on screen that totted up the many times one character changed hats.
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Her fiery mother Xiomara (Andrea Navedo), devout grandmother Alba (Ivonne Coll), and melodramatic telenovela star father Rogelio (Jaime Camil) could easily have remained as simple as those descriptors, but instead, each has become so much more.
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A theory: The real, less melodramatic reason that the old Taylor Swift cannot come to the phone right now is not because she has died, but because she's too busy reinventing herself to call you back.
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How to Dress Well, "Lost Youth / Lost You" "Lost Youth / Lost You" is the first track cut from melodramatic alt-R&B maven How to Dress Well's new album Care, which is coming out this September.
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A 35-year-old man, who has an unparalleled amount of experience on a dating program that hinges on emotional manipulation and melodramatic gamesmanship, will play with a cast of younger, and almost completely inexperienced players.
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Despite efforts to leaven the grief with humor, the movie is inherently melodramatic, and it belongs to Ms. Shannon, who vividly etches Joanne in a full end-of-life range: funny, loving, angry, regretful, exhausted, resigned.
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As the lovably melodramatic Lydia, the actress (who was one of the first to win the quartet of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) gets to openly relish the spotlight and bend it to her will.
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Her existence as a villain was largely lashed out as a vehicle of being outcast by the community she called home —an understandable if not, melodramatic reaction to being persecuted in a time of moral panic.
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But the melodramatic photos look no less real, in their way, than any view you can find with your own eyes, making them much deeper and more unsettling jokes about truth and the nature of perception.
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She's clearly influenced by the shoegaze era of Brit pop and the kind of backing tracks we used to get from The Prodigy and other late '80s/early '90s dance music, but with a melodramatic bent.
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How the ballet ends varies from one production to another, but in the 1895 one (made vividly melodramatic at Ballet Theater) Odette and Siegfried choose death: The only realm in which they will now find love.
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None of this has seemed to matter to Republicans, who have so rushed this process that it has devolved into a melodramatic circus, rather than a thoughtful consideration of a nominee's fitness for a lifetime appointment.
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Serious yet melodramatic, they contrast statements of stark deprivation ("I Cannot Be Fixed") with images of exposed hearts; weapons; burning eight balls; broken pencils; and a large, injured eye, conjuring faith, superstition, violence and thwarted expression.
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Calling from a high-rise building in a suburb of Mumbai, they told her, in tones that were alternately earnest and melodramatic, that they wanted to share the details of a sprawling criminal operation targeting Americans.
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It offers Mr. Polunin a chance to be very misunderstood, very spiritual and very melodramatic, and occasionally to dash off whipping turns or jumps, all wildly applauded by an audience clearly hungry for some pyrotechnical show.
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Gubarev's lawyer Hannah Brown accused Millar of being "melodramatic" and said they had narrowed the scope of the deposition to focus on Steele's background and the 13 lines in the dossier which related to her client.
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Motherboard got an exclusive first look at the film, which is a fascinating—if a little melodramatic—attempt to track down these "hacker hideouts" and show us what they actually look like in the real world.
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The saga told personal, often melodramatic stories against background plots that all traveled the same general arc: You are introduced to the world, and via the intimate perspective of someone directly involved, you see that world unravel.
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As he describes some of their tactics and intrusions, the exasperation is clear, even if there was some belated effort to treat the victims with dignity and care, not just as "prostitutes" or melodramatic fallen woman archetypes.
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The musical landscape in Moonlight is as diverse as Miami itself, and Britell's score in particular gives the film a haunted but immediate quality that underscores the constant threat of violence without wringing it into melodramatic excess.
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That type of stuff happens to everyone at some point, though the average friendship rift typically doesn't involve famous people (or flagrant use of the word "bro"), even if the fall-out is equally melodramatic or mundane.
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While a description that grim doesn't usually sound like something you wouldn't expect to see sandwiched between melodramatic Lifetime movies and Dance Moms, the Canadian import falls right in line with the likes of summer series UnReal.
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His penultimate feature, "Faat-Kiné" (2001), is the portrait of a defiantly independent entrepreneur in Dakar, Senegal, a single mother who refuses the melodramatic options of pity or shame that would have been her conventional cinematic fate.
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It ratchets up the drama to deadly serious heights in the second act that might seem melodramatic were it not for the legitimate points that the story and the dialogue raise about human nature and racial prejudice.
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Sirk broke into movies in the mid-1930s under the Nazis, making an adaptation of Ibsen's play "The Pillars of Society" and several melodramatic vehicles for the Swedish diva Zarah Leander, before escaping to the United States.
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When Wendy was very young, he would drape a blanket over her bedroom table and light the space with a reading lamp, creating a mini-amphitheatre in which he acted out melodramatic tales with her toy horses.
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A melodramatic combination of me gesticulating and putting the onus on him via a sequence of unreplicable body language maneuvers led to him reaching into the bottom of the oven and pulling out one of the buns.
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For us, it was too amazing not to have this romance element, the fact that their relationship ended in a very melodramatic way and they were reunited in a most unusual way, by a dictator playing cupid.
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Peter allows the melodramatic "Enough is enough" two-on-one date card to summon Tammy Ly and Mykenna Dorn to a pre-rose ceremony inquisition (as Bachelor he definitely had the power to refuse such TV theater).
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They become some of the show's more frustrating parts because there's a strong element of torture porn involved in the framing of these scenes; they're deeply melodramatic and unforgiving in their displays of sadism, violence, and dehumanization.
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IF WE WERE VILLAINS (Flatiron, $25.99), a melodramatic but satisfying debut by M. L. Rio, takes as its subject the only infinite writer we've had yet, no matter how hard Karl Ove Knausgaard pushes — Shakespeare, of course.
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As standards of schooling and literacy improved, so workers and peasants became enthusiastic readers, with the expansion of the periodical press spurred by the arrival of "popular" (often sensationalist) newspapers, while book readers devoured cheap, melodramatic novels.
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He's Scottish, and the latest in a line of soul-baked white British singers with broad, husky voices, a penchant for melodramatic songwriting and a copy of the Ed Sheeran playbook tucked away in their tattered wallet.
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One brief email exchange from somebody offering opposition research in the middle of a presidential campaign and the left is indulging their sick fetish of accusing the current administration of treason and coming up with melodramatic ultimatums.
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Inspired by "Madama Butterfly," Puccini's beloved opera from 1904 — which was based on a 1900 play, taken from an 1898 short story — "Miss Saigon" is as mechanically melodramatic as any theatrical potboiler from the early 20th century.
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I tweeted after my session with PES 2017 that FIFA, these days, with its new melodramatic "The Journey" story mode and Ultimate Team support, feels like a video game about soccer, whereas Konami's alternative is a soccer game.
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People who have read the book acknowledge that it's a touch melodramatic, maybe slightly trashy, and the perfect "beach read," because the plot revolves around the lives of PTA-perfect moms in an elementary school by the beach.
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The Brontë Society, which is responsible for running the famous Brontë Parsonage Museum and for promoting the Brontës' literary legacy, has existed for over a century, but it's been marred by melodramatic infighting for the last two years.
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The care in establishing this world meets its zenith when "Exit Music (For a Film)," Radiohead's most melodramatic song by several measures, strums to life and eventually climaxes along with the reassuringly bleak reveal at the episode's end.
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He has stretched his comedy muscles before, albeit in his typical melodramatic fashion...He co-starred with Daniel Radcliffe in the romantic comedy What If and alongside SNL veteran Tina Fey in This Is Where I Leave You.
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Whenever it rolled beneath her weight, he let out these fluttery, high-pitched moans that she couldn't help feeling were a little melodramatic, and then suddenly he pushed her off him and turned the key in the ignition.
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Thus a suspiciously melodramatic story of Leonardo da Vinci dying in the arms of King Francis I of France, bitterly lamenting his own lack of devotion to his art, reveals more about Vasari's attitude to work than Leonardo's.
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The WWF of the time was cartoonier than the other promotions of the time, with big men, bright colors, and a fever dream pitch to everything from the characters the wrestlers played to the melodramatic angles they enacted.
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Many viewers were particularly entranced by the feisty, often melodramatic pairing of the titular Carmilla Karnstein (Natasha Negovanlis) and her roommate turned lover Laura Hollis (Elise Bauman) — the couple was even dubbed Hollstein by their most devoted fans.
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MEXICO CITY — Emilio Azcárraga Jean, the chairman of Televisa, whose melodramatic telenovelas once hooked viewers around the world, will step down as the company's chief executive at the end of the year, the Mexican media conglomerate announced Thursday.
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A later scene in which Oleg finally got the imprisoned Dmitri to give up a name — with a melodramatic quaver uncharacteristic of the series — seemed to indicate that it is, indeed, the grocery investigation that's causing Oleg's problems.
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Bellini, who was just 26 when he wrote this work, delves below the melodramatic surface of the story to explore the conflicting emotions, seething resentments and pervasive regrets that the characters endure through his elegant, lyrically refined music.
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During her final years, as degenerative arthritis took a sledgehammer to her knees, the two of us would watch melodramatic Indian soap operas while eating achaar, South Asian pickles that her doctor warned were terrible for her health.
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The creator of that show, Luis Bravo, has fashioned a new one from the same cloth: flashy costumes, smoldering stares, melodramatic intensity and an acrobatic version of the titular Argentine partnered dance, executed by several pairs of performers.
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The book this movie is based on has no qualms about diving into the sudsy, gossipy, melodramatic world of filthy rich Chinese families and the young woman unlucky enough to find herself in the middle of it all.
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Cartoons often weather criticism for making violence, well, cartoonish, but BoJack uses the medium's leeway to instead show violence — whether physical or verbal — with a stark directness that would seem melodramatic in the hands and mouths of live actors.
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The rhythms of the storytelling and the action — first under the creator and head writer, Janet Tamaro, and then under Jan Nash, who succeeded her as showrunner — are unforced but engaging, pulling you along despite the occasional melodramatic excesses.
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Pursuing a plot that revolves around the fraught courtship of Peter (Richard Romain) and Maria (Tommye Myrick), Jenkins is more mellow than melodramatic, lingering over quiet moments and lovely landscapes rather than pushing the story from crisis to crisis.
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Nayeri's prose can be rich and colorful, bolts of words prettily unfurling; it can also be florid, melodramatic — she sometimes writes with a heavy hand as well as a heavy heart, particularly in the last third of her book.
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Not in the grand, melodramatic, sweeping-gestures sense of epic epiphanic reinvention (which I've come to distrust anyway), but in the daily sense: what it might mean to build a new life in midlife, in the wake of rupture.
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Why is it that every time Jennifer Hudson shows up, it feels like a completely different movie just walked onto the set and tried to tell you its melodramatic sob story when you just came out for some dancing?
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Actually, all you really have to do is read his book's introduction — a melodramatic narrative starring Cruz's Republican colleagues, who are portrayed as corrupt hacks trying to hoodwink their own voters, in contrast to the noble and principled Ted Cruz.
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That night, Kristina hints to Nick about having had a difficult past, but one that she cannot yet reveal due to the time constraints of their brief conversations—making her, in my opinion, an excellent candidate for a melodramatic Freeform spinoff.
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The film is simultaneously a world-building bonanza, a melodramatic anti-war parable with imagery that lightly evokes the Holocaust, and a high-camp soap opera that features Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Elle Fanning as three contrasting archetypes of femininity.
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NEWLY RELEASED BITTER RICE One of the most popular and melodramatic of Italian Neo-Realist imports, now on Blu-ray, Dino De Laurentiis's 1949 production stars Silvana Mangano as a vivacious migrant farmworker and Vittorio Gassman as a petty hoodlum.
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Quite often her subjects are women and the anxieties transferred to viewers are pulled from her own life, while fashioned in the LA-noir or lush and colorful melodramatic styling of Hollywood's most respected directors of the '40s and '50s.
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The movies accepted the defense's melodramatic depiction of the domineering father and pill-popping mother, but neither grapples with the accusation of sexual abuse, except to mention it as one of the most compromised and sensational claims from the trial.
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"All Is True" makes a serious attempt to consider Shakespeare as a husband and a father as well as a famous playwright, but is let down by its naff dialogue and melodramatic tone (he expires after a bout of loud coughing).
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Rather, Tacoma is akin to Andrei Tarkovsky by way of The OC, a meditation on loneliness, identity, and artificiality told through personal, albeit slightly melodramatic stories that would fit well on WB or in the pages of a YA novel.
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The Netflix-aired anime is the brainchild of Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig and stars Jaden Smith, Jude Law, and Susan Sarandon in its tale about a nouveau riche demon hunter who is fond of melodramatic monologues about sadness and fashion.
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They've registered their discontent in tweets, blog posts, talk-radio call-in shows—and in some of the more melodramatic instances, by burning their voter cards, making a symbolic break from a political party they say they no longer recognize.
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Though for a while this film was most famous for being "the movie that inspired the final scenes of Sleepless in Seattle," it's a terrific screen romance, full of big, melodramatic moments that Hollywood can't seem to make any more.
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He grew up listening to Southern rap—he claims to have an encyclopedic knowledge of Lil Boosie lyrics—and if there's a region that most clearly informed Greedy Giddy, it was the South's auto-tuned harmonizing and melodramatic trap instrumentals.
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Grevenius's script, with its clichéd melodramatic flourishes and ham-handed habit of signifying that malevolence via backward spelling (one character's surname is "Natas," oy vey), proves intractable to Bergman's mastery, which looks instead like super-competence with this hackneyed material.
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Melodramatic as they may sound, these responses reflect a rational understanding of what YouTube is, and what any social network is, really: a marketplace with goods and currency and winners and losers, governed by an all-powerful and unaccountable corporation.
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The show 90210 was abysmal; Gossip Girl was an outrage; Dawson's Creek was so melodramatic that it boggles the mind to think it was created by 30 to 50 adults in full-time jobs over a period of seven years.
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Originally called "Pressa" ("The Press"), this Icelandic series on Walter Presents is a melodramatic, sometimes hilariously unrealistic depiction of journalism that also captures the moment-to-moment texture of the newspaper business about as well as a TV show can.
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Yet, despite how much this premise sounds like it was ripped from the headlines as melodramatic bait for anti-immigration proponents -- especially given Penn's history of working for the Obama administration's Office of Public Liaison -- "Sunnyside" is a half-hour comedy.
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Lloyd Webber also has a "reputation as the guy who dragged the Broadway musical from its vitality and idiomatic urgency back to its melodramatic roots in European operetta—while also degrading rock music to a mere rhythm track," Gopnik wrote.
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And "Once Bitten" is straight up fantastic, reining in some of the show's most self-indulgent tendencies to further a story just as tense and compelling as that of any critically acclaimed drama anchored by a "brooding" (and, yes, melodramatic) man.
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We've spent six seasons watching dreamer Jess (Zooey Deschanel), pessimist Nick (Johnson), pragmatic Cece (Hannah Simone), melodramatic Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and lovable weirdo Winston (Lamorne Morris) make messes and find success in LA. And by "Five Stars for Beezus," everyone's reached their endgames.
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In the first 30 minutes, there's a melodramatic cutscene where some of them die, and the game plays it as though it's the final act of Mass Effect 2, where we're supposed to scream at the television while a beloved friend perishes.
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It's exactly the kind of chaotic, melodramatic news fodder that makes for prime internet joke-slinging: Trump, acting under the influence of his newly hired chief of staff John Kelly, reportedly allowed Kelly to axe Scaramucci immediately after Kelly was sworn in.
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Even though it was regarded as a 'teen drama,' Veronica Mars often transcended the erratic immaturity expected from the genre because it played out its soapy plots of melodramatic comas, torrid affairs, and shocking murders with a willingness to take things slowly.
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The director, Rupert Goold, collaborated with Mr. Bartlett on "King Charles III" and does even more nuanced work this time, with a Chekhovian sense of life caught in the moment compromised only by a first-act conclusion that tilts toward melodramatic excess.
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Their fitful attempts to reconcile grow a bit melodramatic by the end of the film, which was directed by Jim O'Hanlon and written by Leon F. Butler, though Mr. Elba has plenty of gratuitous opportunities to show off his well-toned body.
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In fact, had this movie been a silent film, it might have gotten away with its melodramatic conventions, as one of the first French talkies, released just as Jean Renoir, René Clair, and Jacques Feyder were coming into their own, it was doomed.
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Set in North Carolina in both the 1920s and the 1940s, this unabashedly romantic, highly dramatic (even melodramatic) musical, which I saw in San Diego in 2014, tells the story of the traumatic life of an unmarried young woman who gets pregnant, with complicated consequences.
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His DM performances—and being a dungeon master is a kind of performance—are often marked by excitable narration and winkingly melodramatic theatrics; at one point during tonight's game, he gleefully pounds a hand into a fist, mimicking an arrow's impact on an opponent.
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Pro tip: Watch the first two episodes before you make a judgment call.) What distinguishes Jane from so much other melodramatic fare (as a lifelong viewer of Bollywood movies, it was right up my alley), is an unwavering sincerity in the writing and performances.
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The show, Youth & Consequences (a title that sounds maybe a bit too relevant for YouTube these days), is definitely on the melodramatic side of things, but its overstated drama and big characters give it the look and feel of a lot of popular TV series.
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Try TV as a teacher Mashable's Brittany Levine Beckman swears by melodramatic telenovelas to learn Spanish, adding that listening rather than reading helps you pick things up quickly, and the pained facial expressions, overt emotions, and repetitious plots all work towards helping you understand.
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Amid a melodramatic plot worthy of Douglas Sirk, Olivia, seeking security, weds Bernard, a lovestruck toady with a savior complex, while Antonio suffers the moods of his wife, Danila, a harpy who has fallen under the spell of his ne'er-do-well Fascist brother.
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You feel the story's compression most in the second half, especially the melodramatic, rushed final episode, which works in both the story of George's son Tom (Sedale Threatt Jr.) — named, under duress, for his slave-master grandfather — and George's service in the Civil War.
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Avoiding the melodramatic tone of many other memoirs of the turbulent Cultural Revolution, she relied on understated, sometimes wry prose to recount everyday life at the "cadre school" for purged officials and scholars: digging a well, tending to her vegetable plot, befriending a puppy.
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Dressed casually, in jeans and a button-down shirt, he has a clean-cut look and real-life sweetness — he describes himself as a "Southern people-pleaser" — that contrast with the melodramatic nature of many of his characters and the sometime smuttiness of stand-up.
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Things reached melodramatic heights on Monday night when his rather overstated reaction to having his foot stepped on during Brazil's 2-0 win over Mexico earned him a round of condemnation in the soccer world and a tidal wave of playful derision on social media.
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The critical recognition she craved mostly eluded her — her best-selling novels "The Fountainhead" (1943) and "Atlas Shrugged" (1957) were lurid, melodramatic, full of implausible characters and turgid harangues — and as her fame and notoriety grew, she retreated to the safe harbor of her acolytes.
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There are considerable flaws in "American War" — from badly melodramatic dialogue to highly contrived and derivative plot points — but El Akkad has so deftly imagined the world his characters inhabit, and writes with such propulsive verve, that the reader can easily overlook such lapses.
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I know I'm not going to massively care about whatever story the dogfights of Ace Combat 7 are hung upon—at a preview event in Bandai Namco's London office, we're shown a trailer packed with Final Fantasy-like cutscenes, all serious faces and melodramatic voiceovers.
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Listening to it once I wasn't exactly knocked out—it seemed like every clean, clipped, post-Random Access Memories song Daft Punk were ever involved with, and every half-entertaining, over-melodramatic Weeknd song I've ever overheard while walking past an open car window.
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Between the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, two major awards shows, melodramatic pageant-girl feuds on The Bachelor, the battle of Fyre Festival documentaries, and 10 Year Challenges (are those over yet?), the first month of 2019 felt a whole lot longer than 31 days.
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Between those secret baby rumors (that were confirmed to be true), that whole blackface fiasco and that stunt he pulled on Rihanna at the 2016 VMAs — definitely coming on too strong — it's possible that a woman like Hadid wouldn't want any part of his melodramatic bullshit.
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As Moritz, whose problems are as much educational as sexual, Mr. Durant exudes a boyish sense of melodramatic frustration; his brutish father will not countenance anything less than accomplishment, and Moritz's struggles at school are met with a lack of sympathy that shrivels his vulnerable soul.
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If War occasionally lapses into mawkish, melodramatic moments it doesn't need (or that Reeves' and Mark Bomback's script can't fully support—apparently apes can be as corny as humans), War more than makes up for it with sequences of such eye-candy spectacle you won't cry foul.
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Citing the lessons and interventions of Hannah Arendt, Vance Packard and others, including the adman Rosser Reeves, Greenberg, a Rutgers professor of history, journalism and media studies, shows us the arc, from William McKinley campaigning from his front porch to the melodramatic Theodore Roosevelt to the present.
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The former teens made famous for cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway in top-down convertibles nodding along to Natasha Bedingfield and spewing melodramatic one-liners, like: "I want to forgive you, and I want to forget you," are now married, running businesses, and having babies.
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But since a series of exposé YouTube videos and melodramatic Instagram stories propelled them to become household names, there's a good chance you now know all about the contentious issue surrounding a vitamin company called Sugar Bear Hair, and how it tore a famous friendship apart.
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In an obscenely melodramatic op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Lance Morrow, a fellow at a conservative think tank, compared the accusations against Kavanaugh to the literal Salem Witch Trials, where women were murdered for being witches, as opposed to not getting a job they wanted.
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Cerbère means Cerberus in French, and at times I've wondered, in no doubt slightly melodramatic fashion, whether this place offers a glimpse through the portal to some approaching collective hell, be it an inferno of our own choosing or one forced upon us by ecological necessity.
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Music by the Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Guonadottir has a droning effect, mirroring rather than enhancing the dancers' melodramatic execution, in which an arm is raised wistfully, or a quick, darting spin ends in a semi-stationary pose, with a dancer's face sodden with emotion.
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"The Schooldays of Jesus" may stand as a riposte to the common charge that Coetzee's approach to fiction is cerebral and his prose dry, since Dmitri is the passionless Simón's antithesis: a supremely flamboyant vocal performer and, despite his Russian name, a classically melodramatic Latin lover.
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The story starts to veer off into tangents that are melodramatic (a fairly insipid Romeo and Juliet subplot involving Gigante's daughter), distractingly implausible (an episode built around attempts to fix a Cassius Clay fight) or both (a family member of Johnson's caught up in drugs and prostitution).
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A melodramatic voiceover and bright red screens emblazoned with text convey the letter-writing aspect of the story; to demonstrate the desire Kraus explains beautifully in her novel, actress Kathryn Hahn basically sits slack-jawed in a restaurant in awe of Kevin Bacon, who plays Dick.
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That season was framed by two historic disasters, the sinking of the Titanic and the beginning of World War I, and it was crammed with wonderfully outrageous melodramatic turns, including the death of dashing Mr. Pamuk (Theo James) and the bar of soap placed outside Cora's (Elizabeth McGovern) bathtub.
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As narrated by actor Paul Roebling over the strains of a weepy folk ballad, the letter is the foundation for the documentary's most iconic moment: a beautiful message from a fallen soldier to the wife he would never see again, indelibly stamped with Burns's florid, melodramatic presentation of it.
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It's easy to disdain this sort of broad narrative structuring — to call it, as critics already have, a Montana version of Dallas, which is often shorthand for "soapy" or "feminized" or "over the top," all characterizations that have been used for over a century to denigrate the melodramatic form.
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" (To be fair, accusing women of being paranoid and melodramatic for having reasonable wishes and opinions is the oldest gaslighting trick in the book.) Smith also posted a couple of snarky tweets, including a screenshot of her weather app saying it's 94 degrees with the caption, "Forecast: extremely feminist.
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When I found out Sadie Dupuis aka Sad13 aka the founder of Speedy Ortiz wrote a book of poetry called Mouthguard, I worried it would be unapproachable for me, a country bumpkin for whom poetry always came off as a little, how do I put this delicately, melodramatic.
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While Louie tries for the same balance, and often fails with routine dives into the morbid and melodramatic, and Master of None makes the same attempt yet fails with stilted dialogue and comedic timing that rarely dips below the surface, Atlanta, at least in its first two episodes, succeeds.
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This is a whole lot of mystery for someone who's voluntarily spent the better part of the past decade being trailed by a camera to turn their life into melodramatic guilty-pleasure television — so whatever the entrepreneur is gearing up to reveal must be worth keeping a secret for.
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Mr. Kelley was finding the structure of network shows limiting: "Sometimes, just by virtue of having to break it up into acts, you'd have this artificial, melodramatic moment to go 'boom' before you cut to the Dodge Ram commercial, just to make sure the audience came back," he said.
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The novel is about a Vermont newspaper editor, Doremus Jessup, who opposes a demagogic presidential candidate, Berzelius Windrip; it is a satirical and melodramatic cautionary tale, in which Mr. Windrip wins the election, imposes martial law and seizes control of newspapers; his regime arrests and even kills his critics.
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With a German libretto, Goldmark's absorbing, if unabashedly melodramatic, opera tells of a love triangle at the palace of King Solomon between Sulamith, the daughter of a high priest; her fiancé, Assad; and the Queen of Sheba, under whose spell Assad falls while on a mission for Solomon.
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In a twist that sounds melodramatic but plays out cleverly — it probably helped that Hivju and the show's creator, Kristoffer Metcalfe, started working on the idea for "Twin" in film school more than a decade ago — the brothers have serious accidents within a few hours of each other.
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The camera-shy Aussie songstress put on a very serious and cinematic affair, with Paul Dano, Kristen Wiig, Tig Notaro, and the startlingly expressive teenage dancer Maddie Ziegler all donning black-and-white wigs a la Sia herself and acting out melodramatic, abstract theatrical performances to the music.
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It borders on the melodramatic to say that Rory MacDonald will be fighting for his life when he steps into the Octagon to face Stephen Thompson in the main event at the sold out UFC Fight Night in Ottawa, Canada on June 18, but he's certainly fighting for his livelihood.
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But what angers me the most might be the people who still tell me I'm being melodramatic, that I should not be full-on freaking out, that Trump must be given a chance, because maybe he didn't mean what he says, or maybe he won't be that bad after all.
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It's a theory that's become a ripe breeding ground for rom-com tropes: the drastic post-breakup haircut, nights spent rambling at friends or out careening on the pull, and just about anything a Katherine Heigl character would do in a melodramatic "eating ice cream out of the tub" montage.
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Critics may have pushed back against its melodramatic beats, but the film has clearly resonated with fans, and my theory is that it's because it captures what it's like to be in love with someone who slowly chips away at your confidence and independence—something many people can relate to.
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For Star, which has maintained its leadership position in India's general entertainment space on a staple of long-running and melodramatic family sagas, "POW - Bandhi Yuddh Ke" is also an attempt to break out of the clutter and attract a younger audience increasingly lured by digital players like Netflix and Amazon.
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Whether it's his voice—comforting in its pitch and inspirational in its imperfection—the fact that every single video is filmed from a dog's eye view, or that people just really fucking love hearing the lyrics to "All Star" by Smash Mouth recontextualized as epic, melodramatic ballads, who can say.
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Even when you strip away the samples—which, from Underoath to The Microphones, help establish his identity as a sum of his interests like a Myspace "Influences" section—Lil Peep's songwriting is positioned firmly in pop-rap so well crafted it's difficult to fault outside of its melodramatic lyrical content.
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I was just as melodramatic with food, gagging loudly when I accidentally ran into a zucchini in a quiche, picking mushrooms out of pasta dishes and piling them on the side of my plate like dams, throwing out a perfectly good tuna melt if there were slivers of celery inside.
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Also, the truth is that for all the lyrical richness, melodramatic fervor and stylish evocations of Parisian courtly and theatrical life in 1730, this opera, the only one by Cilea that turns up now and then in production, needs all the help it can get from artists of Ms. Netrebko's stature.
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In this context, to suffer, she believes, would be melodramatic and self-aggrandizing, not to mention rendering her a person empathetically stunted when you consider real suffering like starving to death or stage four colon cancer or a baby rhesus monkey given a wire coat hanger to cling to instead of a mother.
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Tuesday night's "The Tell-Tale Heart," continued the teen drama's long parade of melodramatic shockers by revealing the FBI agent who has been terrorizing Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) for the last few weeks, Arthur Adams (John Behlmann), isn't an FBI agent at all — he is the Lodge family's favorite right hand man.
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His poisonous attempts to make jokes feed into the idea that those who allege and/or report rape are being melodramatic or cowardly, which in turn feeds into the idea that rape doesn't need to be taken seriously, which in turn feeds into the idea that hey, rape happens, just deal with it.
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Rather than include Yu Dafu's best-known short story, "Sinking" (a melodramatic first-person narration by a Chinese student in Japan in the early 1920s that blurs an individual's sexual inferiority complex into a collective sense of national humiliation), Huang chooses a movingly low-key essay about Yu's struggles as a penniless writer in Shanghai.
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You may have to resist the occasional eye roll, but the almost melodramatic turns of the plot are integral to the play's central theme, that the family of man is one family — a message as simple as it is profound, and (stop the presses) mostly ignored, whether in the 12th century or the 21st.
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Given his reputation as the guy who dragged the Broadway musical from its vitality and idiomatic urgency back to its melodramatic roots in European operetta—while also degrading rock music to a mere rhythm track—is it possible that, as his memoir indicates, his work might be more varied and interesting than we had known?
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"It would not be melodramatic to say that rural hospitals will close throughout the United States if this provision becomes law and certainly the necessary upgrades, or sometimes even new hospital construction that's necessary, will be delayed or restricted," said Charles Samuels, general counsel for the National Association of Health and Educational Facilities Financing Authorities.
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" Running just over its allotted 20 minutes, Queen reached for all of its extremes: the melodramatic piano-ballad opening of "Bohemian Rhapsody," the rockabilly swing (and tongue-in-cheek Elvis Presley impression) of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," the hard-rock chords of "Hammer to Fall," the drum stomp of "We Will Rock You.
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For all the surface richness of the music, stretches of this four-act opera feel thin, with soaring melodies that go on too long and melodramatic passages in which Respighi only glances at the more disturbing elements of the drama, which warns of the complications that can arise when the supernatural and mortal worlds mingle.
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In addition to the melodramatic, and yet quite sensational change in both weather and landscape, riders will also be confronted by one of the most hostile environments for motorcycling in the Himalayas, all the way from Narkanda, Sarchu, Jispa and Leh to Khardung-La that also happens to be one of the highest motorable roads in the world.
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In Oliver's words, "Waiting up is what we've done all our lives, waiting up allows me to stand here … at my end of our planet … for all I want is to think of you, and sometimes I don't know who's the one thinking, you or I." His melodramatic anguish is echoed in Aciman's swing at an emotionally satisfying conclusion.
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" – John Jay , Federalist No. 2 TIME OUT: WILD OUT WEST Paris Review : " Wild Wild Country , the true-crime docuseries directed by the brothers Chapman and Maclain Way , is a sprawling, melodramatic, tricky show that follows the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from his sixties-era ashram in India to a vast ranch in Central Oregon in 1981.
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It's a mix of updated racist artifacts (segregated park benches and train cars, being stopped for literal "papers" in the year 2029) and melodramatic set pieces, the kind of world where you know augs are oppressed because the police are randomly beating them in the streets and pedestrians keep talking about how much they hate them.
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But following the acid trip of hallucinogenic confusion, fake memories, and melodramatic plot twists that the rest of "The Final Problem" offers, the episode feels like window dressing on a completely different story — the haunted, lonely opium dream of three Holmes children who will never be fully able to tap into different, more authentic versions of themselves.
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At the same time, Mr. Annan was a consummate diplomat and unfailing gentleman who perpetually disappointed the wish for melodramatic confrontation with evil; he smoked cigars with Saddam Hussein after reaching a deal with him to restore nuclear inspectors in 1998 — not because he felt comfortable in the man's presence, but because Mr. Hussein wanted to smoke cigars.
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The choreographer Alexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of "La Bayadère" for the Staatsballett Berlin, which had its world premiere on Sunday night, is the latest in a series of Western full-length "Bayadère" productions that, since 1980, have shown how the Shades scene fits into this stylistically patchy ballet's melodramatic story of love, politics and religion set in pre-British India.
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In retrospect, the book seems like a pretext for its bitterly melodramatic, rageful title story — drawn from the author's own life — in which a devout Jewish survivor of pogroms, shattered by the death of his daughter, becomes convinced first that God has violated the terms of their agreement, and then that the contract simply wasn't airtight enough.
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Critics have called it a reverse Driving Miss Daisy, the Morgan Freeman-Jessica Tandy film that won the Best Picture in 1990 for its white-palatable version of interracial friendship, and accused it of being the worst Best Picture winner in 10 years -- since the elevation of "Crash," a melodramatic rehearsal of our worst racial stereotypes.
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As Elena Sheppard explained for Vox, Comey even filed a lawsuit trying to quash a GOP subpoena that required him to sit for a closed-door deposition, causing a confusing, "melodramatic" controversy: The long and short of it is this: House Republicans want Comey to testify about Hillary, and her emails, and Russia, and the 2016 election.
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Or if we want to be melodramatic about it, we could say Facebook is constantly tinkering with how its users view the world—always tinkering with the quality of news and opinion that it allows to break through the din, adjusting the quality of political and cultural discourse in order to hold the attention of users for a few more beats.
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Sometimes, when Vice Principals takes a step back from Gamby and Russell's melodramatic scheming to show us the horror on everyone else's faces, the show is less about two underlings trying to overthrow their leader than about how the kind of resentment they run on festers into something that doesn't just simmer but can boil over to become actively dangerous.
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Gone were the untimely outbursts and strange melodramatic claims and the bouts of over-romanticization and questionable technical acumen and overwrought catch-phrases and ungrammatical slips and occasional malapropisms we'd come to expect from UFC pay-per-view broadcasts, replaced by an efficient three-man team that was calm and succinct and appropriate and informative and damned professional, and yet strangely lifeless.
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Perhaps because they couldn't fall back as easily on mafia or narco clichés, Sollima and his collaborators came up with a framework for the American family — domineering father, children struggling to prove themselves in the business, sister fiercely protective of brother with degenerative disease — that's usefully melodramatic and gives Riseborough and DeHaan room to portray a real and subtly moving relationship.
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He becomes Kendall's de facto drug dealer (and gains a spacious loft apartment) and he becomes Tom's right-hand man and punching bag at ATN, which leads to a melodramatic confrontation—involving water bottles and snacks hurled in a fit of anger—when the two are sequestered in a small office after the threat of an active shooter in the building.
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The telenovela plot is a pastiche of stereotypes and melodramatic tropes of the sort one might expect from an author who did not grow up within Mexican culture, from a massacre at a quinceañera to the inexplicable choice of a relatively wealthy woman to leap onto La Bestia, a gang-controlled train — rather than just take a plane to Canada.
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"My Heart Will Go On"—that unfathomably popular song about watching your lover die in the freezing waters of the Atlantic due to an avoidable engineering failure, the cruelty of Billy Zane, and the carelessness of the White Star Line—was as soft-focus melodramatic as it was powerful (which is to say, very), and we saw no Céline but the lovelorn, ballad-singing Céline.
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"Scrupulous, compassionate and surprising," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, adding that if the film "does not rise to the level of Mr. Almodóvar's melodramatic masterworks — 'All About My Mother,' 'Talk to Her,' 'Bad Education' or 'Volver' — 'Julieta' is nonetheless a worthy and welcome addition to his canon, the double portrait of a woman perpetually on the verge of understanding who she is."
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And so The Family — the brainchild of Jenna Bans, a longtime TV writer and producer whose credits include the Shonda Rhimes dramas Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy — boasts a perfect storm of melodramatic possibilities: a grieving family, secretive Maine suburbia, an open-ended case, a man whose innocence is always in question, and even some "let's get back to family values" politics, because why not?
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Overshadowed at its release in 2001 by The Sixth Sense, which came out two years earlier and explored similar themes, director Alejandro Amenábar's Edwardian ghost story has only seen its reputation grow over time, thanks to fantastic acting by Nicole Kidman, plenty of genuinely creepy moments that still manage to feel fresh and undated, and the delightfully melodramatic grand guignol feel of every spooky set piece.
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" Baldwin's complaint about the characters (shared by Lorraine Hansberry) was that they embody "a white man's vision of Negro life," that they "veer off into the melodramatic and the exotic," that—a form of envy more germane to Heyward's psyche than to Gershwin's—they seem to speak "of a better life—better in the sense of being more honest, more open, and more free: in a word more sexual.
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It is a rare finite series (126 episodes of half-an-hour duration each), is an adaptation of an internationally acclaimed show (Israeli drama "Hatufim", which was also the basis for popular American series "Homeland") and is about war and its aftermath – a far cry from the melodramatic, often garish prime-time shows that focus on scheming mothers-in-law which are often criticised for their regressive themes.
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The tour we see him lead through the museum — the tour that, as it turns out, will be his very last — is a two-hander between him and a young, nameless woman (Letitia Wright), who pulls over on the side of the Black Museum's dusty road, walks in with wary curiosity, and refuses to flinch at Rolo's attempts to get under her skin with his melodramatic storytelling flourishes.
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Amid the morbid intrigue of Jack's still-unknown death, Kevin's all-but-confirmed impending pill problem, and Randall Pearson's (Sterling K. Brown) heartbreaking foster parenting missteps, yet another legitimately serious Pearson family complication feels heavy handed, even for the unapologetically melodramatic This Is Us. On the other hand, the news Kate is pregnant is an actual step forward for the character, and a way to keep This Is Us from getting far too dark.
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As for the Scots, they voted two years ago to remain in the U.K., though a key argument at the time was a desire to stay in the EU. "It's easy to sound melodramatic, but the European project is three quarters of a century old, and people take its peace and prosperity for granted," said Haass, an ambassador during the presidency of George W. Bush and an advisor to George H.W. Bush.
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