melodrama
noun
a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
melodramatist
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a word derived from
melodrama.
Example Sentences
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But, Luft writes, the studio had no interest in turning her into an adult melodramatist; her childlike image was what they were promoting.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2017
Mr. González-Iñárritu’s film, which sounds like a change of pace for the Mexican melodramatist, bookends the festival with a closing-night film by the veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2014
The tenements that preoccupied Riis, a moralist and social reformer, are taken for granted by Weegee, a melodramatist, who treats the city as no more than the staging ground for each night's blunt sensations.
From Time Magazine Archive
This scheme is as wild as any ever manufactured by a Victorian theatrical melodramatist and if Chabrol's plot reminds us of antique theatrical forms, so do his characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no true tragedy in Euripides, He is a melodramatist, but not according to the modern acceptation.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
