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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

Some of the chapters are conceived in all the author's shameless artfulness as a melodramatist.

From Time Magazine Archive

O'Neill the sometime melodramatist could not have improved upon his own beginnings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here again his instincts and methods as a melodramatist assert themselves: he warms to the struggle and plays his lash upon his conspiring priests in a mood of mingled duty and delight.

From Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Doren, Carl Van