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
So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist, who plays this one so straight and flat that neither he nor his hero can find any curative trouble for Duane to get into.
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
The melodramatist offers a double-headed reason, the first part being that the viscount is an amalgam of Satan and Don Juan and the second being that the young woman prefers death to dishonour.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
