melodramatist
- 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
Some of the chapters are conceived in all the author's shameless artfulness as a melodramatist.
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 exhibits merely what may happen; the tragedist exhibits what must happen.
From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
