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
O'Neill the sometime melodramatist could not have improved upon his own beginnings.
From Time Magazine Archive
No melodramatist ever poured out incident upon the stage from such a horn of plenty.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
