Example Sentences

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The wisdom lent by this experience—of being a couple struggling with degenerative illness while collaborating on a film about that very subject—may be what gives Still Alice its quiet, unmelodramatic directness.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2014

Johnson’s style is low-key and determinedly unmelodramatic, with a limited use of music cues or attention-getting camera moves.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2014

It's virtues appear so simple – convincing characterisation, unmelodramatic script, careful build-up – that you wonder why they're not more often seen.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011

Yet Devereux was a remarkably unmelodramatic fighting man.

From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense

The particular skill she had obtained—and this is the test of an actress worth remembering—is the art of acting scenes essentially melodramatic in an unmelodramatic manner.

From Charles Frohman: Manager and Man by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick