After all, she is a teenage girl and they tend to be somewhat melodramatic, whiny and petulant. |
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Actors, directors and critics all come under fire as we are invited to laugh at the melodramatic play within a play. |
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You might say that Maddin directs in a genre all his own, remaking melodramatic movies that never existed. |
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Actually, despite its soddenly melodramatic moments, a lot of About a Boy is quite funny. |
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The 12 songs here reveal a band that's cocksure but never cocky, moody but never melodramatic and musically adept. |
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But however melodramatic or cartoonish Palmer's characters seem to be, their sentiments are real enough. |
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Folks, give a break to your sob serials and melodramatic movies this Sunday and stay hooked to Discovery as an extinct tiger comes to life. |
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The film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify. |
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She handles the final monologue tastefully, without slipping into vomitous, melodramatic overkill. |
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Most of you must know that Udayakumar, a contemporary of Rajkumar, was famous for his highly melodramatic performances. |
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The two young women end up giggling helplessly over the melodramatic dialogue. |
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I thanked my relative for her advice and chalked up the tears to her having a melodramatic midlife crisis. |
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So the melodramatic passions, the obsessions and the compulsions, seemed to arrive by ambush, like a sucker punch. |
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Taking offence, making a show of it, is a peculiarly self-theatrical, melodramatic, histrionic gesture in the annals of criticism. |
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Their melodramatic arrangements, cascading strings and faintly histrionic vocal performances reflected the films' camp excesses. |
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The average, mainstream American feature deals with grief by employing a mixture of histrionics and melodramatic manipulation. |
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On the negative side, the author's voice is too chatty and the dialogue is overly melodramatic. |
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He does well connecting with a scene, but often comes across as melodramatic and hokey in this silly musical. |
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What follows is a melodramatic romance doubling as a shallow history lesson, and that's just the first half of the picture. |
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A frustrated thespian, he enjoyed delivering long-winded, hyperbolic, and melodramatic speeches that rolled off his tongue in a rich bass voice. |
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But he thinks that their melodramatic idealism and close-minded fervor cannot be defended. |
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The calm humility present here allows us to be moved by the melodramatic aspects of the work more than they might usually. |
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As a production of the book and opera Carmen, Karmen Gai does offer some wonderfully melodramatic scenes. |
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He has paid his dues to the sentimental and the melodramatic, and is now ready to abandon these narrative modes. |
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Clearly, the melodramatic plot is a vehicle for the wacky characters and witty dialogue, and the performances are crisp and funny. |
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What was outstanding was the way the entire film was knit together with enough play of emotions without becoming melodramatic. |
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Eastwood is going to shift gears for the final third and turn it into a melodramatic weepy of the worst kind. |
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But somehow the melodramatic elements are transcended, and the movie moves you, as movies always should. |
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This plodding, wandering, disconnected story pulls out every melodramatic stop to tug at your heartstrings. |
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As for the role of men in this movie, let me say that, for the most part, they are not depicted as melodramatic villains. |
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The audio is solid, although the voice acting is overdone and melodramatic. |
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He returned to characters who offered identification even though it was mostly via melodramatic exaggeration. |
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The repetitions, sudden shifts in direction and melodramatic flourishes fit neatly into the frantic pace of the contemporary dance beat. |
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It would be in the hands of most directors, but Moretti doesn't allow melodramatic excess to infiltrate his story. |
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She leaves a suicide note, whose contents are held back until an appropriately melodramatic turning point. |
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But while Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet turned in melodramatic, cornball performances, Linney's was powerful and shocking. |
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They probably did so with melodramatic flourish, causing fear and speculation to run wild. |
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It would be a melodramatic exaggeration for me to say that I fight this battle within myself every day. |
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Characters disappear inexplicably and there is much melodramatic action, with farce never far off. |
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The narrative material is obviously shaped in order to wring the audience's melodramatic heart. |
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One was an attempt at exorcism, the other a rather more practical if overly melodramatic way of making the pain go away. |
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They've matured, shedding the preoccupation with teen angst that might previously have led them to be perceived as melodramatic. |
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In the process they have cut the worst of the sentimental and melodramatic elements to create a much tauter, more compelling plot-line. |
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His action had not only hurt this other person, but it also hurt me, because as melodramatic as it sounds, I almost started to cry. |
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These explore intensities of pain and emotion with melodramatic vigour and yet no soap character ever swears properly. |
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The acting is purposefully melodramatic and adds to the satirical atmosphere that runs through each scene. |
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Brendan heard himself being melodramatic and toned it down a couple of notches. |
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The darling of the French public retains his popularity with most, although he is lampooned by some for his melodramatic 18 months of denial. |
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A second goal was in the air and Ruud van Nistelrooy went looking for it with a melodramatic lurch to the ground in search of a penalty. |
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Nothing is gained, however, by calling melodrama, or melodramatic violence, morally corruptive. |
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While it toyed with serious drama, Moulin Rouge is injected with joyous melodramatic fun. |
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Frequently theatrical and melodramatic, it captured the tensions of wartime Britain, thriving in enforced isolation. |
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There are no melodramatic trills or fluting crescendos in her everyday speech. |
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It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong. |
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The lyrics may be a bit melodramatic, but on a whole, this is perfect mood music to go with candles and dimmed lights. |
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Though I might wax too melodramatic in saying so, Trust is even, perhaps, a story of what it is to be a flawed, human hero. |
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At this level, the book is remarkably sober, eschewing the melodramatic and avoiding definitive conclusions. |
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I screamed, and swooped off to my room in melodramatic fashion. |
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The watercolors depict the slugs engaging in melodramatic activities. |
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But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading. |
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It is full of moral speechifying and erudite detail and has a convoluted plot replete with melodramatic deaths and wonderful recoveries and coincidences. |
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Soap opera is the descendant of the melodramatic in televisual form. |
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You would expect to see those kinds of stories on a melodramatic TV drama. |
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He does a lot of gritty dark melodramatic flicks where hundreds of guys get shot down in crazy action scenes, then all the good guys die horribly in a tragic ending. |
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For a start, he's got a real temper on him, which some are marking out as a good attitude, but for a first proper Wimbledon appearance he seemed a mite melodramatic to me. |
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So, yesterday I was being a little melodramatic and very emotional. |
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I've seen the rolling eyes, I know they think we're being melodramatic. |
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My character is really melodramatic, in that one minute she is throwing a tantrum and the next she is laughing hysterically, but I wasn't at all like that. |
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But even paranoid melodramatic self-aggrandizers sniff out nefarious and tentacular plots from time to time. |
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I began to notice how shamelessly melodramatic this film really is. |
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It is conspicuously silly in places, with a chorus of Belfast millies incongruously inserted into the midst of the classical melodramatic and stylised family angst. |
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The irony here is that, while the film is too melodramatic by half, Lohan delivers a staggering performance. |
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There are no explosions, no melodramatic speeches, but this might be the most devastating death in the series. |
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He takes a relatively restrained approach to potentially melodramatic material and scenes in which she is unswayed by bribes or beatings make a considerable impact. |
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Tosca, of course, is a stunner, and verismo at its melodramatic best. |
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In her films, Wishman employs standard melodramatic plot lines and then inverts the parameters to impose illicit acts and criminal vice into the fray. |
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The audience heaved a big sigh of relief as the play finally ended with the anticipated melodramatic scene, worsened by actors who got carried away by their own histrionics. |
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The characters all speak in melodramatic, incomplete sentences as if they knew unspeakable horrors, but this tactic merely delays revelations that turn out to be quite dull. |
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It's from a theatrical point of view that she still loves teen angst for its poker-faced combination of melodramatic sincerity and unintended cringe humour. |
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He is exceedingly melodramatic when he is not being irritatingly tiresome. |
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The album opens with a melodramatic pseudo-classical orchestral flourish, suggesting that what you are about to hear has great profundity and import. |
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The voice actors on the Japanese dub tend a little too far toward the melodramatic end of the scale, though, so I can't recommend one track over the other. |
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But to Ali's credit, he doesn't overdramatise situations by making it unnecessarily melodramatic. |
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Every critic of this story has termed it melodramatic, varying only in whether or not they mean this term opprobriously. |
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Many are sloppily melodramatic and the show seems thrown at you unedited. |
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Director Park Chan-wook mixes Grand Guignol, black humour, melodramatic passions and stunningly choreographed action to remarkable effect. |
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Ranbir's performance as the deafmute hero was a mix of Chaplinesque humour and the standard melodramatic loverboy image. |
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It is melodramatic, and ends with the bard hurling himself to his death from the top of a mountain. |
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She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself. |
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The writing is sparest, even pointillistic, at the melodramatic climax. |
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I realise luvvie Lumley is regarded as a national heroine, but this was like being dragged along on a dull school outing by a melodramatic headmistress. |
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By the 18th century, Baroque art was falling out of fashion as many deemed it too melodramatic and also gloomy, and it developed into the Rococo, which emerged in France. |
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