melodramas

You only find characters as unrelievedly bad as Hilly in melodramas and soap operas.

Reader reviews of The Help by Kathryn Stockett. 2009

Its waxed ends twirled upwards as is mandatory for cuckolds in French farces and was identical to the one worn by villains in English melodramas.

Nutrition 2010

Its waxed ends twirled upwards as is mandatory for cuckolds in French farces and was identical to the one worn by villains in English melodramas.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Not state documents such as melodramas use to keep the villains sweating -- they did not come in reams, so far as Johnny knew.

The Thunder Bird B. M. Bower 1905

"It definitely doesn't have Minnelli's kind of lavish touch that was in his musicals and melodramas."

Somewhere, Over the City Bruce Bennett 2011

Minnelli remained in Hollywood, making musicals and melodramas for the next quarter century.

Somewhere, Over the City Bruce Bennett 2011

Then many of the children were enlisted for weeks in a daily workshop, not to teach them "acting" (for that they already knew from hundreds of overacted Indian film melodramas), but to teach them how to behave naturally in front of the camera.

Salaam Bombay!: 20 years before Slumdog Millionaire 2009

We get to know the “owners” and become quite acquainted with the running melodramas of the place.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

As with the story of the unhappily bleached black people, these little racial melodramas smack of willful contrivance.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

There have been tart knife-edged satires like Dr. Strangelove and weepy but powerful melodramas like On the Beach.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011