Voorbeelden van melodramatic

• The accompaniment draws on all the topoi of melodramatic rhetoric, but makes particular use of instrumental solos identified with a particular character.

• Their storylines are slender, and either whimsical or mildly melodramatic.

• The overlap between gestures of interiority and the conventions of melodramatic display makes it difficult to imagine a deportment of interiority.

• To make it more palatable, he conforms to melodramatic conventions.

• The combination of melodramatic pathos and ethnographic curiosity had an unquestionably broad marketability, and not just for theatre.

• Yet, paradoxically, through utilizing melodramatic convention, dramatists were able to focus attention on the plight of the child worker.

• This emphasis becomes apparent only when melodramatic convention is read comparatively against the play's revisionist treatment of a well-known historical subject.

• Instead of melodramatic confrontation industrial reformers advocated a language of respectful negotiation among reasonable men, with differing but not necessarily incompatible interests.