21 adjectives to describe melodrama

"Our little melodrama, my lady, is drawing to its close.

R68147, 11Oct50, Margery Youngman Carter (A) & William McFee (A) THE BLACKMAILERS, a farcical melodrama in three acts by Barry Conners.

What Potterish minds you and I must have, Jane, to have built up such a sensational melodrama out of an ordinary accident.

"And," cried she, with conscious melodrama in the fiery twinkle of her eye"and, I know all!

Its publishers (who may be prejudiced) consider The Avalanche as "a brilliant and engaging study of mystery and romance;" me it impressed as a melodrama dependent on one long-heralded sensation, which proves on tardy arrival an affair of disappointment.

But for this fact, one could quite well conceive a fascinating melodrama constructed, like a detective story, with a view to keeping the audience in the dark as long as possible.

Here may be traced, though softened by the charm of genius, (which softens all things,) the splendid errors that belong to a passionate youth, and that give such distorted grandeur to the giant melodrama of "The Robbers."

Maud, a lyrical melodrama, paints the changing emotions of a lover who passes from morbid gloom to ecstasy.

If he once begins by attempting passing expressions of passion, which is all stage portraits can give, he will find them so much easier than honest representations of character, that he will end, where all our moderns seem to do, in merest melodrama.

Sheridan's patriotic melodrama, produced May 24, 1799, at Drury Lane.

Ought we, then, to despise it because of the element it has in common with the picture-poster situation of preposterous melodrama?

That dressing-gown really makes you appear quite like a heroine of provincial melodrama.

This was pure melodrama, she knew.

One could loaf in a hard chair in front of the hotel, lose a dollar or two at the shabby pool-room, or go to a movie show and see pictures of frankly ridiculous Western melodrama.

[Footnote 3: This phrase, which occurs in Mr. Haddon Chambers's romantic melodrama, Captain Swift, was greeted with a burst of laughter by the first-night audience; but little did we then think that Mr. Chambers was enriching the English language.

After all, Life, wherever one sees it, is, if one has eyes, a wonderful pageant, the greatest spectacular melodrama I can imagine.

Even the vulgarest melodrama or detective story can be good if it expresses something of the delight in sinister possibilitiesthe healthy lust for darkness and terror which may come on us any night in walking down a dark lane.

Duncan himself, in an attitude of intensely affected melodrama, was spouting "Is this a dagger which I see before me?

It is not an ideal or a specially selected audience; but it is somewhat above the average of the theatre-going public, that average being sadly pulled down by the myriad frequenters of musical farce and absolutely worthless melodrama.

You have stolen your ideas from cheap melodrama, and you make tragedy ridiculous.

Another of these fine critics declared that he never could believe in Irving's Hamlet after having seen "part (sic) of his performance as a murderer in a commonplace melodrama.

21 adjectives to describe  melodrama