Sentence examples for horse opera from inspiring English sources

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horse opera

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A theatrical production, film, or program on radio or television depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western.

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You decided all of a sudden to make it a horse opera?

Mayo's last good horse opera was Westbound (1959), starring Randolph Scott, tightly directed by Budd Boetticher.

But cult status is measured in devotion, not just availability, and in that category Joss Whedon's combination of space opera and horse opera ranks near the top.

But Cole is no flat white hat and this no horse opera: it's a rite of passage story which does not lead toward the light.

If your expectations are low enough, even a paunchy, muddled, overstuffed horse opera can start to feel like a triumph of sorts.

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Their corny cinematic tales became known as "horse operas" and "oaters".

And back in the early 1990s, there were two different postmodern horse operas about the sagebrush legend Wyatt Earp.

This earnest, weird little place is named for the arid part of Tuscany where Sergio Leone filmed his raw horse operas.

He puts the sentient simians on horseback and lends them the hand gestures and pidgin English of Native Americans from myriad horse operas.

You don't get much breakfast-booth banter in the four Hebrew horse operas being screened Tuesday night at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan.

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