We tend to think of procrastination as being motivated by more melodramatic emotions: fear of failure, the terror of being judged, etc.
A huge box-office success, it initiated a series of action films that won Woo international acclaim for their unprecedented mixture of expressive slow motion, nostalgia for lost codes of honour, Christian symbolism, melodramatic emotions, and hyperbolic violence.
Even the usual outpouring of melodramatic emotion that accompanies the memorial tribute to notables who passed away in the previous year was muted — in fact, its droneful flatline seemed to flow together continuously with the rest of the program.
The prose itself showcases every pitfall writing instructors warn against, telegraphing its melodramatic emotion, relying on unlikely coincidence throughout and reaching for figures of speech that had to be hackneyed even in Collins's day.
Even the usual outpouring of melodramatic emotion that accompanies the memorial tribute to notables who passed away in the previous year was muted in fact, its droneful flatline seemed to flow together continuously with the rest of the program.
Their tastes, he adds, are often quite sentimental and melodramatic: big emotions fully realised, rather than psychologically real.
"I didn't want it to be melodramatic and milk the emotion too hard, but I also didn't want to water it down so much that it didn't have any dramatic impact," she said.
In his quest to make his poetry authentic, he often descends to melodramatic reporting on his own emotions: "I feel lonesome, / And sick at heart, / Frightened, / And I don't know / Why".
Jassin found the characters to resemble caricatures, as their emotions were overly melodramatic, but considered the novel representative of works yet to come.
Rockwell also had a taste for melodramatic behavior or events, exaggerating emotion and emphasizing tension or action at the expense of more carefully individualized character studies.
The most original independent filmmaker to surface in the past few years is Josephine Decker, whose second feature, "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely," unleashes torrents of emotion from an exemplary melodramatic story.
