Even if we don't remotely buy the notion that reality has been drowned by its simulations, we accept it as the melodramatic expression of a kind of truth.
Let's say intense, melodramatic expression that's aware of its potential for absurdity, an indulgence in the pleasure, the power, and the pretense of theatrical illusion, costume, and disguise together with an awareness of its silliness.
To judge from the film, contemporary fadistas (the word is used for men and women) are very much in touch not just with the genre as a musical tradition but also as a form of melodramatic self-expression.
Printed on glossy paper, bathed bright colors with melodramatic gestures and lustful expressions, the men possess six-pack abs, lean thighs and bulging biceps while the women are gifted with heaving bosoms, fair skins and curvy figures.
But enlarged and isolated, their expressions become riddles, intensely melodramatic and strangely touching.
Her expression is mournful but not melodramatic.
This band have never lost their passion for creating grandiose expressions of mortal dismay, however, and from its knowingly melodramatic title to the sprawling majesty of its sound, new album Feel The Misery is a triumphant statement of ongoing vitality from this veteran band.
In the past, the cruel, the macabre and the melodramatic have always been balanced and countered by the lives in which they found expression.
American painter whose works introduced contemplative introspection into the melodramatic post-World War II Abstract Expressionist school; his use of colour as the sole means of expression led to the development of Colour Field Painting.
But this seemed melodramatic.
