Sentence examples for melodramatics from inspiring English sources

Similarly, Mr Gibney does not resort to the emotivism and melodramatics associated with a traditional television exposé because the stories told by the ex-members are enough by themselves to indict the Church.The film does not dwell too much on Scientology's spiritual belief system.

Huston then decided to make The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966); however, the nearly three hours of Old Testament melodramatics he offered were little appreciated by audiences and critics (though Huston himself turned in an estimable performance as Noah).

It's to Chandor's credit that he contrives an ending that is both graceful and dramatic without lapsing into melodramatics.

In the Times, Bosley Crowther damned it with faint praise, writing that "Hitchcock, an old hand at frightening people, comes at you with a club in this frankly intended bloodcurdler"; he found it "slowly paced" and referring to its "old-fashioned melodramatics, however effective and sure".

Unfortunately, the script by Scott Stewart, who directed, and Peter Schink emphasizes stagebound melodramatics and banal television-style catharsis over action and humor; it's like "The Petrified Forest" (the 1936 film of Robert E. Sherwood's crisis-in-a-diner play) with assault rifles.

But the play's contrived plotting and overwrought language smother any such points in melodramatics.

She mocks the "trashy love story" and "slurpy, peculiarly glossy intensity" of "All That Heaven Allows," and called "The Tarnished Angels" "the kind of bad movie that you know is bad — and yet you're held by the mixture of polished style and quasi-melodramatics achieved by the director, Douglas Sirk".

Sweaty, musical, melodramatic and political, Cairo Station stars ballsy writer-director Youssef Chahine as a homicidal newspaper seller in Cairo's vast railway station.

The New York Times goes all melodramatic on the matter: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office underscored the stakes in a report Thursday that framed Washington's dilemma.

In his essay "Le Club des Hachichins", published in the Revue des Deux Mondes in 1846, he conveyed exactly the sort of melodramatic atmosphere such a drug, and such a place, was supposed to have.

But the final 15 minutes, in my view, were problematic: melodramatic in a way that Audiard usually sidesteps, and then anti-climactic.