Sentence examples for opera element from inspiring English sources

First of all, it has this great soap opera element that people find sort of irresistible.

"Suburban Shootout," a pretty silly effort, pushes the "Housewives" soap opera element in the direction of farce.

There's also a strong soap opera element to the other prominent story line, involving the poisoned relationship between Ms. Britton's Rayna Jaymes and her father, Lamar Wyatt Powers Boothee), a local businessman and political kingmaker.

"We really wanted to capture not only the intense beauty and sacrifice of the actual dance part of it, but, for the CW audience, more of the soap opera element".

There is an attempt at the end of the pilot to give the show a bit of a soap opera element that will be helpful to give the season a greater arc, but the strain to find new sources of humor outside of incestuous relationships, servant cruelty, and Lillian and Beatrice's gay husbands (Brian Huskey and David Wain) is already showing.

He also agreed that early on, the show had a little more of a "soap opera" element -- and that's a term he doesn't disavow or shy away from, by the way.

But the true appeal, Mr. McMahon said, comes down to "the soap opera elements, the entertainment elements".

They are elements appropriate to an opera, elements of love and death.

The space opera elements include a decaying galactic empire, heroes and villains of nearly superhuman power, and truly formidable monsters.

"The agile handling of the soap opera elements — conventional plotting at best — finally makes 'Wedding' a pop, facile take on Capulet versus Montague stuff, likable but square".

In a signal that NBC and the show's producers may believe the future of "Smash" lies more in its soap opera elements than its inside look at the creation of a Broadway musical, the new guiding creative hand on the series is going to be Joshua Safran, an executive producer of the glossy CW soap "Gossip Girl".