Sentence examples similar to thin melodrama from inspiring English sources
So yes, this concert performance of Show Boat made clear how much this war horse of a musical needs the spectacle of sets and costumes to put over its era-spanning trajectory and distract from the paper-thin melodrama at its heart.
The first half of the book is good, if predictable, science fiction, with a thin coating of melodrama -- the race to Venus -- wrapped around a core of information about the forbidding planet.
Dismissed by others as the creator of kitsch, choreographically thin ballets that trade in melodrama and fake spiritual epiphany.
It seemed somehow lightweight, thin, despite all the fine language, melodrama and music.
From its satiny pink floral opening credits to its absurdly tragic climax (followed by a choral rendition of a song that declares, "There is no happy love," which at this point is stating the obvious), this film treads the boundary, thinner than a silken thread, between melodrama and farce.
Both writer and director evidently appreciate the thin line that divides credible drama from incredible melodrama, and everyday sins from crippling crimes.
(And it's too bad that in this thin version of London all that's left of the human race is whiter than the demographic for melodramas on the WB channel.) The movie might have been a minor classic if it had maximized its own possibilities.
"Trapped" is pure melodrama.
Life was imitating melodrama.
