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Definition of Melodramatics
1. [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodramatics
Literary usage of Melodramatics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"If the reader has been weary of this last episode, and waiting impatiently for
this sentimental old fool to have done with his melodramatics, he shares and ..."
2. The Illustrated Book: Notes on an Exhibition in the Print Gallery of the New by New York Public Library, Frank Weitenkampf (1919)
"... in such light and charming designs as his "Puss in Boots." In his "Oliver
Twist" series, on the other hand, his melodramatics fail to convince. ..."
3. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"... yet clever, trading in the biff-bang melodramatics and slam-bang farce stuffs —
but no reserve, no deliberation, no whimsey nor fancy nor beauty. ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"skillfully augment the melodramatics of modern crime detection with these terrors
inherent in our metropolises —Arthur Knight, Saturday Rev., 6 Nov. ..."
5. The Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Nordhoff (1920)
"I thought that I wanted to be killed, but Nature knows what is good for us and
does n't take any stock in our melodramatics. ..."
6. The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay (1915)
"If California has a shining soul, and not merely a golden body, let her forget
her seventeen-year-old melodramatics, and turn to her poets who understand ..."
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