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Belgium/UK duo Lunabee and Joanna Swan describes their music as "Melodramatic Popular Song/Trip Hop/Electronica" and that's pretty accurate.
Boing Boing 2009
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Melodramatic and predictable, "Winter in Wartime" wants to be tough but settles for compellingly familiar.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Winter in Wartime Marshall Fine 2011
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Melodramatic, unrealistic, but those high school students kicked some authority butt.
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Melodramatic and predictable, "Winter in Wartime" wants to be tough but settles for compellingly familiar.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Winter in Wartime Marshall Fine 2011
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Examples of Melodramatic Said-Bookisms berated – this should be obvious. cursed – this is only stilted as a tag.
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Yeah, in defiance of the hoariest cliche in the Big Bumper Book of Onscreen Melodramatic Cliches, have your characters wander into the House of DeathFilled WithPossible Anomaly Monsters, unarmoured, unarmed etc etc.
Primeval Season 3: What The Hell Happened? – Updated « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009
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Actually, I think both is the way to go–the dark and sparkly songs of Ships (who categorize themselves on myspace as “Melodramatic Popular Song,” which, yeah) would go nicely with the Oldominion 10 year anniversary party ($10, 8:00, with Grayskul along with The Saturday Knights) happening across the street.
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Melodramatic and megalomaniacal, Hillary, like Joan, is an aging super star whose career is on the wane, but she refuses to exit the stage.
Shaun Jacob Halper: The Diva's Camp: The Appeal of Hillary Clinton 2008
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Melodramatic sap and the plain confessions of love; this is characteristic of romance novels i.e. women's porn than of Austen--those who go to such excess are criticized by Austen, not praised for 'being themselves' and showing their feelings.
Lost in Austen, Episode 3 papabear 2008
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Melodramatic sap and the plain confessions of love; this is characteristic of romance novels i.e. women's porn than of Austen--those who go to such excess are criticized by Austen, not praised for 'being themselves' and showing their feelings.
Archive 2008-09-14 papabear 2008
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