Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of melodramas; a melodramatic author.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
writer ofmelodramas . - noun An
actor inmelodramas . - noun A
melodramatic person.
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Examples
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But everyone said, “Come on, you are such a melodramatist.”
2007 March : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2 2007
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But everyone said, “Come on, you are such a melodramatist.”
Oh, The Terror, The Terror! : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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He is a melodramatist who never penetrates below the surface.
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His success as a melodramatist may have been responsible for an occasional, unhelpful reliance on artifice, and for certain antiquated strains in the structure of books such as The Siege of Pleasure and Hangover Square.
Giddy & Malevolent Prose, Francine 2008
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He is a melodramatist who never penetrates below the surface.
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Either the editors made up the speeches, or everyone then talked as if they were aiming from the melodramatist of the year prize.
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The extraordinary cleverness and accuracy of his observation of those petty details that make life a thing of shreds and patches were all that distinguished his method from that of the melodramatist who makes a scene out of a buzz-saw or a waterfall, a locomotive or a ferryboat.
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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The melodramatist exhibits merely what may happen; the tragedist exhibits what must happen.
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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Of the melodramatist we require merely the negative virtue that he shall not lie: of the tragedist we require the positive virtue that he shall reveal some phase of the absolute, eternal Truth.
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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Thou art the only true melodramatist of the stage and off the stage!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various
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