melodramatics's Usage Examples:

needed all the help it could get, as the plot was far-fetched and the melodramatics were stilted.

Too heavy with German stimmung it still is fun to watch the melodramatics play out in this tale of overbearing love, painful rejection, paranoia.

Critical receptionAmongst contemporary reviews, Variety wrote that the film plays the horror tale fairly straight so what's happening is not too illogical until the finale wrapup, when all restraint comes off and the melodramatics run amok.

easily avoids the former"s self-indulgent melodramatics and the latter"s vacuousness.

bases its appeal on a blend of small-girl sentiment, highly coloured melodramatics and ballet (the dance ensembles are very well done).

A critic of The Boston Globe felt the film gets nowhere in the telling and finishes its overdone melodramatics with a most unconvincing climax.

authenticity to the yarn which accents character study rather than melodramatics.

She and Blackie decide to stay in Hollywood anyway and continue with melodramatics in the daily comics and one-episode gags in the Sunday comics.

Crocker"s detractors and critics have accused him of narcissism, melodramatics, histrionics, and using Spears" personal shortcomings to bolster his.

Crowther wrote, "there is excitement and suspense in the gritty and grimy melodramatics," and concluded that the film, "though not distinguished, is entertaining.

super-city sleuths as well as movie-goers who"ve been through much the same melodramatics before".

"In-your-face "melodramatics" weigh down "Kahit Nasaan Ka Man"".

ReceptionUpon releaseThe staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, A closeup on prison life and prison methods, Brute Force is a showmanly mixture of gangster melodramatics, sociological exposition, and sex.