Both Uses of
melodrama
in
Main Street
- And I don't have any of the fine melodrama of fiction: the dictagraphs and speeches by torchlight.†
Chpt 11 *
- Above a marsh red-winged blackbirds chased a crow in a swift melodrama of the air.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(melodrama) a film or other drama with exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflict as good battles evil
or:
behavior with exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflict