Sentences with phrase «in melodramatic»

The show includes seven sculptures and a series of photographs that function as characters in a melodramatic play.

SC: I am interested in the melodramatic aspect of your work — how would you say that affect has figured in the pieces you have on view in Song, such as the video Everness?

The show includes six sculptures, a series of photographs, and one video that together function as characters in a melodramatic play.

The experience condenses a movie trope, in melodramatic kung - fu scenes, and gives you control over all of the excitement with nary a learning curve.

She's a haunting character, and Larson plays her with a quiet, yearning tension that's quite moving, but the film works to simplify her very complex bond with her parents, even throwing in a melodramatic slow - motion run toward her dying father near the end.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the melodramatic swirl of the climax, in which, over the course of just a few minutes, LaBoeuf saves Mattie from strangulation by Chaney; LaBoeuf saves Cogburn from being shot by Lucky Ned (a very good Barry Pepper); and Mattie saves LaBoeuf and herself from pummeling by Chaney — only to fall immediately into a pit of snakes and need rescuing again by Cogburn.

Palmer, last seen in the melodramatic «The Choice,» makes an appealing heroine, and Bateman's terrified reactions are often palpable.

The kids are led by a pair of demonic teen boys, Isaac (an unforgettable John Franklin) and Malachai (Courtney Gains), but the community is far from stable: when a bickering couple arrive in town and are menaced by the kids, things escalate violently, culminating in a melodramatic showdown in which a demonic presence is summoned and fought in the cornfields.

The romantic angst between Katniss and her two suitors Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) is by far the least compelling aspect of the series, and last year's Catching Fire became hopelessly bogged down in melodramatic exchanges that did Lawrence a disservice.

In a melodramatic moment of random hysterics, Tulip convinces Dink to fire Beth.

The film can't grasp a consistent tone in its melodramatic depiction of true events.

The projects always start out innocent enough, but they usually end in melodramatic swearing and temporary life failure vibes.

What the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance it sure makes up for in melodramatic rhetoric.

Not exact matches

Back in print to coincide with the show's fourth season, the book offers a look at the era's ad business that's unencumbered by the TV show's melodramatics and attempted profundity.

This year, the BCIC - New Ventures Competition pulled no punches producing an expertly - made, if mildly melodramatic, video highlighting personal success stories in Vancouver — just in case you were on the fence.

The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

Griffiths accuses death penalty advocates of theatrics, while in fact his whole line of argument is melodramatic, as when he refers to executions as «blood sacrifices.»

There is, of course, a long and undistinguished tradition of lurid, melodramatic tales of masochism and smoldering sexuality in the monastic enclosure.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

But, in «Baskets», he tries something totally unique: Dark, melodramatic prestige TV comedy.

That Avatar «s melodramatic attacks on corporate interests and its defense of simple, natural living come packaged as one of the most expensive, and probably the most technically advanced, corporate films in history would seem to indicate that only quality bigger than the movie's stupidity is its head - in - the - clouds hypocrisy.

I've obviously written this off as overly melodramatic, as he's also afraid I'm going to die: in the bathtub (via electrocution from my Kardashian - watching devices), crossing the street (because I'm always reading emails on my phone), or because I never, ever exercise.

Some members of Missing (Parts) had come looking to make a statement, but it's not in her to be melodramatic.

Despite that rather melodramatic beginning, marathon running developed into a comparatively low - risk event, or at least it was until England's Chris Stewart, the third - place finisher in both the 1976 and»77 New York Marathons, turned the ancient Greek legend on its head and began running relief supplies across sniper - infested battle lines and into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia - Herzegovinia.

Perhaps slightly over-the-top and melodramatic, Barca's 4 - 0 defeat to Paris Saint - Germain in the Champions League this week was seen by some as a clear sign that it's an end of an era at the club and a rebuild is required.

Fishing the choppy waters off Alaska for crab is «the deadliest job in the world,» the melodramatic voice - overs repeatedly remind us in the Discovery Channel's 10 - part documentary series Deadliest Catch (set to debut April 12).

Game, Saturday: Prepared as they were, it is doubtful that either Darrell Royal or Frank Broyles was ready for the melodramatic game that unfolded in Austin Saturday.

Yes he's a great player when he's in the mood, but when things don't go his way, he sulks and throws his toys out of the pram, so if he wants to go, off you trot sunshine, I can't be arsed with your melodramatics any more.

This and less melodramatic examples of interspecies interaction are intended to illuminate the fact of our common community with animals and our duty to respect their rights and needs in exactly the way we would those of semi-dependent human community members.

Neither the refined nor the melodramatic way to play these characters is wrong, or any less entertaining, it's just they belong in different plays.

If he hadn't leaked the story in a very melodramatic way there wouldn't have been a run on the bank.

Completing the deal the nicer way robs Cuomo of a melodramatic finale, but he's nevertheless basking in positive headlines.

Now I don't want to appear melodramatic, but if you are well advanced in the third year of your PhD funding, you really do need to get out of the lab.

The climate models, far from being melodramatic, may be conservative in the predictions they produce.

We also get more Simon Pegg than in previous entries — which is good because Pegg can handle dramatic and melodramatic moments with the best of them while providing much of the M: I specific humor.

I agree that Raiden and Rose weren't exactly the most interesting bunch to listen to, but in the end of the game this terrible weakness becomes a shocking strength: Rose's inane, melodramatic banter has all been a petty construction - or has it?

Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

... eventually ditches its character - driven approach in favor of far - fetched plot twists and melodramatic contrivances.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form.

Overall the «lovelorn princess in a tower» gambit isn't just melodramatic, it's a dramatic oversimplification.

It is a shame the final, unnecessary five minutes feel the need to hastily re-sanctify Lincoln for a melodramatic sign - off, for this is a micro-study in restraint: the neat concentration of a staggering man, and Day - Lewis maintains a tantalising balancing act between flesh and marble.

A sappy, melodramatic Denzel Washington vehicle that ensnares you in the standard hostage - movie scenario and doesn't let go until the director runs the whole playbook.

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

The soap suds bubble through clearer than ever, the laughably melodramatic twists in the plot, the car chase, the conspicuous consumption of E.L. James's novels — who knew «If you write it, you will eventually own it, when the public eats this soft - core swill up.»

In any case, these people's melodramatic issues can not compare to those suffering under the heel of Apartheid at the same time.

Mark Pellington's latest is a melodramatic look at how we assign value to the objects that take up space in our existence.

Conflict doesn't have to be some huge melodramatic thing, but the total lack of inner conflict in Mary might be why «Mary and the Witch's Flower» — as transportive and entertaining as it is — feels a little slight.