Sentences with phrase «little melodramatic»

I'd thought reports children were crying with disappointment were a little melodramatic until I stood before the pathetic displays.

I get a little melodramatic late at night).

I know it sounds a little melodramatic, but the thing that finally pushed me to leave the corporate world was Sept. 11, 2001.

My only quibble with the novel is that occasionally the love story becomes a little melodramatic.

Okay, perhaps that's a little melodramatic, but still, one day I'm confident the existence of this flick will either raise us to the role of deities in the eyes of our galactic brethren, or they'll swoop in and blow every one of our asses up with energy weapons.

OK, maybe I'm being a little melodramatic, but I'm sure you've all experienced that sinking feeling as yet another short online dating relationship draws to an untimely (or indeed timely) close.

I know that all sounds a little melodramatic but it was really fantastic and I don't even think I can express properly how and why.

Well, that my be a little melodramatic.

Maybe a little melodramatic, I know.

But I think it's a little melodramatic to claim that we have no idea whether warming up helps.

-- is more than a little melodramatic.

Not exact matches

For something a little more soap opera / melodramatic try BLACKBERRY DAZE at the Robeson, for zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youth.

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.

The reason many cinephiles loathe, as much as love, the fall movie season and its attendant Oscar hype is movies like Little Children, a piece of melodramatic malarkey that carries itself with an air of profundity unjustified by its contrived, pedantic, and phony narrative and aesthetic spine.

That's another thing about Leigh, that he never appears himself to be making any kind of overt judgments on his characters, or even preparing any kind of melodramatic reveal of their hidden natures) the film brims with uncomfortable little touches.»

For all its contrivance and soupçon allure — it literally milks the premise for every drop — it does fall a little out of step in the third act as it trades in squibs and send - ups for a melodramatic subplot.

Besides, what's wrong with a little imperialist, cliché, melodramatic romance now and then?

Evans» dialogue is generally effective, although it occasionally comes off as forced rather than authentic (some of this stuff is just a little too on the nose and melodramatic).

Less melodramatic than 1991's similarly themed Little Man Tate, it's got the understated charm of Webb's (500) Days of Summer, but little of its originLittle Man Tate, it's got the understated charm of Webb's (500) Days of Summer, but little of its originlittle of its originality.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

It looks good, sounds good, the creature looks totally convincing and the scale of it can be awe - inspiring (though Alexandre Desplat's score gets a little too melodramatic when Godzilla shows up).

Stone struggles a little with the play's most melodramatic elements, but generally finds sharp modern - day equivalents for its tale of two families riven by class struggle and buried secrets.

Apparently one of the best kept secrets of 2008 was the fact that Sam Mendes was working on another movie to immediately follow Revolutionary Road — something a little less melodramatic and Oscar bait - y.

The mystery is interesting, so is the law, but the movie gets a little overblown and melodramatic at parts (especially the subplot about Dershowitz fighting to keep two poor guys from getting executed.

Part melodramatic and depressing, there is little to enjoy, in a tale that captures a dark transition from post WWII America to an instantly angry 60's society.

Some readers may find A Thousand Splendid Suns a little too melodramatic and sentimental for their tastes.

is pretty melodramatic, and a little nonsensical besides.

While the story can be a little slow and melodramatic at times, Yakuza 0 never takes itself too seriously.

You get to watch Cinna and Marcus going to save Blank, you get to see Kuja fall even more in love with his melodramatic self, and Disc 2 even starts with a Shakespearean - style aside with two comic relief character with very little bearing on the story itself.

Not being melodramatic, well just a little.