Sentences with phrase «so melodramatic»

The phrase was so silly, so melodramatic.

Which it is; The Light Between Oceans is so melodramatic.

Maybe its part of what makes it seem so melodramatic?

Nor am I talking about a «moral decay» or anything so melodramatic.

«A-Rod's affairs do seem so melodramatic, so rehearsed, it is difficult to know where the rhetoric ends and the revelations begin,» columnist Harvey Araton wrote.»

Why are our fans so melodramatic.

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Am I the only one who thinks these bits of graffiti were deliberately put there by a Jew to further their melodramatic «victim» - hood so they can keep banging the drums while continuing to discriminate against non-Jews?

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.

I stumble so often, I get cranky and melodramatic and self - important.

bit melodramatic if i may say so.

It's early days so do not take anything I have stated as being too melodramatic, any negatives are exagerrated somewhat by a small hangover.

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.

So try not to get too melodramatic.

Though visually beautiful and boasting superb performances from the entire cast, Black Swan, much like the ballet Nina so adores, falters because of its emphasis on melodramatic style over substance.

I do wish Mr. Robbins's one - note co-stars had been worthy of his performance, and that some of the melodramatics hadn't been quite so slapdash.

On the contrary, it's so waterlogged with the stuff that every melodramatic plot twist wrings out a few more drops.

I got so tired of his character's constant freakouts and overblown melodramatics.

But this is one slow - ass «novel,» in which no one ever cracks a joke and potentially melodramatic moments (a fairground ride collapse, the initial accident, a suicide attempt) are so painstakingly crafted to avoid splashiness that any momentum is killed.

Douglas Sirk is a particular director that Haynes is emulating and recreating his melodramatic soap opera's like Imitation of Life or All That Heaven Allows is so convincing that you'd be forgiven for questioning whether or not you're watching a contemporary film.

The story definitely lends itself to being a tad melodramatic, and the director doesn't really temper those moments with anything understated, starting with when Joey has to plow a field full of rocks so he can save Albert and his family's farm.

With a screenplay and original scenario from Stephen King, regular King collaborator Mick Garris» 1992 film sticks in the mind long after its conventionally melodramatic and violent finale, because its opening hour is so sexually bizarre and tonally berserk.

But Carol is not melodramatic and it's certainly not lurid — it's so contained it's practically sealed shut.

If the general outline of the story sounds melodramatic, it is and proudly, unapologetically so.

But even during this more dramatically charged second hour, Lee's touch remains restrained and subtle (save for overtly metaphorical shots of ice cubes and ice cube trays), eschewing melodramatic confrontations, ever - so - subtly building to the moving finale, which is exquisite in its deceptive simplicity: in just one singular action, Lee deftly ties up the film's themes of family and belonging.

The new film feels like a capstone, a summation of everything Diaz loves about and finds so profound in Dostoevsky, a transmutation of the writer's melodramatic genius into grist for his more distanced, more emotionally chilled films.

The romance works rather better than the thriller element, as the plot becomes so convoluted and melodramatic it gets rather silly and never seems to be sure whether to takes itself seriously or not.

In truth, all five are first rate, so I chose the one I enjoyed the most, a romantic drama directed and performed at a melodramatic pitch.

Unfortunately, Egoyan allows his film to take a melodramatic, third - act turn that extinguishes much of the tension he so successfully builds in the first half of the movie.

There's a lot more stuff, both funny and not so much (Curtis frequently confuses sincerely touching and melodramatic).

The script never deals with this melodramatic action film trope with any of the same guts, guile or wit it attacks so many other facets of cinematic comic book storytelling.

It's an audacious 15 minute segment that instantly establishes itself as the highlight of the film and unfortunately ensures that what comes after feels awfully anti-climactic, with the eye - rollingly melodramatic and sentimental third act certainly exacerbating this feeling (it also doesn't help that there reaches a point at which the movie could logically end but chugs along for another 20 minutes or so).

No one was more surprised than I to discover that a guy like me — a 40 - year - old Canadian dad — was able to become so enthralled with a game about melodramatic, adult - loathing Japanese teens that I would willingly and eagerly invest more than 100 hours in their story.

The moment, so weakly melodramatic that Violet would likely roll her eyes at it, lacks the fluid self - awareness that Wells does an able job of capturing in the more tightly confined scenes (especially in the play's infamous dinner scene).

The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where our critic called it a «slow - ass» movie that never «cracks a joke and potentially melodramatic moments (a fairground ride collapse, the initial accident, a suicide attempt) are so painstakingly crafted to avoid splashiness that any momentum is killed.»

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.

It's not anything remotely approaching realistic, but it is dramatic more so than playing for laughs, elaborate action pieces or the requisite comeuppance of melodramatic moustache - twirling villains.

«Warrior» is a sports melodrama, so calling it melodramatic is merely descriptive, not pejorative.

So I think, without being overly melodramatic, that it could have catastrophic consequences to the industry, to customers and stakeholders.

There's so much melodramatic FUD un that video, it's ridiculous.

In comparison, large chunks of Rise of... are so deliriously melodramatic they've may as well have been written by the team behind Hollyoaks.

Ok, so I'm being melodramatic.

Thus while his early landscapes, mostly completed in the 1820s, reflected his genuine appreciation for the beauty and naturalism of the American wilderness, his later paintings, completed during the 1830s and early 1840s (and strongly influenced by JMW Turner), reflected his fear that American materialism would destroy the scenery he loved, and so became more allegorical and unnecessarily melodramatic.

So like The Black Cat before it, The Violet Crab at DRAF opens its doors to questions of how the erotic, the melodramatic, and the tragic might satirise the rules of production in the present.»

I was actually dreading her going back so I had a word to the principal and new teacher for this year as it was all too melodramatic for me to mng and yes like you I just kept fast forwarding to age 13.