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psychodrama

noun

Definition of psychodrama

as in melodrama

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Recent Examples of psychodrama In exerting this apparent influence, Rubio has somehow avoided becoming either a media fixation or a major player in the right’s unfolding psychodrama. — Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2025 The other is a patchy, unpersuasive psychodrama about the underlying motivations and years-later ramifications of an unspeakable act—or, in this case, an unrealized plan to commit an unspeakable act. — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 Political 'psychodrama' Deutsche Bank analysts noted how Burnham partially rowed back some of last year's comments on the bond markets, highlighting his comment in February that they should not be ignored. — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 15 May 2026 Unlike Magazine Dreams, the modest but satisfying Test avoids the lurid descent into violent psychodrama that swerved into hallucinatory Taxi Driver territory and undercut that film’s integrity. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for psychodrama

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Noun

The plots of Roman romance novels are full of heightened melodrama.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
The ongoing war between woke and anti-woke factions is a fatuous melodrama best left to the satirists.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of melodrama

Noun

The studio also confirmed new projects in development, including reimaginings of Tom & Jerry, Thundercats and Meerkats, and Prehistoria, an original musical from Hazbin Hotel creator Vivienne Medrano.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2026
Of course, bringing an original musical to New York is no small feat.

— Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026

Definition of musical

Noun

New Zealand actor and comedian Jemaine Clement is having a moment thanks to recent reunion gigs for Flight of the Conchords, his musical comedy act with Bret McKenzie, and co-starring role in buzzy Disney+ relationship drama Alice & Steve.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 June 2026
Frankie stars in the musical comedy, a parody of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic set to a score of songs by Céline Dion.

— Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026

Definition of musical comedy

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In her performance of Francis Poulenc’s operatic monodrama La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice), Hannigan turned that problem — and many more — into an advantage with a couple of technological aids.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
At the end of mountain stages, a delicious monodrama always unfolds.

— Thomas Curran, Time, 8 Aug. 2023

Definition of monodrama

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His warnings contrasted starkly with the brief but glorious interludes of culinary fabulism that punctuated our travel down South.

— Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
And young Bochner is understandably queasy in his delivery of the poetic lines he’s been handed for these same interludes.

— Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026