melodrama

Bratton discusses a melodramatized version titled "The Lear of Private Life, or, Father and Daughter, founded on the famous novel by Mrs Opie." Based, as the title indicates, on a novel by Amelia Opie, this production portrays Cordelia as a girl seduced into elopement; she returns home an unmarried mother to find her grief-stricken father broke and mad from her absence.

Macmillan has melodramatized the character's gesture of supreme indifference into the mimic language that the post-Fokine ballet d'action, having renounced the finger language of the nineteenth century, borrowed from the evolving silent cinema.

[4] Grant is not melodramatized, his tribulations are not sentimentalized, like those of Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), or even Turner and Hooch (1989) or Richard Gere in Pretty Woman (1990).

9 that Oprah Winfrey "melodramatized" the mad cow disease scare but did not give false information about it or defame cattle producers.