Masters laughingly fell in with the other's burlesque melodramatic humour; continued: "I am a bear, but a tamed one.
His interruption was a continuance of his burlesque melodramatic style.
The most terrible, melodramatic things happened every day in New York.
To [42] It is particularly to be regretted that the original words for these melodramatic scenes have not been printed.
Footnote 42: It is particularly to be regretted that the original words for these melodramatic scenes have not been printed.
We may, indeed, doubt whether he had not some idea of a melodramatic delivery of the music, although there are no pauses left for spoken sentences, and the flow of the music, notwithstanding frequent changes of time is uninterrupted.
He made painting a didactic poem, the more melodramatic the better, and was driven thereby on the same sandbank upon which Hogarth, and all genre painters who would be more than painters, have made shipwreck.
It is just the same with his melodramatic and lachrymose "Cromwell.
With me, one of the symptoms of delirium is always a melodramatic truculence!
The melodramatic idea that a straightforward girl with honest intent is abducted by strangers and held by physical force in places of degradation can simply be dismissed from a discussion of the general situation.
One may take as an illustration of this drift towards the melodramatic the “Ring and the Book.
What perhaps distinguishes this movement from any previous one is the attempt to invest what is at bottom a melodramatic view of life with philosophic and even religious significance.
A study of this one figure as it appears in his words and ideas, in his characters and situations and subjects, would show that he is the most melodramatic genius for whom high rank has ever been claimed in literature.
If there are gallery gods in heaven, and angels with a melodramatic taste (as there must be, for how else could we have acquired it?
It is only the morbidmelodramatic tastes and incompetencies of an unfinished culture that make men think otherwise.
The Jews, in the course of their frequent and long continued intercourse with the Persians, did not fail to be much impressed with the vivid melodramatic outlines of the Zoroastrian doctrine of the resurrection.
The word could not be, with the appetites and habits of Charles Prades, taken in a figurative sense, and the young man continued his life of adventures, as tragic in their reality and as improbable as the reporters' melodramatic inventions.
A little march and three melodramatic passages lead up to an arietta for Fatima ("A lovely Arab Maid"), beginning with a very pleasing minor and closing in a lively major.
It seems too melodramatic to be true, but it is true: the dog was Sirius.
Yet it seemed a stupidly melodramatic conclusion, like the climax of a chapter in an old-fashioned, sentimental story.
And Duse comes into this play with a desperate resolve to fill it with honest emotion, to be what a woman would really perhaps be if life turned melodramatic with her.
Yet, as we may realise any day when Sarah Bernhardt acts before us, there is a certain kind of frankly melodramatic play which can be lifted into at all events a region of excited and gratified nerves.
Silence a la mort," replied Laurie, with a melodramatic flourish, as he went away.
He had no thought of a melodramatic plunge, but some blind instinct led him to fling hat and coat into his boat, and row away with all his might, making better time up the river than he had done in many a race.
Jo, with a melodramatic scream which was truly thrilling.
Laurie gave his broad chest a sounding slap and heaved a melodramatic sigh.
More melodramatic than tragic was a critical moment in the National Assembly when members sat with pistols held at their heads that they might not act foolishly.
This was a pathetic end for a great life that had held as many melodramatic as tragic events.
If you want to know, I can assure you that I don't feel any melodramatic vainglory.
Gossip, scandal, and crime lend themselves to melodramatic treatment as readily in special feature articles as in news stories.
Certain so-called sensational papers had gone a step further in these attempts to give added attractiveness to news and had emphasized its melodramatic aspects.
She was picturesque rather than penetrating, melodramatic rather than simple, a showman rather than a discerning interpreter of the inner meanings of life.
He skimmed its surface and found only the melodramatic and the sensational.
No; she was in love again, or she would not have made that melodramaticanswer to his proposal, which in all the circumstances was reasonable!
An Adelphi audience is not to be satisfied with a one-scene piece, when that scene is without any incident in it worth a melodramatic father's cuss.
