单词 | melodramatics |
释义 | melodramatics, n. pl.|mɛləʊdrəˈmætɪks| [f. melodramatic a.] Melodramatic behaviour, action, or writing.
1915Nation (N.Y.) 11 Feb. 161/2 We do not know when we have witnessed so disgusting a misuse of Federal authority, heightened as it was by the melodramatics with which Dr. Allen took the stand on his own behalf. 1929J. C. Powys Meaning of Culture 374 No tricky affectations or morbid self-consciousnesses, no melodramatics with regard to art or with regard to one's own originality. 1959Economist 7 Feb. 493/1 The melodramatics of ‘massive resistance’. 1959Times 19 Oct. 6/7 Then it [sc. a film] falls back defeated, although the melodramatics are exciting enough. 1963Guardian 18 Sept. 20/4 No melodramatics had followed Mr. Macmillan's receipt of the Denning report. |

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