Ozu also omits potentially melodramatic moments: Masako does not discover her husband's lipstick-stained handkerchief on screen, but instead recounts the discovery to her mother.

There are no melodramatic, flamboyant or soap-opera moments here, just scene after scene of black razor-sharp comedy.

Inevitably, the modern bits give way to melodic outpourings, those big melodramatic moments that Mr. Adamo seems to feel opera audiences expect.

John Toles-Bey and Michael Beach are particularly good as fellow inmates who never err by taking the film's melodramatic moments more seriously than they should.

Sometimes the director seems to feel more at ease with the melodramatic moments than the comedy ones".

But if its melodramatic final moments are ludicrous, they don't seriously dilute the acidity of the sour little swatch of urban sociology that has come before.

Cole later felt embarrassed that such a private, melodramatic moment was revealed to the Australian public.

It's a thrill to hear my song played during melodramatic moments in soaps.

Filled with abrupt and angled gestures, it hinted at a doomed life lived with intensity, but the solo was diminished by its melodramatic final moments.

Brother Verber basked in their uneasiness for a melodramatic moment.