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n. (plural of horse opera English)
Usage examples of "horse operas".
They tend to be more grandiose and larger in scale than horse operas, because the science fiction writer has the whole universe of interstellar space to work with, instead of one dusty Western town.
Most of them were stultifying horse operas-rural colonial melodramas-or sentimentalized war stories.
I had always disparaged Hollywood horse operas for being overly melodramatic when, during the Indian attack, the hero runs out of ammunition save for a single cartridge each for himself and the heroine.
Scooping a glass of champagne from a passing tray, he wandered along the walls, admiring the framed stills from the couple's many horse operas until someone signaled for attention.
He spoke English with an accent partly French, partly southwestern, as if he'd learned the language by watching a lot of horse operas.