English Dictionary

oil opera

名詞

稀用

(rare, television) An amoral drama focussing on corporate and domestic struggles, the lead character being a businessman (or businesswoman) fixated on pursuing a resource by any means necessary.

日本語の意味

倫理や道徳を省いた設定で、企業や家庭内の権力闘争を描くドラマ。主役は、資源（石油など）の獲得にあらゆる手段を用いる実業家（または女性実業家）として描かれる。

The new hit series was described as an oil opera, a ruthless melodrama where corporate sharks and desperate families collide over a dwindling reserve.

その新作ヒット作は、石油を巡るメロドラマと評され、企業の強者たちと追い詰められた家族が枯渇しつつある油田を巡って激しく衝突する冷酷なドラマだ。

意味（1）

(rare, television) An amoral drama focussing on corporate and domestic struggles, the lead character being a businessman (or businesswoman) fixated on pursuing a resource by any means necessary.

The oil operas pretty much do away with questions of social conscience. There are no moral values as such, only instrumental values which either work or don't work in advancing one to still greater heights of wealth and corporate power.

oil operas （ plural ）