Sentence examples for a dramatic act from inspiring English sources

The exposition was opened by a dramatic act when Pres.

That homecoming set the stage for a dramatic act of resistance to slavery.

I think it would be a dramatic act of historical rectification that would resonate with Catholics".

In a stunning first act climax, Mr. Grimes transforms tap dancing as razzle-dazzle into a dramatic act of defiance.

But in a dramatic act of solidarity with the gunman, every witness, save the dead man's wife, denied seeing who had pulled the trigger.

A dramatic act of protest by a simple, apolitical man in an obscure place: the story could have been written by Silone or Malraux.

Levison's lawyers argue that the order for Lavabit to turn over its master keys "is a truly dramatic act," akin to "commanding the City of Richmond to give the police a key to every house within the city limits" in search of one man.

Major self-injury, usually observed in people in a psychotic state, is a one-off dramatic act with major consequences such as self-enucleation or self-castration.

He died later that night at Parkland Hospital in Dallas -- leaving behind a trail of notes and a lifetime of activism to offer an explanation for his dramatic act.

Of Macron, he roared, "He talks to us about the future, but he doesn't have children!" Many people have fallen for the notion that Marine's expulsion of Jean-Marie from the Party, in 2015 — he had made the latest in a long series of comments dismissing the Holocaust — was, as the Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote, "a quite costly and dramatic act of political purgation".

The star's long, looping orbit is likely a residue of that dramatic act of cannibalism.