Sentence examples for a dramatic element from inspiring English sources

A tendency to break into dialogue may be a vestige of a dramatic element in nonliterary satura.

But perhaps more than that, he feels that jazz is suffocating from lack of a dramatic element and meaningful context in its presentation.

Opera has rarely won the prize, perhaps because in the compression of a jury-room situation it is difficult to ascertain the worth of an opera, which is meant not only to be heard but to be seen, with a dramatic element that can only be fully evaluated in live performance.

Of course, you still need to create conflict and a plot, if you're a traditionalist, but you're starting on stilts, maybe, because you have a dramatic element that a normal, two-people-drinking-coffee-and-complaining-about-their-bunions story doesn't have.

Also, there's a dramatic element in film.

The eleventh hour veto gives the Arizona scuffle a dramatic element, but the plot and the characters are hardly new.

There was often a marked dramatic element.

A tract, followed by the sequence "Dies irae" ("Day of Wrath"), is substituted for the Alleluia and often is a major dramatic element in the composition.

She burrows so deeply into the styles she embraces, especially gospel and its offshoots, that the music in her more serious scores becomes an organic dramatic element.

In both poems the dual form creates a sort of dramatic element within the poem.

Inside, the single dramatic element is a raking skylight, framing a horizontal strip of sky dissected by spindly tree trunks.