Sentence examples for a dramatic lead from inspiring English sources

West, however, was listening to the bidding and selected a dramatic lead: the diamond queen.

When they don't evoke vintage Von Bondies, they suggest the Killers or, in the case of a dramatic lead single, "Pale Bride," the British band Bloc Party.

The failure of last year's Transcendence ($103m on a $100m budget) underlines the awkward possibility for Depp that he has never been a viable proposition as a dramatic lead outside the arthouse.

After smaller roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's earlier films, he became a dramatic lead and then a skilled comedian, giving us all great difficulty when trying to define exactly what he is.

Johnson has a dramatic lead over Livingstone on charisma (49%14%14%), but the latter is seen as the one most likely to "stick to what he believes in" (31% – 28%), and who is more in touch with the concerns of ordinary people (33%11%11%).

If that is bad news for a musician, it's worse for a dramatic lead, and, as though to compensate for this lack of energy at the core, the Coens plump up their peripheral figures — people like Roland Turner John Goodmann), a jazzman who is given not just a pair of walking sticks, like the lawyer in "The Lady from Shanghai," but a drug habit and a funny toupee to boot.

Choosing a dark, almost funereal color by the British paint company Farrow & Ball called Down Pipe, they transformed the lifeless walls and the floors into a dramatic, lead-gray backdrop.

A further ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph gave yes a more dramatic lead of 54% to 46%, but its significance was played down since its sample was only 700, under the normal threshold of 1,000 voters.

And one potentially breaking new ground for Depp: mainstream viability as a solo dramatic lead.

Know what it will take to be a team captain, dramatic lead, first chair, class president or yearbook editor, and prepare yourself to assume those kinds of leadership positions.

Assad's position has been further strengthened because his ally Russia has clearly taken a dramatic diplomatic lead.