The phrase "a dramatic plea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an urgent or emotional request made in a theatrical or intense manner.
Example: "The actor delivered a dramatic plea for peace during the final scene of the play."
Alternatives: "an emotional appeal" or "a fervent request."
In the documentary Mr. McTiernan — one of several people who say they have been abused by Rove-driven prosecutions — makes a dramatic plea for an airing of its claims.
Despite a dramatic plea from relatives of victims killed at Sandy Hook, as Mr. Applebome notes, the legislation did not include a complete ban on high-capacity magazines, although it did include a halt on future sales of high-capacity magazines with more than 10 bullets.
But despite a dramatic plea on Monday from relatives of 11 of the victims killed at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14, legislative leaders did not include a complete ban on their ownership, although they agreed on new requirements requiring their registration.
Actor Mark Ruffalo issued a dramatic plea to the pope to use the new film Spotlight, which chronicles the investigation into widespread clerical sexual abuse in Boston, to "begin to heal the wounds sustained not just by the survivors, but all the people that lost their faith because of the revelations".
One of the characters in the video makes a dramatic plea to let them play games and enjoy the virtual world of the internet without government interference.
Note: The burrito story probably sounded like an endorsement of Adderall, while the power-napping one probably sounded like an over dramatic plea for naturality.
At the same time, crossing the ocean for a dramatic personal plea on behalf of his adopted hometown involves at least some political hazards.
Foreign secretary William Hague is considering making a dramatic public plea for the return of the last former British resident held inside Guantánamo Bay, as fresh reports indicate that the treatment of prisoners within the camp continues to deteriorate.
Playwrights have tackled the messy subject of war at least since the Greek tragedians did, and if their dramatic pleas for peace have gone largely unheeded, the dramatist's compulsion to write about the topic has hardly waned.
The former Lostprophets singer Watkins was branded a "determined and committed paedophile" by a judge at Cardiff Crown Court after he pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 11 sex offences, including two charges of attempting to rape of a baby in a dramatic change of plea.
Then in a dramatic change at the 11th hour, he changed his pleas to guilty to all but one of the 24 charges he faced.
