Goodwin, convicted of killing her husband, declared her innocence and danced her passion; she had a retro look and a dramatic strength that blew her co-murderesses away.
Like Bradbury, Delany picked up on the banality of the dialogue (in Delany's phrasing the characters are saying nothing meaningful), but Delany regards this as a dramatic strength, a prelude to the rebirth at the conclusion of the film.
If chatter is your preference — if you would readily swap James the international voyager for the more contained prowlings of James the social animal — then Gorra will meet your needs, with a roll call of the supporting players from whom "The Portrait of a Lady" drew its dramatic strength.
Mr. Strassberger, the director, is also focused on the work's dramatic strength, not imposing a concept on it but responding to its unusual qualities.
Rather, like the best of his contemporaries, from Turkey to Mexico, he registers the tensile dramatic strength inherent in his homeland — a tug of war between the old dispensation, with its blend of dark atavism and consoling piety, and the lure of the new, which, however rational, is not without horrors of its own.
Not only did I feel like I was experiencing a reawakening to the stunning breadth, incisive depth, and dramatic strength of Verdi's score (Luisa Miller premiered on December 8 , 1849at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples), I could also hear clear hints of musical phrases that would be further developed in La Traviata (which premiered on March 6, 1853 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice).
As Natalie, Ms. Tomei had the required dramatic strength.
And while Mr. MacLachlan and Mr. Stewart have isolated moments of dramatic strength, their performances are largely one-note.
Much of the novel's dramatic strength lies in such conflict, but so, paradoxically, does its central weakness.
On their dramatic strength alone, each series promises to add to the sharply increased television audiences that have followed the playoffs this spring.
Extremely amusing and acutely observed, the book and film gain dramatic strength and satirical thrust from using Thomas Hardy's first Wessex novel Far From the Madding Crowd as inspiration and armature.
