Sentence examples for brisk dramas from inspiring English sources

The shift in Swanberg's work is as drastic as the shift in Rossellini's — and yet, there's an essential and decisive continuity between the earlier, more overtly raw work and the brisk dramas that followed.

There's a wide swath of city life condensed into the movie's brisk drama.

For my money, "Lincoln" is the best picture, because conveying brisk drama in the tedium of legislative maneuvers that ended slavery is no small thing.

The daring real-life second world war mission to assassinate SS general Reinhard Heydrich is the basis for this brisk and bracing drama.

His BBC broadcasts from the Second World War are written in the style of his brisk, confiding drama criticism, popular journalism of a high order, simple narratives well related.

This brisk, amusing costume drama revolves around an elderly Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and an Indian Muslim (Abdul Karim) who became a beloved attendant in the final years of her life, despite the Royal Household's bigoted protests.

LIGHTS IN THE DUSK The pleasures and paradoxes of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's method are richly revealed in his brief, brisk, yet dour new drama.

In brisk outline Mr. Bock's drama resembles one of those disease-of-the-week television movies so easily derided (and furtively enjoyed), in which happy middle-class lives are upended when a calamitous illness comes stalking.

As a play, Abby Mann's post-Holocaust drama is too brisk and trim for its own good.

"Drama" is a brisk book, packed with funny stories.

Hiromi Uehara, the pint-size piano dynamo who performs under her first name, has a penchant for brisk bedazzlement and hyper-articulated drama.