Sentence examples for by the dramatic substance from inspiring English sources

Doubtless impelled by the dramatic substance of this music drama, he succeeded in evading the cadence, or coming to rest, that traditionally defined harmonic direction.

Nonetheless, Iñárritu doesn't hesitate to subject him to actual physical ordeals and to integrate them into the dramatic substance of the film.

In the later operas of Giuseppe Verdi the voices often have a parlante character (imitating speech through music) while the orchestra defines the dramatic substance.

Rage is not only the consequence of events in "King Lear" but part of the play's dramatic substance.

And "Les Sauvages" offers little dramatic substance — the conflict is resolved almost as soon as it is set up.

Later, in an amusing touch, bloodied heroes, completely nude, are sponged by valkyrie-nurses during the Ride of the Valkyries, but this and other novelties add little of dramatic substance.

The two works showed that harmonic dissonance was hardly a requirement for dramatic substance, partly because he redefined when dissonance was warranted.

These, of course, are all achievements, by the Hollywood measure of success.To say that anybody in this picture, including Mr. Curtis, gives a performance that approaches credibility, let alone dramatic substance, would be an act of sheer generosity.

Although they glittered, they had little emotional or dramatic substance.

His presidency has repeatedly been marked by the dramatic.

Now, it is surprised by the dramatic slowdown in hiring.