This awkward blurring of the real and the artificial both parallels and feeds off another dramatic confusion: that between private and public life.
Most famously, there's the finale of Act II, one of the longest uninterrupted spans of music that Mozart ever wrote, seamlessly building the tension, the dramatic confusion, and the number of characters on stage, for 20 minutes.
Acute lesions of the posterior medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) or structures directly connected with it may induce a state of dramatic reality confusion in human subjects: The patients confabulate recent experiences that never took place, are disoriented, confusing the time, place, and their current role, and enact ideas (e.g., going to work) that do not apply to current reality [1], [2].
The most dramatic illustration of America's confusion, contradictions and degraded credibility is its inability to stop the forward motion of the Palestinian bid for U.N. recognition.
When computers crash, network congestion causes delays, and poor user interfaces trigger confusion there are dramatic consequences for individuals, organizations, and society.
He also sat down with Harrison for a taped interview that aired during "Bachelor in Paradise" on Aug. 22, sharing his and his family's hurt and confusion at the dramatic media reports of the situation.
Revised for a future CD, the music conveyed a dramatic arc that encompassed grief and confusion, joy conveyed through rollicking pratfalls and giddy dances, and a quiet ending of stark, powerful eloquence.
In some cases, this parceling out of roles leads to confusion and can distract from dramatic flow.
Either of these directors would have pushed the confusion to some kind of dramatic or comic peak, but "The Comedy of Innocence" is content, like Ariane, to wander and brood.
And just like an overly dramatic plotline, it brings unnecessary complexity and confusion where clarity and focus is sorely needed.
This confusion played out on a more dramatic scale in November, when a man was stabbed to death on a D train traveling through Midtown on an early Saturday morning.
