His hatred of drama leads him at times to underestimate moments when dramatic crises demand dramatic acts, and his love of and natural instinct for reason make it hard for him to fully credit the depth of unreason in others.
Meehan describes the score as "a mixture of atonal and lyrical, with dramatic crises," while McClatchy compares it with that of Alban Berg, a model that is far from inappropriate: Wozzeck, like 1984, portrays the individual destroyed by the system.
On my way out of Santa Rosa, I saw people gathered among tents beneath an overpass and thought at first that they were evacuees, until I realized that they had been rendered homeless by older, less dramatic crises.
The processes that Ha Jin is concerned to describe — survival and adjustment in an alien land, the firming-up of a literary vocation, the emergence of marital and family harmony after the shocks of transplantation — are incremental, breaking into many small chapters but yielding few dramatic crises.
Tim Parks, writing in The New York Review of Books last year, complained of novels that made him feel "manipulated toward goals that are predictable and unquestioned: the dilemma, the dramatic crises, the wise sadness, and more in general a suffering made bearable, or even noble through aesthetic form, fine prose, and the conviction that one has lived through something important".
Bloom: Because most of the people I work with don't actually have a lot of money, it has seemed to me over the last 20 years that there was a significant number of people who, although they would go on having unresolved issues in their lives, most of their dramatic crises that led to really terrible outcomes in their lives would have been resolved if they had had $50,000.
They saved Ducati from a dramatic crisis".
This is as close as the picture comes to staging a dramatic crisis.
And no big dramatic crisis to neatly split the story in two.
Eventually these conflicting loyalties will force the movie to its dramatic crisis.
But the dramatic crisis in "Brick Lane" arises when, quietly and by accident, she discovers the limits of her endurance.
