Sentence examples for dramatic curiosity from inspiring English sources

Playing across the foyer from the National's purpose-built Shed, Luigi Pirandello's little-known 1916 play, "Liolà," has entered the repertoire of the midsize Lyttelton as a dramatic curiosity that only intermittently connects and then mostly when the composer Orlando Gough's onstage musicians strike up the band.

But whether it's so you can tick this one off your list of dramatic curiosities or you actually surrender to a narrative that mixes the pulpy and the passionate in equal measure, I would seize the chance to engage with a work that near its end even references the "long day" that O'Neill later addressed in the summary achievement of his mighty career.

Both "Just Air" and "Engagé" were so strongly danced that their dramatic ambiguities roused curiosity rather than exasperation.

But if the contemplative quality of "the whisper opera" comes from its quietude, its dramatic tension comes from the curiosity the piece sparks among audience members who want to know what Ms. Arnold and the instrumentalists are whispering about.

Until recently nanotechnology has been at best an academic curiosity, albeit one with dramatic promise.

Gleiberman added that while Johansson is silent for most of the film, "... the interplay on her face of fear, ignorance, curiosity, and sex is intensely dramatic".

Owen Gleiberman, for Entertainment Weekly, wrote of her "nearly silent performance", observing, "The interplay on her face of fear, ignorance, curiosity, and sex is intensely dramatic".

The transition generation has an intense curiosity about how others have navigated this dramatic era of social change in the lives of women.

Last month, an event in a remote corner of our universe, another contemporary reminder of this timeless curiosity, hit the international headlines with the dramatic verification of a concept first predicted by Einstein in 1915: gravitational waves.

Most American writers who do venture overseas, rather than opening themselves to the unknown with curiosity and respect, drag otherness home, using it to incite dramatic heat — or farce.

Antonioni films London with a keen curiosity, capturing the serene, practical, and rigidly hierarchical street life in dramatic scenes of theatrical elegance.