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.
"That included the dramatic demands," Mr. Schonberg said.
Even in rehearsal, her command of the part's huge musical and dramatic demands is sensational.
As with many diffident people, he quite enjoyed the dramatic demands of such rituals.
At a recent rehearsal he gave a shout-out to his cast members as they negotiated the show's musical and dramatic demands.
Which undercuts Henry's dramatic demand for objectivity from the Archbishop: God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, That you should fashion, wrest or bow your reading..
The leaders are calling for handgun registration and licensing -- a reasonably dramatic demand -- but they are not even insisting that the president sign on.
And though critical opinion was divided over the opera's musical merits, everyone acknowledged the vocal and dramatic demands of that role.
This is one hell of a burden for them, and it places hefty dramatic demands on the writers and directors of "Still Alice," Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, who adapted the novel by Lisa Genova.
In "Ondine" and "La Bayadère," which I caught a few months ago, she brought her usual intensity and integrity to the performances but did not always meet the dramatic demands of roles very different from those she grew up with at City Ballet.
