I am convinced that this positive programme, where a mother is not put in a position to choose between having a baby or a job, having a baby and losing means of subsistence, or having to make the most dramatic of decisions to resolve the dramatic dilemma.
The film's title Ex machina derives from the Greek drama device, "god from the machine," in which an apparently intractable dramatic dilemma is miraculously resolved by the appearance of some magical person or event.
The focus of Book Ten and elsewhere in the Analects also suggests that the primary locus of virtue is to be found in how people treat each other in the fabric of everyday life and not in the dramatic moral dilemmas so much discussed in contemporary Western moral philosophy.
Mr. Love has faced the most dramatic version of a dilemma many of his colleagues, especially the younger staff members in the White House, share: When do you stop serving the president and begin to chart your own way?
These books' basic traits, he thinks — "the dilemma, the dramatic crisis, the pathos, the wise sadness, and more in general a suffering made bearable, or even noble through aesthetic form" — have become mannered and artificial to the point of irrelevance.
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".
It's got all the slow motion pans, dramatic pauses and moral dilemma you could want from a cartoon.
After eons of dullness, the movie at last appears to come to a dramatic point with a real dilemma concerning father and son, a dilemma that is made to connect up with Rudd's prospects for ensnaring Witherspoon's heart.
As a moral dilemma, it never acquires dramatic momentum for two reasons.
But, as he has increasingly focused on ideas or moral dilemmas, he has scaled down dramatic action.
This means of expression is also present in his two other novels, in which Holmes uses medical or psychological dilemmas to further the story's dramatic plot.
