The phrase "dramatic emergency" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation that is sudden, urgent, and possibly intense or emotional. Example: The city was in a state of chaos and panic as emergency responders rushed to the scene of a dramatic emergency: a multi-vehicle crash on the highway.
The result, we now know, was that the number of "complicated'' deliveries – caesareans, forceps, ventouse – rose dramatically, and many mothers who could have had a straightforward births ended up having a dramatic, emergency intervention to get their now-distressed unborn child safely delivered.
After Nielsen found a lump in her breast in mid-June, the Air Force made a dramatic emergency mission to drop diagnostic supplies so she could treat herself while waiting almost 4 months for the antarctic spring to allow her to be evacuated (ScienceNOW, 8 July and 6 October 1999).
The IDF's dramatic emergency response to Haiti is another emphatic and much admired example.
The most dramatic emergency to occur during the course of the partnership was Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
At the least, in any dramatic, emergency situation, it is obligatory that the leader is present ('the captain is on the bridge').
But donors are more willing to stump up cash for dramatic emergencies than for prevention, where success is harder to measure.
8 58 p.m. | Updated There was a dramatic avian emergency in Midtown on Thursday afternoon, and City Room did not have to go far to report it: a juvenile red-tailed hawk smashed into the five-story glass atrium at The New York Times Building, fell to a fourth-floor landing, then fell again to the courtyard four stories below.
The students confirmed a dramatic PPH emergency was unfamiliar to them.
But now, as the news cameras are packed up and the crews leave the beaches of Asia, it is to us to take lessons from this most dramatic of emergencies and apply them to our efforts on behalf of the children of the world.
— JFK Library (@JFKLibrary) 15 Apr 13 — ROBERT MACKEY The Boston Globe has posted dramatic video of emergency service workers and bystanders rushing to help victims in the immediate aftermath of the explosion near the finish line of the marathon on Boylston Street.
Cosmo claims that after asking its readers what they look for in their method of transportation, it was told "a place for impromptu karaoke performances, last-minute wardrobe changes, dramatic gossip sessions and emergency lunch-hour kips".
