Sentence examples for dramatic imagination from inspiring English sources

But the loss to the dramatic imagination, at any rate has been immense.

The trouble with the sex in most movies isn't a matter of prudery but of a stultifying failure of erotic imagination — and of dramatic imagination.

James Ingalls's lighting effects were uncharacteristically predictable (blood-red for violence, etc).. Sellars got urgent performances from the singers, but his usual leaps of dramatic imagination were absent.

The invitation was later rescinded when the event was changed, but the offer itself was news, a victory for the power of the dramatic imagination.

We couldn't rightly expect Lean's stern pictorial glory, or the vital dramatic imagination of a Fred Zinnemann ("From Here to Eternity").

More and more, it seems the American dramatic imagination has curtailed itself, choosing to avoid the horrific events through which we are living today.

We have become so acclimated, so habituated to the idea that running a marathon is achievable that it has become, in our dramatic imaginations, not a triumph in itself but the preliminary, the setup, the premise, to a more dramatic story.

Moody and dramatic, his imagination and formidable Photoshop skills produce "unique realities" the he says represent "places from my dreams, desire, imagination, and fears".

So doing, Coyle brings an enlivening spirit to a piece that many directors, including Ashford and Branagh, try to claim as their own by layering it with ideas about culture, about history, about marriage, which have less to do with reality than with their failure to even approach what Shakespeare was able to achieve through his imagination: dramatic truth, the freedom of the born storyteller.

But the Gore camp is coming to believe that it needs to do something dramatic to catch imaginations, especially since Gov. George W. Bush, who holds a strong lead in most polls, will probably be riding pretty high when he comes out of the Republican convention with his own running mate two weeks earlier.

In 1851 they published Poems of Sentiment and Imagination, with Dramatic and Descriptive Pieces.