But Rossini — even at 18, when he wrote "La Cambiale di Matrimonio" ("The Marriage Contract"), his first professional opera — showed a preternatural talent for transforming stock subjects into tight musical and dramatic machines full of nuance and originality.
- We never thought of Rube Goldberg machines as dramatic until we watched one be narrated on Japanese TV. - Comparing an iPhone 7 plus to a movie camera.
There are dramatic smoke-machine-propelled entrances and apocalyptic battles between Good and Evil played out on invisible trapezes.
To answer such questions is to tell why tennis spread from a mere tea-hour pastime on private lawns to scatter its courts about the grounds of colleges, clubhouses, hotels; to sow them in public parks and even in the midst of stone cities, and to become one of the most dramatic of machine-age spectacles.
The band's dramatic smoke-machine entrance was met with meticulously choreographed stage lighting, broadcast cameras, and at least 30 alt-yuppies holding flip cams.
Released as the second single off his 1980 album Metamatic, this video hits all the requisite New Wave bullet points: contrasting colored lights, smoke machines, dramatic silhouettes and mysteriously present venetian blinds.
"No one tells you how dramatic massive amounts of machine gun fire is.
Collins would further explore the dramatic potential of drum machines, both with Genesis and, of course, on his first solo single, In the Air Tonight.
Tellingly, though, fiction has failed to interrogate this kind of existential threat, presumably because a resolutely machine intelligence lacks dramatic potential.
Among them was "Policeman and Racecar" (1916), shown here, in which the artist plays around with framing and scale to create a dramatic image of man and machine.
The difference that an SSD makes – especially to your startup time, if you have to boot your machine often – is dramatic.
