Sentence examples for dramatic memoir from inspiring English sources

Two different actors, each complete with specs, floppy hair and mournful Yorkshire accent, perform the playwright himself in "The Lady in the Van," the dramatic memoir he recently opened at the Queen's.

He allows that the film can be read as a dramatic memoir, a sequel-of-sorts to the Blitz-era Hope and Glory in that it nudges the action forward to 1952 when Boorman surrogate Bill Callum Turnerr) is 19 years old and completing his national service.

Revisionists claim that this testimony, including the dramatic memoirs of Rudolf Hess, is often biased or distorted or has been elicited under duress.

In 2012, Random House will release Kathi's dramatic investigative field memoir, which focuses in part on her 15-year odyssey tracking Viktor Bout.

Marketing would want something more dramatic for a war memoir -- but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

"The Waverly Gallery" isn't so much a proper play as an essayistic memoir given dramatic form.

"Roiphe gives her memoir the dramatic vividness of a novel," Karen Lehrman wrote in these pages in 1999.

It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license…The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism".

It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity.

In yesterday's entry on his New Yorker blog, Letter from China, Evan Osnos links to Cindy M. Carter's roundup of notable recent independent Chinese documentaries (including the extraordinary "Fengming: A Chinese Memoir") and dramatic features.

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