Sentence examples for dramatic modes from inspiring English sources

Renunciation, along with such reverberant partners as epiphany, retraction, and reaffirmation, was one of her familiar dramatic modes.

Moreover, it's precisely because of opera's incredible form that I can relax into its irrealism – whereas other dramatic modes trouble me with their malformed naturalism.

Yet despite such recent flops as James L. Brooks's semi-satirical misfire "Spanglish" and Todd Solondz's inept "Palindromes," this most difficult of dramatic modes seems to be gaining ground — in independent Hollywood, at any rate.

All of Lisa Kron's earnest attempts to play out before us in traditional dramatic modes the complicated truth of her experience cannot come close to embodying truth as the presence of her "mother," sniffling and wincing in her chair in the sloppy housedress, matter-of-factly does.

Hysteria is not a very productive dramatic mode.

Yet the right dramatic mode for that kind of whirligig activity is farce.

'I AM Sean Pennn Penn in intense dramatic mode as a mentally retarded man trying to win custody of his daughter.

These small-scale, intelligent movies can fall into a trap: it's hard to achieve a satisfactory dramatic climax when observation is your principal dramatic mode.

The contemporary playwright can adopt any dramatic mode, mixing effects to shock the spectator into an awareness of self, beliefs, and environment.

"Borg vs. McEnroe" has the virtue of laying its filmmakers' point of view on the line, finding a dramatic mode for an essentially essayistic intervention on their movie's main ideas.

SNOWSTORMS and the longest cold snap since 1981; an unforeseen political attack on the prime minister's leadership; a bad-tempered start to the general-election campaign: Britain began the new year in unexpectedly dramatic mode.