Sentence examples for dramatic occasion from inspiring English sources

There was an inevitability thereafter about where this dramatic occasion would veer.

I've realized at 8 P.M. that my guests would not be eating before midnight, and, on one particularly dramatic occasion, a chicken left my apartment via the window.

The former vary from a collection of set speeches to informal conversation pieces set among members of Plutarch's family circle; the date and dramatic occasion are rarely indicated.

But Lauren Flanigan, the New York City Opera soprano, demonstrated more than enough nerve and charisma at Joe's Pub on Monday evening to make the transition a dramatic occasion.

Come the late fall, he should make a big vision speech at some dramatic occasion like Saddam's funeral, or Bin Laden's, or a Middle East breakthrough, or some love fest with Blair and Chirac and Schröder and the new Iraqi leader.

The dramatic occasion of Plato's dialogue, Parmenides, is a fictionalized visit to Athens by the eminent Parmenides and his younger associate, Zeno, to attend the festival of the Great Panathenaea.

If to "aestheticize" is to glide across brutality and cruelty, treat them merely as dramatic occasions for the artist rather than structures of power to be described and dismantled - much hangs on that word "merely".

Like his counterpart Pat Lynch, the boisterous head of the largest NYPD union, Seabrook has capitalized on dramatic occasions of inmate violence to declare that DOC commissioner Ponte must be removed while also demanding a better contract for his members.

But on occasion dramatic moments list (or are skewed) under the sheer weight of historical detail.

"There was little of dramatic interest in the occasion".

Any match that promises dramatic football is an occasion for us, and no match is of less interest just because "our" team isn't playing.