Sentence examples for dramatic performance in from inspiring English sources

(For more about Shakespeare and dramatic performance in his day, see Sidebar: Shakespeare on Theatre).

Many jurors listened with mouths open, concentrating intently on Ms. Thurman's testimony, as if they were watching a dramatic performance in a hushed theater.

Several New York businesses were honored when the awards were announced in July, including Mr. Rattray, who won the Hammie award, for "best overly dramatic performance in a local commercial".

The idea of returning was fixed in his mind, a gesture like leading the Israeli Philharmonic before an all-Arab audience in Nazareth, or the dramatic performance in Sarajevo's burned library.

After turning in a fine dramatic performance in Inherit the Wind (1960), Kelly directed Gigot (1962), a heart-tugging story filmed in Paris and starring Jackie Gleason as a deaf man who takes a waif under his wing.

What she has discovered in more recent years is a new fearlessness when it comes to singing for a job, as well as an appreciation for what happens to a dramatic performance in a long stage run: "You're like a Clydesdale by the end -- stronger and stronger".

(Boorstin wrote that "more and more news events become dramatic performances in which 'men in the news' simply act out more or less well their prepared script").

Hanks earned further Oscar nominations for outstanding dramatic performances in Saving Private Ryan (1998), which was directed by Steven Spielberg, and Cast Away (2000).

Shakespeare's two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, can be dated with certainty to the years when the plague stopped dramatic performances in London, in 1592 93 and 1593 94, respectively, just before their publication.

Benchmarks: Understands the emotional and social impact of dramatic performances in one's own life, in the community, and in other cultures; Knows ways in which theatre reflects a culture; Knows how culture affects the content and production values of dramatic performances Language Arts Standard 1- Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process.

Benchmarks: Understands the emotional and social impact of dramatic performances in one's own life, in the community, and in other cultures; Knows ways in which theater reflects a culture; Knows how culture affects the content and production values of dramatic performances Language Arts Standard 1- Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process.