Sentence examples for dramatic principle from inspiring English sources

It's also fair to say that his play has a slow-burning tension based on the old dramatic principle of waiting.

The flu has also given the series several opportunities to put the dramatic principle of Chekhov's gun to good use.

From this period comes an observation of Chekhov's that has become known as "Chekhov's gun", a dramatic principle that requires that every element in a narrative be necessary and irreplaceable, and that everything else be removed.

Dramatic principles of unity are widely violated.

Mr. Gillett applied the same dramatic principles to his own performance.

Glass shows, throughout the book, his awareness of the dramatic principles that separate Shakespeare from, say, Brecht — and it's never a secret how the composer's own tastes are ordered.

But it's also important to say that the central dramatic principles of his work have remained static, and that many of his movies revolve around insanely paranoid scenarios, contrived to bring Mr. Eastwood up against a procession of louts, bureaucratic prisses and outright psychopaths whose very existence seem to challenge his potency.

All in all, it's a downward spiral that, for whatever reason, appears to lead activists toward increasingly desperate and dramatic displays of principle in the vain hope that the mere drama of a principle publicly performed over and over will of its own inertia lead to change.

At least one group has demonstrated this principle in dramatic fashion, also using fonts.

The most dramatic instance of this principle is provided by conditioned food aversions.

It was a first principle of dramatic writing, said Zeami, to base a play on a well-known incident in which the central character was familiar to the audience.