Sentence examples for dramatic question from inspiring English sources

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"dramatic question" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to ask a rhetorical question with an element of drama and emotion. For example: "Is there nothing we can do to save him?".

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That might seem a dramatic question to ask, but that is why we need to ask it.

Week 12: Exposition and Backstory - Wednesday 9 December Managing the set-up of a story and ensuring there is a strong hook and opening dramatic question.

The dramatic question the play poses — can a man of such advanced years reasonably and respectably hope to find love with a woman half his age?

This epilogue raises the dramatic question of whether the goal of minimizing the misuse of force by police officers is also amenable to the measurement techniques successfully employed to the activity of criminals.

The epilogue raises the dramatic question of whether the goal of minimizing the misuse of force by police officers is also amenable to the measurement techniques successfully employed to the activity of criminals.

As typing increasingly eclipses handwriting, a British critic and novelist asks a dramatic question: "Will some part of our humanity... disappear as well?" In pithy chapters, he offers a response that is part autobiography, part journalism, and part history lesson.

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That's because, by way of hyperbolic drama, he's looking at matters of gender and, for that matter, of surgical transformation, with a sincere seriousness and a large dramatic question-mark of soulful mystery.

Richard Brody wrote that, in this film, Almodóvar "seems both to be stretching his talent into new realms and to be delighting in the paradoxes of sober and sophisticated scientific study converging to a stepwise madness" and added that he approaches his subject "with a sincere seriousness and a large dramatic question-mark of soulful mystery".

I hadn't weaved in answers to the dramatic questions the playwright David Mamet insists must permeate every page: Who wants what from whom?

Critically, the question of whether Nellie will want to keep the baby for herself never comes up, allowing space for more nuanced, if less dramatic, questions to be raised.

The dramatic questions here are whether Rory's violent plans will be deterred by his filial fondness for Tom, and whether Tom will figure out what Rory has hidden under the basement floor.

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