Despite bipartisan support and a dramatic sit-in from Democratic lawmakers Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has so far resisted calls to allow a vote on gun regulation bills.
In the evening, most diners choose the excellent four-course meal, wine included, at €31. +33 4 95 20 02 75 La Ferme de Campo di Monte, Murato This dramatic farmhouse sits on a high plateau with views over Corsica's northern mountains to the sea.
He might have been a dramatic critic, condemned to sit through plays like this".
The rooms look out on to dramatic rocky beaches that sit gapingly empty apart from fishermen and the occasional boat heading out to look for dolphins.
Whereas The Office shocked with its characters (David Brent's delusional lack of self-awareness), and The Royle Family subverted with a format that even Samuel Beckett might have rejected as lacking dramatic potential (a family sit in a room watching telly), this is more of a throwback to the traditional sitcoms of the 70s.
Simple chorale settings were offset by richly contrapuntal ones, and compelling dramatic solo recitatives sat beside arias shaped with an irresistibly flowing lyricism.
Nearly a year later, Mr. Witherspoon's life has taken a dramatic turn: He sat last week inside the Manhattan Detention Complex, not as a guard but as a prisoner, about six blocks from where he took the exam, as his family tried to raise his $25,000 bail.
Instead, he set the wordy text to a lyrically enhanced dramatic recitative, which sits -- sometimes uneasily -- atop his teeming orchestral music: a pulsating and relentless succession of compact thematic episodes, sudden outbursts, buzzing rhythmic figurations, aborted melodic flights, and occasionally a reflective passage that cuts off just when you are settling into it.
A dramatic 1936 "sit-down" strike against the General Motors Corporation convinced many unskilled workers that the motto "one shop, one union" could work and prompted other successful sit-down strikes to follow.
You wouldn't want to let a setting like that sit there unspoiled and dramatic.
But Owen wants to sit in, march, do something dramatic, not take a class on how to register to vote.
