Initial bulletins, echoed from station to station and magnified with dramatic graphics, stirring music and flashing icons, inflate each incident into a scary "end of the world" television moment.
On a drizzly day, we lingered over novels at the Black Horse, a student coffee shop with good lattes and a patio, sat out a storm in Mo's Smokehouse BBQ, poked through vintage clothes at Decades, dug through the huge used-book store Phoenix, and enjoyed the pinots and Rhone-style wines at Tolosa Winery south of the city, dramatic and stirring under the day's clearing clouds.
"Charlotte Gray" has many potentially stirring dramatic scenes, including the blowing up of a train, a chase sequence in which Charlotte faces down a gunman and a desperate deportation scene at a train station.
Verdi was no stranger to forbidden love and he captured all its passion and anguish in Un Ballo in Maschera, which the Metropolitan Opera returned to the stage last night with a top-flight cast led by Piotr Beczala and Sondra Radvanovsky and with James Levine in the pit for a thrilling performance of one of opera's most dramatic and stirring scores.
ELECTION campaigns are fine pieces of political theatre, with stirring lines, dramatic entrances and exits, and plenty of well-choreographed sword-play.
The dramatic ninth inning, which featured two stirring comebacks, sent flag-waving, cheer-stick-banging fans at the Wukesong Baseball Field into a tizzy.
It is not the first time senior Tories have publicly criticised the culture of benefits, and the party has been accused of stirring public distrust by making dramatic claims about rich lifestyles and fraud.
In the second he speaks off the cuff, often using humour, always stirring the passion of his supporters with dramatic rhetoric and images.
The second took a bit longer, but Beckham delivered in dramatic fashion Sunday night, leading the Galaxy past the Houston Dynamo, 1-0, in a stirring M.L.S. Cup final.
For all its dramatic failings, "I Dreamed of Africa" is still gorgeous to look at and occasionally even stirring.
