The characters are brilliantly drawn, the dialogue true, witty and sharp, the plot constantly surprising.
The characters are superbly well drawn, the dialogue is spot-on, the storytelling a joy.
Part of the reason the modernizers like Kang Youwei were drawn into dialogue with Westerners like Timothy Richard was precisely their sense that their society was failing to meet the challenges from abroad.
Swindle feels drawn to dialogue.
I'm a firm believer in the power of personal contact to bridge differences, so I've long been drawn to dialogues with people of other religious outlooks.
The model is given in terms of ABA-specific utterances, debate trees and forests implicitly built during and drawn from dialogues, legal-move functions (amounting to protocols) and outcome functions.
Using cutouts from 19th-century illustrated books and periodicals, as well as line drawings and hand-drawn dialogue balloons, he concocted a style in which the surrealism of J. J. Grandville and Max Ernst was inflected with a tough Queens accent.
His goal, he added, was to write dialogue drawn almost entirely from actual statements by the composers and other historical figures.
Bartenders and cocktail geeks, more so than adherents of any other epicurean discipline, seem drawn to a dialogue with the past.
He pores over the evidence, such as it is — "dark surmises, grave suspicions, ambiguous phrases, obscure scraps of dialogue drawn from half-remembered phone conversations" — and he also gives vent to his own imaginings.
Unfortunately the striking individuality of Mr. Doctorow's characters tends to become smudged onstage, primarily because the text blurs together dialogue drawn from the book with passages in which the omniscient narrator shares with us their inner thoughts.
