Sentence examples for echoing dialogue from inspiring English sources

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I had excellent teachers, who called me out on bad habits that had developed unchecked for years ("No echoing dialogue". "No echoing dialogue?" "No, no echoing dialogue").

I reread his echoing dialogue – with characters who never seem to hear each other – and his jokes that don't sound like jokes.

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Working out her themes, Holofcener, now fifty, avoids the ironclad "arc" of Hollywood drama, yet she structures the movie rigorously, relying on such formal devices as matched pairs of characters and bits of echoed dialogue.

Still, the heyday of Mad's takeoffs coincided with what is now known as the "Mad Men" era, and an article like "The Mad Madison Avenue Primer," which spoofs agency life in 1960, includes jokes about "bourbon for breakfast" that echo dialogue from "Mad Men".

The dialogue echoing out of the TV sounds more relaxed than what is being said by the characters.

Man laughs, says Trissino (echoing Plato's dialogue Philebus), because he is envious and malicious and never delights in the good of others except when he hopes for some good from it for himself.

Best known as a playwright, Mr. Mamet brings a businesslike terseness -- and pointed, reiterative superstructure -- to his dialogue, echoing the no-nonsense machismo of Mr. Friedkin and Mr. Mann; it's as if, for these men, verbiage is packed with lead weight, so that meanings don't escape the earth's gravitational pull.

Mr. Cox aspires to more than echoing each film's dialogue coach.

Max Roberts's production exactly echoes Hall's dialogue: it's direct and intense but light on its feet.

In e-mail messages to a journalism professor that investigators believe were written by Mr. Karr, statements about children seemed to echo the online dialogue among pedophiles.

The dialogue echoes the conversation 20 years ago when another incumbent president fighting for his job was reluctant to involve American forces in a far-off killing field while his opponent criticized his lack of leadership.

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