Add in a substantial amount of plain, expositional dialogue, and cinematography which (no doubt for reasons of verisimilitude) is dull and dreary on the eye and Rosewater begins to creak at the edges.
Despite the script's bluntly stacked deck and plain-spoken dialogue (Momoa wrote with Mollohan and Jonathan Hirschbein), there are unexpected notes of power and grace throughout.
We'd both winced at Harper Lee's honest, plain-spoken dialogue in the beginning, the hateful words dribbling in apologetic trails from my mouth, but at some point, I'd stopped offering long-winded, explanatory asides and begun to let the characters speak for themselves.
Here Ms. Wallace abandons the plain and forthright dialogue that has worked effectively throughout and reaches (I assume into the novel) for poetic grandeur that comes across as overwrought.
The narrative was too straightforward, the dialogue too plain to believe that those portentous moments could allude to hidden depths.
Goren meets the dubious testimony of suspects with exaggerated interest, or double takes that ricochet off pauses in the dialogue, or plain grinning astonishment.
Its plain style, mother-child dialogues, and conversational tone inspired a generation of authors, such as Sarah Trimmer.
Under the supervision of the executive producers Christopher Chulack and John Wells (who worked together on another show cops profess to like, "Third Watch"), the dialogue is mostly plain-spoken, and the story lines, which give the patrol officers equal time with the detectives, have a carefully constructed appearance of everyday randomness.
The dialogue is written in plain HTML above the character's "talk bubble" instead of incorporated into the images; this allows for alternate browsing such as cell phones and RSS syndication.
Although his mature work has nothing like the symbolic density of his first book, The North Ship (1945), it nevertheless contains a significant level of romance, usually as one part of a dialogue with a much plainer kind of discourse.
