Sentence examples for robust drama from inspiring English sources

Brooklyn is a robust drama with big flavours, forthright supporting turns from Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters and a teaspoonful of syrup, a tiny weakness for sentimental period-nostalgia.

My periodic trips to London are exercises in aesthetic masochism, chances to envy the robust political dramas, sensitively revived classics, daring directors and no less intrepid audiences.

After making several robust realist dramas about the challenges of everyday life in his country – among them The Circle, Crimson Gold and the exuberantly angry football movie Offside – Panahi fell foul of the Iranian government, which threatened him with imprisonment, prevented him from travelling and banned him from making films for 20 years.

Choruses are spectacular, the drama robust even in this over-egged staging.

His treatment of the Prelude, with its ethereal, shimmering strings, captures the music's dreaminess yet has a rhythmic vitality that forecasts the robust, surely paced, drama-oriented performance that followed.

My aunt was born 3 years later, healthy, robust and without any drama.

But the tally jumps to a 2.5 rating (about 3.3 million viewers) by the time a week's worth of recorded playback is included, a number that qualifies as satisfactory for most current television dramas — and robust for any show on a Friday.

There's equivalent formal focus in All Is Lost (Universal, 12), JC Chandor's expert but aloofly self-elevating man-at-sea drama with a robust Robert Redford, and considerably less in James Franco's impenetrably umber-hued stab at Cormac McCarthy's Child of God (Signature, 18).

But nearly 100 of the Met's robust choristers portray witnesses to the drama.

Susan Sarandon also features, with her widow drama The Meddler doing robust business, putting the film in ninth place on the list.

Many observers are likening Nolan's latest film to Alfonso Cuarón's 3-D space drama "Gravity," which opened with a robust $55.6 million in October 2013 — the biggest October debut to date.