But so far the series lacks the squirmy vigor of "Studio 60," particularly since Sorkin saps the drama with an odd structural choice.
Thankfully, Alex Ferguson's curtain call hasn't sapped any drama from the top of the Premier League, merely set the scene for a desperate power struggle.
Everyone else felt as if they'd been doused with sticky stuff much earlier, when Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was knocked from the game in the first quarter, sapping all the drama from the game quickly, wrote Kevin Sherrington of The Dallas Morning News.
And it saps all the good drama from the initial death scene.
Unfortunately, people don't have much choice in matters of parents or death, which tends to sap some of the drama from such scenarios.
For Sevilla, Jesús Navas was technically gifted careening up the right flank, but striker Alvaro Negredo's absence for most of the match sapped some of the drama from the encounter.
Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com believes the N.F.L. is trying to fix something that is not broken and Clark Judge of CBSSports.com points out that it could sap a lot of drama when games end on something like a fumble instead of a score.
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, its joint chairmen, are being asked, in effect, to trim about $180 billion a year from the federal budget five years down the road.In this section The mid-terms loom A Washington two-step Looking for waste Horror from the deep Taking the long view A bit of a pinch The budget-slasher ReprintsThe task has been sapped of some of its drama by recent budget revelations.
To recreate the drama that is the sap of successful oratory requires theatrical talent, not the kind of thing that comes along in mundane political exercises.
Just a very strange scene that, for me at least, really sapped the moment of its potential drama and tragedy.
