This splendid instinct for dialogue led Duras to produce the original screenplay for Alain Resnais's critically acclaimed film Hiroshima mon amour, about a brief love affair in postwar Hiroshima between a Japanese businessman and a French actress.
McGowan's splendid if occasional dialogues (between Catrine and her father, Catrine and Gilbert, Gilbert and Betts) suggest the natural talent of a playwright, but in any of the literary arts a talent for exchanges, or images, is not enough; without a deliberate, personal design -- which must be timely, not a convenient throwback -- it is an excuse for a writer not to be careful.
As we ponder all this, we get cameo pleasures: a splendid couple of pages of dialogue about somebody having sex with a sheepdog ("Was it a female dog?" "Of course it fucking was!
Though still hewing to drama school rules – small cast, single set, neat inciting incident – it has a mature, post-grad voice, sensitive and humane and jammed full of totally splendid crackerjack-with-a-toy-surprise dialogue.
Akhtar has a splendid command of structure, a fine ear for dialogue, and some personal experience with provocative novels ("American Dervish").
TMNT has a 34% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 115 reviews with an average rating of 5/10, and the consensus being "TMNT's art direction is splendid, but the plot is non-existent and the dialogue lacks the irony and goofy wit of the earlier TMNT movies".
Mr. Linklater, whose stage appearances in New York include a splendid starring role in "The School for Lies" at the Classic Stage Company, writes tart, often friskily funny dialogue.
Two women of splendid eccentricity traverse the world in pursuit of independence, their adventures recounted to us in singular and hilarious dialogue, behind them winking the unnerving and paradoxical eye of Jane Bowles.
A character in Plutarch's Erotikos (Dialogue on Love) argues that "the noble lover of beauty engages in love wherever he sees excellence and splendid natural endowment without regard for any difference in physiological detail".
