Sentence examples for straight dialogue from inspiring English sources
The usual play is a straight dialogue drama, making it perhaps the oldest developed form of nonmusical play in East Asia.
It begins slowly, with the bigger instruments held in reserve and long stretches of the play delivered as straight dialogue — in ersatz Yeats, because the poet's estate stupidly withheld permission for Partch to use the original.
Garner's seemingly effortless flair for delivering humorous dialogue — and delivering straight dialogue humorously — made him one of television's biggest stars.
We were more interested in an unfettered straight dialogue with us about the issues that matter to us".
As for the pontiff, though his two pennies' worth can doubtless either hurt or harm any straight-talking dialogue between Muslims and Christians, one thing is sure: no longer reducible to a solely Western idiom, our Great Conversation should ring manifestly more sonorous after the added melody of so many rich Islamic traditions.
SB: I auditioned for Miller's Crossing, read the pages for this character, which was five pages of dialogue straight.
From the top: a tsunami of long blond hair, Jackie O. shades, pale-pink lipstick and tangerine nails, dialogue straight from the sewer, and a sideline in narcotics.
It is full of improbably colorful characters and hard-to-swallow dialogue straight out of a black-and-white 1960s TV show.
And he has appropriated much of the visuals and dialogue straight from the comics, down to Rorschach's mumbled catchphrase, "hurm".
In general the cast plays the earnest Victorian-style dialogue straight ("A thousand pardons for my untimely demand"; "The man I love will soon wed another"), and before the audience knows it, these characters' fates have begun to matter.
Let's assume he repeats those accusations in the pulpit -- and for this scene I'm going to lift all his dialogue straight from his statements in the legal papers: ARCHBISHOP -- In the name of the Father, of the Son BYRNE -- No one can prove that Jesus existed.
