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dramatic Adjective 1. of or relating to drama 2. like a drama in suddenness or effectiveness: the government's plan has had a dramatic effect on employment in television 3. acting or performed in a flamboyant way: he spread his hands in a dramatic gesture of helplessness dramatically adv
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dramatic adjective 1. exciting, emotional, thrilling, tense, startling, sensational, breathtaking, electrifying, melodramatic, climactic, high-octane (informal) shock-horror (facetious) suspenseful adjective 3. expressive, Translations (theatrical) → theatralisch |
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VANSTONE'S inquiries into the proposed theatrical entertainment at Evergreen Lodge were answered by a narrative of dramatic disasters; of which Miss Marrable impersonated the innocent cause, and in which her father and mother played the parts of chief victims. But in spite of the dramatic rudeness which is sometimes of the idiosyncrasy, the true and native colour of his multitudinous dramatis personae, or monologists, Mr. Largely a matter of Emotion is the Personal Sympathy of the author for his characters, while Intellect has a large share in Dramatic Sympathy, whereby the author enters truly into the situations and feelings of any character, whether he personally likes him or not. |
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