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Example sentences for "dramatically"

Lexicographically close words:
dram; drama; dramas; dramatic; dramatical; dramatick; dramatics; dramatis; dramatisation; dramatise
  1. Certainly the librettists of Gounod's opera have shown but scant regard for Goethe's intentions, but they have at any rate concocted a story with a well-regulated and dramatically logical plot.

  2. Every phrase is insincere, not because Wagner wished to be insincere, but because he tried to express dramatically a state of mind which is essentially undramatic.

  3. This deterministic role of the war machine has never been more dramatically in the foreground than during the crucial years from 1910 to the present day, when war apparatus costs have topped the list of government expenditures.

  4. After 1870 the pattern was dramatically altered as British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian forces moved inland, staking out their claims.

  5. It is the blindness always of the fanatical pacifist who would sacrifice nothing for peace, and of the non-resistant doctrine that right and moral law have no need for material might in a material world.

  6. Not merely as a tale dramatically told are we to consider the poem; but--as might be expected--we must look upon it as a problem in mental pathology.

  7. He protests, too, that when he utters opinions and expresses ideas dramatically they are not to be snatched at by leaders of sects and parties, and bottled as specimens for their museums, or used to give authority to their own pet principles.

  8. Financial incentives were not needed to encourage the creation of the work, but the cost of distribution dramatically limited its dissemination.

  9. The actions of strangers dramatically increase or decrease the usefulness of your good.

  10. He understood that it might be called dramatically great.

  11. It rang so dramatically in the silence that a sudden new panic seized them as if the suspected presence in the kitchen had cried out to them.

  12. There was a moment of suspense, and all eyes were fixed upon the parents so dramatically apprised of their son's marriage.

  13. He recognises, indeed, that Shakespeare has taken no small pains to make this fable dramatically acceptable.

  14. This is the dramatically impossible canvas which Shakespeare undertook to retouch and finish.

  15. A profound theme may be discussed dramatically as well, and at times much better than in an essay or a speech.

  16. Even "Little Boy Blue," a decided lyric, has a definite speaker, and the objects described and the events indicated are intensely as well as dramatically realized.

  17. The reader who dramatically or truly interprets the poem, feeling this, will show a change in feeling and movement, and give tender coloring to the closing words.

  18. Each character is made to speak dramatically or in his own peculiar way.

  19. He can so identify himself with the character as to give genial and hearty laughter, and thus indicate dramatically the sudden arrival of ideas.

  20. In a few lines, as dramatically suggestive as any in literature, his character and motives are all revealed, as he intimates to his hearer what is expected from him.

  21. So far, all has been in the present tense, dramatically discovered and represented as a living, passing scene; but here there is a relapse into mere narration, and the speaker appears to be telling the story long afterwards.

  22. Once I saw such another case dramatically carried through to its natural crisis in the Liverpool Mail.

  23. This attack succeeded partially; but it was attempted at a moment dramatically critical, and with an effect ruinous to the whole campaign, as well as that particular attack.

  24. And the points which he can only dramatically suggest, Plato expounds directly in his own person.

  25. But some of them are so extreme that they may be adduced as a further indication of a point of view whose prevalence alone could render them even dramatically plausible.

  26. Probably Browning placed it in the mouth of Pauline from his rooted determination to speak dramatically and impersonally: and in French, so as to heighten the effect of verisimilitude.

  27. In the circumstances it is an extremely tractable organ, at least always capable of doing his bidding, dramatically speaking.

  28. She it was who, materially assisted by Miss Garden herself, arranged the dance, dramatically significant in gesture and step, which the singer performed at the climax of Richard Strauss's music drama.

  29. I have never cared very much for her singing of the mirror air, although she is dramatically admirable at this point; on the other hand, I have found her rendering of the farewell to Eros most pathetic in its tenderness.

  30. The nun Hroswitha first treated it dramatically in the latter half of the tenth century.

  31. He pointed dramatically to the offending article; one of the Byronic affairs, to which the old south clings affectionately, and which as affectionately clings to the garment it is supposed to adorn, since it is a part of it.

  32. In this story the writer displayed considerable literary ability, and the situations were dramatically set forth.

  33. Napoleon, knowing this would be premature, dramatically conceived the idea of crippling England by threatening her Asiatic possessions, and led an army into Egypt (1798).

  34. All her sorrow comes from your dramatically honourable promise.

  35. It is recorded of him that once when a certain young and energetic Village editor had been holding forth uninterruptedly and dramatically for an hour on the rights of the working-man, etc.

  36. Thus it may be that the Zeus whose marriage was dramatically represented at the Mysteries was not the sky-god Zeus, but his brother Zeus of the Underworld, and that the writers who refer to the ceremony have confused the two brothers.


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