dramatic

In a sentence

Six example sentences with dramatic, each labelled with its topic.

• Shakespeare's late plays test how much dramatic weight a single recognition scene can carry before the audience stops believing.

  Literature

• The composer wrote dramatic recitative for the trial scene, letting the orchestra fall silent whenever the accused spoke.

  Music

• Therapists sometimes use dramatic exercises, asking a client to play a parent aloud so buried arguments finally surface.

  Psychology

• The actor's dramatic training showed in every scene, since he could hold a pause longer than the camera expected.

  Movies

• Caravaggio's dramatic lighting throws a single beam across the figures, as though they stood on a darkened stage.

  Art

• Aristotle's Poetics treats the dramatic arts as imitation, asking why an audience enjoys watching on stage what it would flee in life.

  Philosophy

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