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Definitions in simple English

drama Noun

— A drama is a serious story for TV, stage, radio, etc. The courtroom drama stars Melissa Gilbert as a young lawyer. — Drama is the art of theatre and the study of that art. Canadians watch PBS for the best in British TV, both drama and comedy. — Drama is excitement, and exciting events, both good and bad. Americans gathered around televisions to watch the drama unfolding on Capitol Hill.

drama

— noun (= play) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway — noun an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional — noun the literary genre of works intended for the theater — noun the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

Synonyms drama synonyms

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drama English » English

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Topics drama topics

What do people use drama to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity

Drama

What words refer to a type of drama?

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Examples drama examples

How do I use drama in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Which movie genre do you prefer? Comedy or drama?

Bob is in the drama club.

Peggy did not go to see the drama, and neither did I.

How does this drama end?

All the characters in this drama are fictitious.

I watched an American drama.

I'm studying the American drama.

He majored in drama at college.

She played an important part in the drama.

Tom joined his school's drama club.

I hate drama.

Tom majored in drama.

Who is the author of this drama?

Napoleon's life was a great drama.

I went to the theater to see a modern drama.

If it goes well, I'll put you forward for a drama serial.

This autumn I am, unusually, watching many drama series.

Comedy is much closer to real life than drama.

I don't like drama.

Movie subtitles

And the occasional procedural drama like Bones.

And I'm Playing A Part In This Drama.

But Seriously, I Am Tired Of The Drama.

So Much Drama.

The curtain had fallen on the Polish drama: a tragedy with no relief in sight.

They're packed with drama with twisted hopes and crooked dreams.

I must say it's very disappointing not to be a leading character in some supernatural drama, after all!

Now the drama's complete.

What has his drama to do with your marriage?

My poor Marcus. This is drama for the ages.

Thid little ditty had everything- drama, tragedy. love and poetry.

We got a drama lecture.

I'm sick of these artificial barriers between the musical and the drama.

Drama desk?

Harrigan and Claude Rains had recently appeared in the well-received Theatre Guild production on Broadway of the Irish drama, The Moon in the Yellow River.

Come on, it's not such a drama.

You were stupid to give up drama school.

To think, after the drama school exam we swore to live together on love alone.

So, it's on the southern coast the drama is to be played.

This is a serious play, a realistic drama.

They're packed with drama. with twisted hopes and crooked dreams.

All of this drama has been staged by Her Majesty who wants to have a new lecteur, and she knew which one precisely.

One must assassinate quickly, and out in the open. One must assassinate quickly and then be swallowed by the crowd, otherwise the drama fails.

However, during her senior year at Radcliffe, Lloyd Richards lectured on the drama.

It's tragedy, sir, drama.

This is drama for the ages.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present a serious social drama proving that vice is always punished.

The play that follows is neither comedy nor drama.

So was this drama all Nishimura's doing?

Tell me Mr. Ward, how does it feel to hold the center of the stage in this eternal drama of life and death.

I've written a play, myself. Or rather a drama.

I don't have good looks, of course. I never went to drama school.

It's my pet drama.

Drama with a capital P.

I need a summer, a whole season, to consider such a great piece, a great drama.

No, one can't be bothered to keep on playing grand drama every night.

It's circus, it's drama, it's opera. It's farce, operetta, revue. All in one show!

And the artists perform not only their acts, but they're also the characters in a drama!

News and current affairs

The next few weeks will provide plenty of political drama.

This is a good story, full of human drama and power politics.

The drama of the ongoing eurozone crisis has focused attention on Europe, but how the austerity-growth debate plays out there is more broadly relevant, including for the United States.

Like good theater, terrorism always acts out some moral drama, and to strike terror in the public mind, terrorists must act in public, without guilt or remorse.

Compare this situation to the drama 60 years ago.

The drama in Europe is far from over.

We remember having seen the left govern without drama.

BUDAPEST - As far as Germany is concerned, the drama of the euro crisis is over.

This is the moment for conclusions and perspective, the always-fascinating moment when the actors in the drama, who have sometimes operated in secret, turn up their last cards.

How will the ensuing drama unfold?

No drama, no long goodbyes, just.nothing.

During the round-the-clock coverage of the nuclear drama, the specter of Chernobyl has been raised repeatedly.

The ongoing drama of mass demonstrations, violence, torture and repression that followed June's fraudulent election has exposed a fundamental conflict within the Iranian power elite about the basic course of the Islamic Republic.

The Qattan Center for the Child is a privately funded library - and drama, computer, and youth center - that would grace any British community.

This unnoticed drama is emblematic of the under-reported Colombian conflict.

The Greek experience - so far, at least - looks like a replay of the Argentine drama.

BRUSSELS - The first act of the eurozone debt drama was about whether any European Union member country could ever become insolvent.

But that acknowledgement of reality does not end the drama.

The outcome of Sunday's election will determine which way Greece goes - and, also, of course, how the unfolding Greek drama affects the eurozone's future.

In the blood and drama of the events, however, we might miss a significant element of the story.

As the world reacts to China's crackdown in Tibet, one country is conspicuous by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence over it.

Indeed, parallel to the Syrian drama, the rhetoric in the confrontation between Israel and Iran over the program has become dramatically harsher.

Russian leaders (as do ordinary Russians) like drama; they lack patience.

Egypt's unfolding drama will be framed by the triangle of contradictions and demands among these three groups.

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