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dramatic English

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dramatic

If something is dramatic, it is large and sudden. The increase in foreign students has meant a dramatic change in the number of schools. After the new teacher came, there was a dramatic increase in the test results. If something is dramatic, it is connected with acting and theatre. In a highly dramatic speech, he brough everyone to his side. He studied dramatic arts in university.

dramatic

suitable to or characteristic of drama a dramatic entrance in a swirling cape a dramatic rescue at sea (= spectacular, striking) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect a dramatic sunset a dramatic pause a spectacular display of northern lights it was a spectacular play his striking good looks always created a sensation pertaining to or characteristic of drama dramatic arts used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style a dramatic tenor a dramatic soprano

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Simple sentences

Don't try to make dramatic changes to your diet all at once.
Medical science has made a dramatic advance.
We are in a phase of dramatic change.
Why do you have to be so dramatic?
She was suspicious of Anne's big words and dramatic gestures and imagined that the child was making fun of her.
Don't be so dramatic, Tom!
In music or speaking, a pause is frequently used for dramatic effect.
The story of Tom and Mary's relationships is full of dramatic events.
Nothing dramatic will happen.

Movie subtitles

The death of Yongle had an immediate and dramatic impact.
This dramatic transition from Confucian equipoise to anarchy had taken little more than a decade.
The lessons we're learning at the bottom of our oceans and in Yellowstone's acid pits are giving us dramatic insight into how life came to be on our planet.
Don't be dramatic.
I'm not being dramatic.
Just a minute-- jim: You remember my dramatic sketch, Mr. Smith?
Wouldn't it be dramatic?
How beautifully dramatic.
Free speech in its most dramatic form.
Something more dramatic. When can we be ready to invade Osterlich?
Our new dramatic critic.
It is dramatic critic, right?
You're the dramatic critic, Leland.
BERNSTEIN: Mr. Leland is writing it from the dramatic angle?
This exposition of character relationships is expanded by the introduction of Dr Kemp, played by William Harrigan, a character in the novel whose role is greatly enlarged for dramatic purposes in the film.
He also became an acting teacher at the famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he worked with such students and later luminaries as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
But based on items in the files of the British Film Institute Rains was eighth billed and played a drunken loafer who, while applying for a job, gives some revealing and dramatic information about the leading character.
What do you think? Dramatic licence?
We can go to the Old Bailey together. No thanks, aunt Agatha. Why it's much more dramatic than any play.
More dramatic.
Isn't it natural for an actor to want to be dramatic?
We have muffed the most dramatic advertising moment in commerce, and you've made a fathead out of me.
Bildocker has a great sense of the dramatic.
Something more dramatic.
This is Mr. Leland-- - How do you do, Mr. Leland? Our new dramatic critic.
It is dramatic critic, right? - That's right.
Concerning him, I have a dramatic story. in which I was involved.
This is kind of dramatic.
Mr. Leland is writing it from the dramatic angle? We've covered it from the news end.
The dramatic.
The dramatic notice.
You have come at a very dramatic time in my life.
The woman's got dramatic talent too.
Don't be dramatic, dear.
Oh, don't be dramatic, darling.
You sound very dramatic.

News and current affairs

In my view, the most powerful argument to justify today's high price of gold is the dramatic emergence of Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East into the global economy.
But then technology, demographics, and globalization brought dramatic new challenges that the neoclassical approach could not foresee.
Neighbors that used to be transit states for drugs are now major consumers, owing to similar dramatic increases in opium and heroin addiction.
Closing Chernobyl may be the most dramatic, but it is only a single episode in our reform efforts.
Combating global climate change is probably the most dramatic current case.
The macro-story is simple, but dramatic.
The micro-story is more dramatic.
A bigger part of this increased productivity comes from the extraordinary technological revolutions in computers and communications that have led to dramatic increases in the usefulness - and decreases in the cost - of high-tech capital.
Memory of these 18 days is so crowded that it is difficult to separate one event from another, one phase from the next: the dramatic, the moving, the bizarre, and the unreal from the bathetic.
The anger of Tea Party Republicans (like the anger of Occupy Wall Street protesters) reflects a sense that nothing but dramatic, even revolutionary, measures can change the system.
In the meantime, even dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions will have very little impact on hurricanes 50-100 years from now.
As temperatures rise, however, the costs will rise and the benefits will decline, leading to a dramatic reduction in net benefits.
Another reason why international observers may be ignoring such obvious risks is that they have been preoccupied with more dramatic events in Greece and Ukraine.
Roughly two-thirds of these countries have had dramatic housing booms since 2000, most of which appear to be continuing, at least for the time being.
We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now - intuitively and in our historical reflexes - feel them to be.
That is one of many recent dramatic signs that our climate is changing and that our planet is warmer than it has been for a very long time.
This year's dramatic events in North Africa and the Middle East inspired people around the globe.
Congress initially rejected the measure, but a dramatic 770-point drop in the stock market focused politicians' minds, bringing them back to the table - and to agreement.
The dramatic weakening of the US dollar may help America to narrow its massive trade deficit, but we should not expect any sustained improvement without drastic changes in American management.
The second limitation of long run models is this: they are estimated from history and so make no allowance for dramatic changes in the supply side or financial environment.
Slowing the growth of government spending for Medicare and Social Security is necessary to prevent a long-term explosion of the national debt or dramatic increases in personal tax rates.
Indeed, ever since the Industrial Revolution, the rise of light manufacturing has driven a dramatic rise in national income.
Demographically, Russia is in a dramatic nose-dive; it remains economically and socially backward; its infrastructure is underdeveloped, as are its investments in education and vocational training.

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