(n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.
(n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
(n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
(2) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
(3) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(4) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
(5) There could be no faulting the atmosphere or the football drama.
(6) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
(7) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(8) "We don't think British drama is failing because these things are so good – it just shows that other countries do good drama."
(9) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(10) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(11) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(12) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(13) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
(14) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.
(15) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(16) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
(17) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(18) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
(19) (Personally, I think a perfect contemporary drama would highlight the quiet, fraught, human, ongoing battle between those who want to live life and those who want to live life electronically.
(20) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
Proverb
Definition:
(n.) An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.
(n.) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
(n.) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
(n.) A drama exemplifying a proverb.
(v. t.) To name in, or as, a proverb.
(v. t.) To provide with a proverb.
(v. i.) To write or utter proverbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(2) He quoted a Chinese proverb that to be a painter "you need the eye, the hand and the heart.
(3) "We have an African proverb: when two elephants fight, the grass gets trampled."
(4) A Group by Type of Proverb (familiar versus unfamiliar) interaction was found for bizarre-idiosyncratic scores; (Per-Mags) scored higher than controls on unfamiliar, but not familiar proverbs.
(5) Judgment and abstraction are examined by assessing the client's ability to interpret proverbs and plot a sensible course of action.
(6) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(7) The proverbs appeared either in their original form or with their final word changed to be incongruous with the sentence context.
(8) More men in the rural area expected help in old age from their sons (10.1%) rather than their daughters (6.1%), despite the fact that a popular proverb exists, especially among the Creoles, that sons are for the mother while the daughters are for the father.
(9) Holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy he has time to think, and quoted both Aristotle and the Books of Proverbs on the natural human thirst for knowledge and understanding on the world in which we live.
(10) A proverb of the Buddhist religion often quoted by physicist Richard Feynman encapsulates the whole discussion, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
(11) Familiarity with a proverb increased the probability of its correct interpretation.
(12) Russians have a proverb: beat your own so the others fear you.
(13) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(14) It was also found that performance on the proverb task steadily improved at least through the eighth grade and was significantly correlated to performance on a perceptual analogical reasoning task.
(15) Libyans have a saying: “In Libya it is region against region; in the regions, tribe against tribe; in the tribes, family against family.” The five years following the revolution gave grim confirmation to that proverb.
(16) 36 male patients (12 schizophrenic, 12 organic, and 12 neurotic), age 19-57, each took two forms of the Gorham Proverbs test under two different instructional sets.
(17) But we have a Russian proverb which goes: “Even an old lady can have a roof falling on her.
(18) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
(19) But our favourite has to be this – somewhat dubious – suggestion from Bill Wright, relating to Proverbs 13:23: " A poor man's field may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it away."
(20) The data were collected using the Benjamin Proverb Test and rating scales for psychopathology and adverse effects.