| 单词 | undramatic |
| 例句 | She turned to him with a face of composure and relief —the efficient and undramatic face which women achieve when they have nursing to do, or some other employment of efficiency. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was a double take, it was undramatic. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The first song from a Little Dragon album due March 27 is an electro-soul benediction for an undramatic relationship set to a low simmer. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It's the Graham Swift approach to storytelling – secure the reader's interest in the local or the undramatic with a promise, never fully realised, of payback down the line. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z “The way I live and work is undramatic. I’m not the sort of character you ordinarily see in the movies. I think it took tremendous guts on Redford’s part to play me.” William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands came to an undramatic close. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z The essence of Spies, he thought, was undramatic: getting to know what Stephen thinks he is seeing, and knowing as readers that reality must be something different. Book club: Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-15T21:55:13Z There are some fine orchestral effects, but all in all, this is an undramatic work that presents an unaccountably bland portrait of a rebellious, if self-lacerating intellectual, much admired by Camus and Trotsky, among others. Saariaho: La Passion de Simone – review 2013-05-09T22:30:01Z "Not that I'm a massive expert, but when I heard that they wanted to dig it up, I thought: hold on a minute – that's not good," he says, in his undramatic way. Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z I was trying to get an extended street perspective while keeping the subject mundane and undramatic. Pascal Campion’s “Twilight Avenue” 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Some of the individual dances in the Tharp show are good or better than that, but the context stops making them look good: they’re miscast, or they’re wasted in this undramatic clubland nonevent. Isherwood and Macaulay Spar Over ?Come Fly Away? 2010-03-31T22:26:00Z “We fit into each other’s lives in a very uncomplicated, undramatic way.” An Emergency Marriage License Erases Boundaries 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z It seemed to us irresistible - the irony of it and the undramatic, at least on the surface, nature of it felt appropriate to us. ArtsBeat: Vince Gilligan on 'Breaking Bad' and 'the Plumbing of It All' 2012-09-04T17:51:49Z It seems overlong and, given the rhythm and structure of Fitzgerald's text, often undramatic. Gatsby gives theatre a novel twist 2010-12-02T17:21:00Z “Margin Call” may remind you of “The Social Network” in the way it charges the stubbornly undramatic activities of looking at screens and scrabbling at keyboards with intensity and suspense. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z Two others, dressed somewhat like speed skaters, move in slow and undramatic unison. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This latest development takes this story line in a strangely undramatic direction. 'Downton Abbey' recap: All dogs go to heaven 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Ashe’s story certainly has moments of great drama and high tension, but, as a sports figure, he inspired decidedly undramatic sobriquets like “the gentle warrior.” ‘Citizen Ashe’ Review: Advantage, Arthur Ashe 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The effect is perhaps all the more pointed because of the undramatic and indeed minimalist modern-apartment set. Spoofing cellphone addiction, to hilarious effect 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z First nonstop flight of the day is a recipe for an undramatic flight, even at the height of spring break. How to avoid the worst flight ever 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z His play is a compendium of undramatic devices. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z His undramatic name is Arnold Beckoff, though he also goes by the more promising moniker of Virginia Ham. Review: Lessons in Love From a Drama Queen in ‘Torch Song’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Its scenes, quiet and undramatic, are nonetheless suffused with an almost lyrical intensity, and its sympathy is as limitless as its curiosity. ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Reveals Minervini’s Texas 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The fact that Wilkinson backs the idea that the three men met relatively prosaic deaths might seem undramatic. The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson – review 2013-03-31T13:00:01Z The screen is full of landscapes and undramatic footage; Hassan doesn’t need to show you the story to get its impact. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z In an undramatic end to a dramatic situation, Ben tells his suitors, “I enjoy and appreciate each one of you.” 'The Bachelor' Watch: Bahama Drama 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z She would be gracious and undramatic about meeting me. Meeting his family, disowned by my own 2014-01-08T23:59:00Z There’s probably an idea at work here, too — that the repression of style and tone reflect the situation on screen — but it’s an awfully undramatic one. Review: ‘Stockholm, Pennsylvania,’ With Cynthia Nixon, About Life After Release 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The living and the dead converse calmly and matter-of-factly, as if nothing especially unusual were going on, and this undramatic blending of the bizarre and the banal is one of Mr. Weerasethakul’s signatures. | 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives': A Farewell to This Life, and All Its Ghosts 2011-03-01T22:56:29Z Unfortunately, it's also the high point of Smith's novel, which is as turgid and undramatic a thriller as I've read. 'The Farm' cultivates little suspense for a thriller 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Kirk Douglas's victory in the Most Noteworthy Moment category — easily trumping 's F-word sally — was a measure of how undramatic this year's Academy Awards were. Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech 2011-02-28T09:20:46Z “He assumes progress will be gradual and, one senses, relatively undramatic. And in this, as in almost everything about his views on race in America, Kennedy is both resolutely temperate and probably right.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The surprise is that the library, though insistently undramatic, has been, pretty much since its inception, so insistently attractive to interesting characters. The Library Fire That Ignited an Author’s Imagination 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z And rather than tell a life story — which in opera tends to result in episodic, undramatic works — Cruz hews to classical unities, with a focused plot that unfolds on the Mexican Day of the Dead. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z An exceptionally intense account of a work often seen as undramatic, it brought home the point that peace and calm are not the same thing. LPO/N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-01-25T18:55:00Z All biographers face the task of wrangling the unruly particulars and generally undramatic shape of a life and a career into a coherent narrative. film: Anti-Biopics Series at Anthology Film Archives 2010-07-09T07:25:00Z His podium style in both rehearsals and performances was courteous, clear and undramatic, an embodiment of the orchestra’s outlook that is captured even on its drink coasters: “Music. Pure + Simple.” Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra Head to Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Project Mercury’s mission to blast the first American astronauts into space was fastidiously undramatic. ‘The Real Right Stuff’ Review: A Movie Still Waiting for Liftoff 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Not helped by the lack of chemistry between him and Will Johnson's Bihi, the production seems inherently undramatic. The Great Goat Bubble – review 2012-07-19T17:30:02Z "The Happenings were very casual, striving in a way toward the undramatic," he said. Getty Research Institute gets photos of performance art 'Happenings' 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Aditya is good at showing the undramatic daily business of life, but as his privileged young characters muse and amble around, you start to want something more from this film. | 'Hi-So': ?Hi-So? at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-09-07T22:05:36Z Still, a sink perpetually brimming with dirty dishes is a proxy for all that is tedious and tiresome about life at the undramatic edges of this crisis. The dishes will never be done 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Sittenfeld even draws us into the deskbound process of writing and editing a script — activities that seem inherently undramatic but become, in her telling, the stuff of great excitement. Review | Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Romantic Comedy’ finds love in an SNL-like place 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The man was detained by Norwegian border guards and the arrest was undramatic, police said, adding that he went to a private house in the border area and asked for help. Norway wants to talk to asylum-seeker from Wagner Group 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The man, who was only identified by authorities as a foreigner, was detained by border guards and the arrest was undramatic, police said. High-ranking Wagner Group member seeks asylum in Norway 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z And both are dogged by poor poll numbers, in part because of economic ills but also because their pragmatic, undramatic style can seem ill-suited to the polarized politics of post-Brexit Britain and post-Trump America. For Sunak, Like Biden, Dullness Could Be a Secret Weapon 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z This was an undramatic conclusion to years of speculation that the former high school phenom might try to angle his way out of New Orleans, one of the NBA’s smallest markets. Analysis | Zion Williamson picks max extension with Pelicans over nuclear option 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z According to the New York Times, “Ashe’s story certainly has moments of great drama and high tension, but, as a sports figure, he inspired decidedly undramatic sobriquets like ‘the gentle warrior.’ New movies to stream this week: ‘Huda’s Salon,’ ‘Fresh’ and more 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Davis Cup captain and humanitarian: “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” Novak Djokovic’s legacy, bid for 21st Grand Slam are dealt another setback 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Journalism tends to look away from people at the end of life, especially at the undramatic end of a long life. Notes From the End of a Very Long Life 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z ‘This is the undramatic heart of the occupation.’ Review: An American novel manages, for once, to get Israel right 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z It was a dramatic moment, but also surprisingly undramatic in that, you know, there were obviously not sufficient numbers of police or barricades. 11 Journalists on Covering the Capitol Siege: ‘This Could Get Ugly’ 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z At one level totally undramatic, Sherriff magically re-calibrates our norms of what is and isn’t wonderfully exciting till we become utterly tuned into the rise and fall of this family’s emotions. Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Wallace’s actions took the seemingly undramatic form of a footnote, a short passage he wrote in a 1982 brief filed with the Supreme Court case Bob Jones University v. Lawrence Wallace, Supreme Court advocate with a famous footnote, dies at 88 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The stance by the two Democrats was perhaps as undramatic as the outcome of the impeachment trial itself, which had been preordained by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, to end with an acquittal. Washington Sens. Murray and Cantwell vote to convict Trump on impeachment articles 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Everything about him, from the simple language he uses at news conferences to his demeanor on Capitol Hill, conveys that he is relatable, ordinary and decidedly undramatic. Ordinary or ‘Enemy’? How Jay Powell Is Positioning the Fed in a Fraught Era 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Grandma and Pa were the stable, loving, undramatic and solid figures in Frankel’s life. Review | The Holocaust, mental illness and a family’s secrets 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Such a walk might have felt aimless or undramatic, but whenever a reader’s attention might flag, Neely steers us back to the journals of Crespi, “arguably California’s first writer.” Review: San Diego to San Francisco: An artful tale of walking California 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Sally's last words to David were supposed to be heartfelt but undramatic. 'My mum killed my dad but I want her freed' 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “The Mule” is the indefatigable Eastwood’s second film just this year, following “The 15:17 to Paris,” a distinctly undramatic dramatization of the thwarted 2015 train attack, starring the real-life heroes. Review: In ‘The Mule,’ Clint reflects on a life on the road 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z She’s actually very undramatic and seems to tell it like it is. Why did you leave the group chat? 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Pinter weaves threads between these three completely unalike characters and creates drama out of an undramatic situation – and comedy, too. My favourite Pinter by Antony Sher, Hayley Squires and Paapa Essiedu 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z This seems undramatic to me, but when the 46-year-old O’Neill takes a turn looking through the letterbox, she lurches backward as if stung. This Dublin Block Tells the Story of the City 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z This undramatic politics, moreover, was rooted in what seemed to many a persuasive analysis of the modern world. The death of consensus: how conflict came back to politics 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z But May was able to release the text of a three-page agreed statement before cabinet, following a relatively undramatic day of discussions. Theresa May faces Tory anger over soft Brexit proposal 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z The new report’s forecast for Social Security is comparatively undramatic. A crucial Medicare trust fund will run out three years earlier than predicted, new report says 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It was all pretty undramatic – especially compared to 2013 and 2014, when migrants jammed Mexican trains heading north – but Trump’s angry tweets raised hackles in Mexico. Illegal immigrant ‘caravan’ makes camp in Oaxaca, Mexico 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z California’s capital city provides a dramatically undramatic backdrop for Greta Gerwig’s festival favorite, “Lady Bird,” which will appear in theaters later this fall. Review | In ‘Brad’s Status,’ Ben Stiller embodies midlife angst in the age of social media 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z In the tradition of the English nature poets he writes about, as well as of contemporary “psychogeographers” who seek playful new ways to explore urban environments, Cregan-Reid ventures out most often into undramatic, everyday landscapes. Opinion | Chasing revelation on a long-distance run through a natural landscape 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Young cited unspecified "personal reasons" when he quit the show on Tuesday, later adding that the reasons for his exit were "undramatic". Will Young's Strictly exit 'not to do with Len Goodman', says Darcey Bussell - BBC News 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Will Young says he is "absolutely dandy" after leaving Strictly Come Dancing, stressing that his early exit is "undramatic". Will Young says Strictly Come Dancing exit is 'undramatic' - BBC News 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In a similarly undramatic vein, average hourly earnings rose a healthy 2.4% from a year earlier, just below the 2.6% pace of the last two months. Jobs Report: Cool August Soothes Markets 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The rest of the draft order fell just as the odds had forecast, making for a historic but undramatic night. A behind-the-scenes look as NBA draft lottery luck favors sorry 76ers, Lakers 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Sheehan said complaints about Indian Point were frequent, but they were also largely about undramatic issues. Indian Point nuclear plant reeks of troubled history but village is conflicted 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z In April 2014, Mr. Long’s captivity ended in the most undramatic of ways. ‘Sea Slaves’: Forced Labor for Cheap Fish 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It said: "Here's the thing. I'm absolutely dandy, thanks. It's all very undramatic, really. "I've done my statement and others can say what they want to say. Will Young says Strictly Come Dancing exit is 'undramatic' - BBC News 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Then, they take a high estimate of background extinctions to compare with, to make the modern figures as undramatic as possible. The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the fault is ours 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z For 10 years, the sports community had been fixated on the uncommon Snee-Coughlin relationship, but in most cases, the two men had made it seem a seamless, undramatic union. Chris Snee and Tom Coughlin Recall Father-Son Talk About Snee’s Retirement 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Often, however, these visitors to the cold north found the Soviet Union drab and mendacious, and that is the animating theme of Kadare’s tale, in which even the Kremlin walls are “unfinished, apathetic and undramatic.” Book review: ‘Twilight of the Eastern Gods,’ by Ismail Kadare As of early in the morning of 29 August, this development appeared to be relatively small and undramatic. Icelandic volcano erupts 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z When I came out to the world a few months ago in Rolling Stone, my dad was his typical undramatic self. Neon Trees Singer: How I Told My Dad I'm Gay 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The undramatic email exchange appears to be the first internal communication by Snowden, while he was working for the NSA, to be publicly released. Snowden raised concerns in 2013 email, but no evidence he blew whistle: NSA 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z That undramatic outcome was just about what Searle expected from this latest contretemps. U.K. and Spain Entangled in Gibraltar Border Spat 2013-08-08T08:05:28Z “The CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rather undramatic,” a Republican congressman from California, Dana Rohrabacher, said in a Congressional hearing several years ago. Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone 2013-05-10T17:28:37Z Wonky, professional and grounded in decades of staff work in the obscure world of Washington budget politics, Lew’s reputation is decidedly undramatic. Jack Lew: Obama's Pick for Treasury Scares the GOP 2013-01-10T19:05:46Z He is so nervous and fidgety and undramatic that he misses every point. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z It is a fine poem, written in blank verse, like an English tragedy, and not in Dutch Alexandrines; but it is undramatic, and has not held the boards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z To such students things undramatic are often vocal, denoting the progress of a mind. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z They were devoted to a serious purpose and presented tragic situations with a free admixture of comedy, and they continued many of the older traditions of stage performance and undramatic form. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z But these two comedies, almost contemporary as they are with the academic and undramatic tragedy of 'Gorboduc,' are far superior to it in adaptability for actual performance. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Utter inaction, both physical and mental, of a figure represented on the stage does not mean that it is necessarily undramatic. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Even after the general movement began in the saloon, it was quiet movement and curiously undramatic; no crying out, no mad rush for the deck. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z If that sounds undramatic, that's because it is – a relatively technical change in the creditworthiness of one country, and yet another downgrade of a European state borrower. Eurozone crisis: The pain in Spain 2011-03-11T00:51:00Z Moreover, these lifeless and undramatic mixtures of rhetorical verbiage, melodramatic situations, and endless declamations had the advantage of being easy to imitate. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z No one can call it undramatic or tame. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z If so, he will develop a technique which will create in his public a satisfaction equal to that which the so-called undramatic story, character, or idea could give in story form. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The method is to our taste undramatic, but it is explicable enough. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z The stage fashion of making the Friar stolidly indifferent to the unexpected complication that has arisen through Tybalt’s death is not only undramatic, but inconsistent with the text. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Caroline Wozniacki wins in such a workmanlike, undramatic way that many tennis observers overlook what she does do well. Straight Sets: Analysis: How Wozniacki Keeps Winning 2011-01-23T18:47:19Z It is generally undramatic and uneventful: it is not generally marked even by a new dish or a bottle of rare wine. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z A dramatist may see in the so-called undramatic material emotional values. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Throughout her career Whitman demonstrated a flair for the undramatic, for doing her chores well and showing little vanity. Organized Chaos 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z But functional institutions will take a decade or more, their successes will be undramatic, and many will be difficult to quantify. 2010-01-22T18:10:00Z Empedocles is as undramatic a poem perhaps as was ever written in dramatic form, but studded with lyrical beauties of a very high order. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Lovely finish to First Act, but after that the Opera is not a stirring one, the story being so idiotically undramatic. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 Thirdly, it should be clear that a statement one meets too frequently in books on the drama, that certain stories or characters, above all certain well-known books, are essentially undramatic material is at least dubious. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Of these the magnificent, but in construction altogether undramatic, Count Julian, is the most noteworthy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" But she could not do so without giving vent to her feelings, which she did in the very undramatic act of poking the fire. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Earnest! why there it is now! the women, dear creatures, are always ready enough to produce effect—but the men are so curst undramatic.—Go to her, I tell you, go to her. The Dramatist; or Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, in Five Acts There seems to be a slur cast upon this play; the reason of which is its very undramatic character, and the consequent non-appearance of its name in theatrical records. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 The kind, happy d�nouement is unfortunately absolutely undramatic, which will be our only trouble in quarrying out the play. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) At times his characters will speak with something far beyond propriety—with a true heroic note; but on the next page they will be wading wearily forward with an ungrammatical and undramatic rigmarole of words. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 She could not yet know how she had been impressed by the simple page of plain, undramatic kindness and generosity which Jane's life opened daily to her eyes. A Prairie Infanta In such matters Alfieri was as undramatic as Corneille or Racine. The Countess of Albany The undramatic character of "Troilus and Cressida," which has been already mentioned, appears in its structure, its personages, and its purpose. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Mr. Sharp, while emphasizing the undramatic quality of the play, counts it "the most imperishable because the most nearly immaculate of Browning's dramatic poems." Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning They were among the late comers, and the curious were waiting to witness their reception, which proved to be disappointingly undramatic. Otherwise Phyllis Ours was just a commonplace, undramatic loss—with only need for saving and retrenchment. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 That these tragedies contain much that is undramatic is undoubtedly true, but it must be remembered that at the time he wrote, Æschylus found the drama in a very primitive state. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes The rest is indicated in the crudest dialogue, written so hastily that it is often undramatic and nearly always without wit or beauty. William Shakespeare It scarcely seemed appropriate, and the whole scene was singularly undramatic, and in a curious fashion almost unimpressive; but Breckenridge, who came of a reticent stock, understood. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter This undramatic slaughter was slower than the work of the guns, but it was as thorough. Young Hilda at the Wars It will be said, perhaps, that this would have been undramatic and that such a view is merely sentimental and subversive of all true art. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' While she trudged home—a pleasant, inconspicuous, fluffy-haired young woman, undramatic as a field daisy—a cataract of protest poured through her. The Job An American Novel It seems to me, on the contrary, that the whole action, undramatic as it is in the strict sense of the theatre, is breathlessly interesting. Figures of Several Centuries Her opera has received much praise, but the final verdict rates it as rather confused and undramatic, in spite of much good music in the score. Woman's Work in Music He waved his hand deprecatingly as though ashamed that it was so slight and undramatic a tale. The Seventh Noon He has brought back into English drama all the streams of fact or tendency which are commonly called undramatic. George Bernard Shaw It plays its undramatic part in domestic scenes, avoiding, rather than asking, the notice of the world. The Friendships of Women The critics seem agreed that it was long drawn out and undramatic, but that it was well written and well acted. Irish Plays and Playwrights Again we are dealing with a subject that in the plain meaning of the word is entirely undramatic. The Craft of Fiction The telling of his story to Donal had been a marvellous thing because he had so controlled its drama that it had even been curiously undramatic. Robin But the occasions when we get glimpses of him as really a great man are on these occasions when he is utterly undramatic. George Bernard Shaw Because little happened worth the telling; for growth is so still and so dull and so undramatic that it escapes interest and climax; yet it is all there is in life. A Certain Rich Man The survivors are now absorbed once more in the undramatic industry of Lancashire. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 To announce the fact, with a tabulation of his reasons, would be the historic, retrospective, undramatic way of dealing with the matter. The Craft of Fiction It has sometimes been said that the style of Browning is essentially undramatic, that Pompilia, Guido, and the lawyers all talk in the same way, that is, like Browning. An Introduction to the Study of Browning These can be used, not only for such undramatic purposes as those just listed, but for a great many plays as well. Public Speaking It went on evenly, clearly, dominating the crowded room by the drama of its undramatic timbre. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus are tragic histories or historical tragedies, in which Shakespeare acknowledged in practice a certain obligation to follow his authority, even when that authority offered him an undramatic material. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth An undramatic subject, we find, can be treated dramatically, so that the different method is at hand. The Craft of Fiction The fourth act particularly, undramatic as it is, is full of a delicate beauty that defies transcription. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works I have, you see, tried a sketch in Marino Faliero; but many people think my talent 'essentially undramatic,' and I am not at all clear that they are not right. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals I think it is quite unfit for the stage, where the little poetical merit it possesses would necessarily be lost; besides, its construction is wholly undramatic. Records of a Girlhood But the process of merely acquiring information is unpleasant, and the direct imparting of it is undramatic. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Yet these plodding and undramatic notes arouse in Germany a feeling very different from one of ridicule. Germany, The Next Republic? Equally undramatic, untrue, false in feeling, are the sentimental ditties sung by Alfredo's father. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians I read Cenci—but, besides that I think the subject essentially undramatic, I am not an admirer of our old dramatists, as models. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals In truth, Dr. Percy was making a collection in the two volumes of all the English undramatic blank verse he could discover, prior to the publication of Milton's great poem. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 This weakness in King Lear is not due, however, to anything intrinsically undramatic in the story, but to characteristics which were necessary to an effect not wholly dramatic. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth I realised that, as an art form, the plan was essentially undramatic, but the thought of it gave me, nevertheless, a distinct feeling of pleasure. The Jervaise Comedy The music is like the stagecraft: now and then simply dramatic, now and then stagily undramatic; sometimes rich and splendid, sometimes threadbare and vulgar. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Every other line, one might almost say, is an instance of it; and yet not a single lineis undramatic, or deficient in the strictest and plainest dramatic propriety. The Age of Shakespeare "Ah, heartless one—" Mollie was beginning, when with a laugh Betty hooked an arm through hers and hustled the dramatic one in very undramatic fashion, up the steps into the Hostess House. The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers This whole difficulty is undramatic; and I may add that Shakespeare nowhere shows, like Chaucer, any interest in speculative problems concerning foreknowledge, predestination and freedom. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth The girl's manner was as simple, as undramatic, as possible. V. V.'s Eyes 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. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Those long narratives, which some find so tedious, so undramatic, are part of Wagner's protest against the frequently false emphasis of action. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory This meeting between the lovers was singularly undramatic. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 Worse still, it would have the effect on our comparatively undramatic race of crushing out every spark of originality and of wholly hindering the development of histrionic talent. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Hebbel leaned somewhat upon Norse myths in his reproduction of them, though it was part of his plan to preserve a certain indistinctness and mystery in these undramatic presuppositions. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig As Gounod failed in "Romeo," and failed in every other opera, so every modern composer who tries to treat dramatic subjects in the old undramatic form has failed, and will fail. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Mr. Phillips's talent was predominantly undramatic; he was too much the poet to allow his feeling to be guided by historical material. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini Yet it is incurably weak in the motives which determine the action; and certain passages are almost ludicrously undramatic. Robert Browning These two have been defrauded of their rights by the undramatic Librettist, who has done about as little as possible with the excellent materials at his command. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 Their own story is essentially undramatic, although it possesses qualities which would make it effective in narrative; and it is, moreover, wholly unaffected by the solution of the other plot. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England But these are only episodes, scattered jewels separated by much that is undramatic. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The Great War is essentially undramatic, it has no hero, it has no great leaders. What is Coming? He made the soul the protagonist of life’s tragedy, and looked on action as the one undramatic element of a play. Intentions She sat back, neglected, frozen, unheroic heroine in a drama insanely undramatic. Main Street At times his characters will speak with something far beyond propriety with a true heroic note; but on the next page they will be wading wearily forward with an ungrammatical and undramatic rigmarole of words. Memories and Portraits But it has fewer beauties than any other long letter of Junius; and it is utterly undramatic. Literary Remains, Volume 1 It turns upon motives which are not apparent from the actions and have to be explained in dreary and most undramatic length. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama For a general discussion of what we mean by the terms "dramatic" and "undramatic" the reader may refer back to Chapter III. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship At times his characters will speak with something far beyond propriety with a true heroic note; but on the next page they will be wading wearily forward with an ungrammatical and undramatic rigmarole of words. Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Its entry, as I say, was gentle, hardly noticeable, in fact, to most of us: singularly undramatic it certainly was. Three More John Silence Stories This mode of destruction being slow and undramatic, and an attempt to blow it up with gunpowder having proved equally unsatisfactory, the torch was applied, and the structure given to the flames. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 But the objection—to me at least—is not that the action is at a standstill, but that the scene is undramatic, and much of it unmitigated prose. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama I have summarized it up to its culminating point, because it happened to illustrate the difference between a bankruptcy, dramatic in its nature and treatment, and those undramatic bankruptcies to which reference has been made. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship The plays of Dryden and his school are at best but moc-heroic; and they are essentially undramatic. English literary criticism The book of the opera proved to be undramatic in the extreme, a defect which was emphasized by the execrable pronunciation of nearly all the singers at the performance on the stage at the Academy. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time It also was to convoy us, but it had a most undramatic entrance; and besides we had sighted land. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me Even a murder may be undramatic, while the mere utterance of the word "Yes," by a paralyzed woman to a paralyzed man may be the most dramatic thing in the world. Writing for Vaudeville We shall probably not arrive at any definition which can be applied as an infallible touchstone to distinguish the dramatic from the undramatic. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship How prosaic and undramatic are the moments in which a modern career is made or marred! A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus It is a matter of undramatic daily cooperation in hundreds of workaday tasks: of currencies kept in effective relation, of development loans meshed together, of standardized weapons, and concerted diplomatic positions. State of the Union Address But, for herself, life seemed deplorably, maddeningly undramatic. Saturday's Child —That model schoolboy, Stephen said, would find Hamlet's musings about the afterlife of his princely soul, the improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato's. Ulysses But do not let him reject a theme or scene as undramatic merely because it has no room for a clash of warring wills. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship But its colour and poesy do not compensate for the diffuseness of the plot and the undramatic conclusion. Balzac Mrs. Chints handed the baby to the nurse, and beat an undramatic and hasty retreat, her husband following in a dazed sort of manner, treading on her train at every other step. A Face Illumined But everywhere it bore drama into undramatic lives, and carried the trump of crisis across the world. Manalive But she accepted things as they came, being of the type around which the dramas of life are enacted, while remaining totally undramatic herself. The Breaking Point Something of the fatal languor and preoccupation that persist beneath all the violence of our stage—our national undramatic character—is perceptible in the narrative of our literature. Hearts of Controversy Consequently she was sure to be denounced as unnatural and undramatic by the critics. Mrs. Warren's Profession |
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