dramatic

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The libretto is cumbersome although full of dramatic promise and surprise and with a comic episode that prefigures “Falstaff.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

The words you use are extremely dramatic — “living hell,” “scapegoat” and “endless power struggle” — and reveal how much of a toll this drama has already taken on your lives.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

Families in North Northamptonshire affected by the sudden and dramatic rise in the cost of heating oil are being offered an emergency grant of £150.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

With four sympathetic votes, Wilcox said, the board could take dramatic steps to dismantle the institution’s traditional structure, potentially including attempts to remove regional reserve bank presidents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Second, the improbably symmetrical ending to the dialogue casts an irresistibly dramatic spell over the entire story and the way to tell it.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis