Word: dramatising
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It is a scene from Watteau or Boucher come to delicate, lilting life. An amorous pastoral allegory in three acts, or entrees, its dramatis personae include shepherds, sylvans and fauns. One of the greatest hits of the 18th century, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Fetes d'Hebe proclaims the potency...
"You ain't seen nothin' yet," he crowed at every campaign stop. Ronald Reagan's signature line implied that he had big plans for his second term. But what were they? Not even his advisers seemed to know. They suggested that Reagan had not given any serious...
Yet, there is one last problem. A staff writer on The New Yorker, Malcolm is an adept practitioner of that serious-but-silky prose. The writing is polished and stainless; there is something appropriate about both her and Green speaking in the cultured dialect of the uptown Manhattan brownstone. It...
The three main characters plus a business client and two lovers of Michelle's constitute the dramatis personae. Their story appears little more than a cluster of vignettes, a series of day-in-the-life enes, all intimately personal but somehow not private. None of the important characters minds that...
Any movie whose dramatis personae include a lovable old coot (Richard Farnsworth), a wisdom-of-the-ages granny (Eva Le Gallienne), a six-year-old victim of cancer and a Benji-type mutt is pouring itself a tub of bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze...