Meaning

The quality of being dramatic..

Example Sentences

“You must blame me for that: as stage manager, with an eye to dramatic effect, I forbade it,” said the doctor; “though one might as well expect heat from an iceberg as extract a spark of—of dramaticity from either of you.”

But Fra Filippo was too fine a psychologist not to understand that in a similar theme the manifestation of grief was absolutely essential; he therefore had recourse to an ingenious stratagem, introducing in his composition the two female mourners, in whose features he sought to condense, so to say, all the emotion and dramaticity which he was debarred from expressing through the medium of his portrait figures.

Obviously, in these three types of dramaticity, the parties use narratives involving national identity by invoking the cultural icons most favorable for legitimizing their interests.

Theatricality and dramaticity are indivisible in Western dramaturgy, and they are also what enable the comparison and confrontation between European forms and cultural performances and performance practices from the rest of the world.

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When Should You Use Dramaticity?

Use dramaticity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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