thrilling
talking or behaving in a way that makes something seem much worse, more serious, more frightening, etc. than it really is:
"I'll never find another job!" "Don't be so dramatic! Of course you will!"
It may sound dramatic, but I felt like my life was over.
She burst into dramatic floods of tears.
What accounts for the dramatic turnabout in Britain's international trading performance?
There has been a dramatic shift in public opinion towards peaceful negotiations.公众对和平谈判的态度发生了巨大变化。
In 1986 he made a very public and dramatic political volte-face from Left to Right.1986年他在政治上公开来了个大转变，从左派变成了右派。
The increase in the number of young people leaving to work in the cities has had a dramatic impact on the demography of the villages.越来越多的年轻人到城市工作，这对乡村人口状况产生了巨大的影响。
He secured a dramatic victory for England by netting the ball half a minute before the end of the game.他在比赛结束前半分钟攻进一球，使英格兰队赢得了戏剧性的胜利。
"She has abandoned me," he said, which was a little dramatic.
It was rather a dramatic reaction to such a small comment.

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provocative
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dramaticadjective (THEATRE)

relating to plays and acting: 戏剧的;表演的
She bought me the complete dramatic works (= texts to be performed) of Brecht for my birthday.她买了全套的布莱希特戏剧集送给我作生日礼物。
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts美国戏剧艺术学院
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts皇家戏剧艺术学院

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Theatre - general words
audio described
audio description
break
break a legidiom
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diegetic
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dramatic | American Dictionary

dramatic
adjective
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dramaticadjective (RELATING TO THEATER)

relating to plays and acting:
He’s as good in comedies as he is in dramatic roles.

dramaticadjective (EXCITING)

(of an event or situation) producing excitement and strong interest because unexpected, surprising, or dangerous:
In a dramatic rescue, 10 crewmen were lifted to a helicopter just minutes before their ship sank.
Dramatic also means sudden and showing a big change:
There has been a dramatic reduction in crime in New York City.

Examples of dramatic

dramatic
He is a genuine dramatic personage under whose mask is a live actor who plays his role.
The poem is unusual in that it offers an impersonal account of a personal subject-matter and yet is seldom dramatic in its approach.
The movement is from private inner life to national crisis, and it is conveyed in different dramatic styles.
Not with dramatic pathology as are filariasis, or schistosomiasis, but with damage silent and insidious.
At that time musical speech and dramatic verisimilitude were not yet mutually exclusive.
Of course, that too, was a morally complex work, but its poignantly dramatic form does not, finally, efface the moral.
Even so, they were more dramatic than actions elsewhere in the world.
At the same time, the dramatic developments of the time had promoted the awareness that charity was the duty of one and all.
We are apt to speak of conversion when a person's self-understanding undergoes dramatic and fundamental revision.
The implied whole is a construct, even more than the particular dramatic moment.
Since these mobile plays contained little or no plot, the dramatic burden fell on the theme.
Manipulations of control had a clear and dramatic effect on judgement while evidence of unrealistic optimism unconfounded by control was absent.
Despite the claims that are often advanced, these errors did not have any dramatic consequences overall.
By contrast, most modern prehistorians would stress, as the major turning point, the dramatic importance of the domestication of plants and animals, the" neolithic revolution".
Analogous situations in our everyday lives are too obvious to require further comment, other than that they, too, have dramatic potential.
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