Dramaticness

His novels in the second place are idealistic novels;—because the duties of ordinary life are suppressed in them;—because they owe their dramaticness in general to the conflict between “passion” and “honour” [Cf. Alfred de Vigny, Grandeur et Servitude militaires];—and because vanquished honour and passion find no other refuge in them than in death [Cf. the habitual dénouements of classic tragedy].

The intensity, dramaticness and fire of her work, made the speaker seem almost as one translated.

“Your majesty—my Devil,” I say, and am more or less thrilled with the dramaticness and the picturesqueness of it all.

For soon were to sound out in all tragic dramaticness, now high now low, now in defeat and now jubilantly triumphant, the drums and tramplings of world-wide hostilities.

The country began to look theatrical, which was a pleasant change after Wells, and all my native dramaticness began to surge in me.

The dramaticness of this growth has been thus intensified by the stagnation which naturally ensued upon the disasters with which the century began.

All of the romance, pathos and dramaticness of the fascinating poetry of Longfellow in “Hiawatha” is brought out in the musical setting by the late Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in the two cantatas, “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast” and the “Death of Minnehaha,” which will be given by the choir of the Hartford Public High School in Foot Guard Hall Friday evening at 8:15 o’clock.

My father would tell us the stories of the places we went to with an incomparable conviction, and sense of the reality and dramaticness of the events.