Conversation in a screenplay

Usage examples of dialog.

Getting to me, the essayist mentioned the fact that my style was clumsy, my dialog stilted, my characterization non-existent, but that there was no question that my books were -turners.

There is the clever interweaving of plot, the handling of dialog, and a thousand other intricacies.

In the romantic period of literature in the first part of the nineteenth century, the style of dialog tended to be elaborate and adorned.

Of course, Shakespeare had his clowns and Dickens had his Sam Wellers, and in both cases, dialog was used that mangled the English language to some extent--but that was intended as humor.

Nevertheless, it is my contention that dialog is realistic when, and only when, it reflects the situation as you describe it and when it produces the effect you wish to produce.

Flinx knew, anxious dialog and emotional manipulation was unlikely to sway them.

Prominent in his hearing was the methodic dialog of slowly awakening mechanisms: clicks, hums, snaps, buzzes, rising and descending whines, trills, burbles, and a hundred unfamiliar auricular pulsations.

And even more important, do not automatically click Yes in any dialog box that may indicate a security issue, such as an invalid, expired, or revoked digital certificate.

One part of me talks like you, and then I have a dialog with myself like a TV show about a split personality.

They both listened to the rapid-fire dialog between the paired everminds.

He also strove, as we have just said, to discern the voice-ideas of the future, seeking to divine them, so to speak, in the place prepared for them in the dialog of the present, in the same way that it is possible to foresee a reply which has not yet been uttered in a dialog which is already in progress.

Above all, he destroyed the self-enclosed monological form of his idea-prototypes and made them part of the great dialog of his novels, where they begin to live a new, eventful artistic life.

As equal participants in the great dialog, they simply do not have such a function.

X-Men, listening to the audience chuckle over the inane dialog, exclaiming at the second-rate special effects, such was the nature of my thoughts, and it occurred to me that not only was the film an exemplar of cultural decline, but a parable that might be interpreted as an illumination of our essential dilemma.

While in the hospital, Charles is visited by Barjo,who reads him sections of his file on Fan-Fan, complete with dialog samples, that testify to her infidelity.