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dramatic event

n. an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional [syn: drama]

Usage examples of "dramatic event".

Is there a possibility, then, that Shakespeare was influenced by a dramatic event that took place in the time when he was writing the play?

It would scarcely have been noticed except for a dramatic event which would occur in relation to it eleven thousand years after its creation by the meandering stream.

A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life-affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.

The rain pounded all around, and she had a tense feeling that some dramatic event was imminent.

And the reason Ahmad couldn't accept these underground truths, refusing even to acknowledge their existence beneath the shifting sands of Egypt, was because he wanted so desperately to believe the founding of a dragomen's benevolent society in Cairo had been the most dramatic event of the nineteenth century, and therefore the most significant cause that anyone could have taken part in then.

A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less lifeaffirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.

A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life- affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.

I the11 knew nothing of the dramatic event of Ae morning, but by the evening it was certainly service with a ile down at the local quackery.

Then I had to leave, so I slipped out-and missed what must have been a really dramatic event if you care for that sort of thing.