How to Use high drama in a Sentence

high drama

noun
Definition of high dramanext
  • Game 2 made up for it, and portends high drama the rest of the way..
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • This is not a film of high drama or massive arcs of change.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
  • If nothing else, the amos siblings agree on the high drama of their shared tale.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • All in all, a low-key way to pass the day, a gentle frame for the eventual injections of high drama.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • Hardly the high drama that makes for good television, but that’s OK.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The latest example of this high drama came late last month.
    — Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2015
  • Fast-paced and well-acted, the show is brutal, fascinating and full of high drama.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • This resurgence of the cape, and its modern takes, result in a trend that teeters between modesty, glamour, and high drama.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That sets the scene for some high drama, landscape-wise, with steep mountains cloaked with dense forests and deep blue waters ringed by charming lakeside towns.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
  • Disneyland is a place where emotions are heightened, a world of fantasy tales and high drama.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And that’s not lip service: The high drama but no-waste draping and ruching techniques that Rothschild specializes in stretches to fit many sizes and kinds of bodies.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Say this, too: The high drama of the show’s funeral scenes or the blunt tragicomedy of the again-as-farce restaging of the 2016 election weren’t what this particular show does notably well.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 28 May 2023
  • There’s sure to be high drama on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • After the Bite is a series of snapshots or vignettes capturing a community and its responses instead of a thriller or a work of high drama.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
  • Naturally, her exit came with a dose of high drama: fans sobbing, fireworks bursting, and a ragtime-esque outro from a live jazz band.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Chang provides one sort of dark laughs and Jin provides both high drama and a broader sort of comedy, since his character is stuck dealing with the apocalypse in red boxer-briefs and shiny galoshes for much of the series.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Jen Shah is behind bars for running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme (not that one), so the rest of the women have to plow ahead with another winter of high drama and petty differences all on their own.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Thanks equally to Jones and to Rice, as well as the cast’s maximalist performances, Interview crafts high drama out of what, on an inferior show, might come off as silly or affected.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 1 July 2024
  • At that moment of high drama, one environmental protester in the audience after another got to their feet and began to fulminate about the climate.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Lumet and a remarkable cast headed by Henry Fonda create high drama as jurors arguing a case that all but Fonda’s character sees as open-and-shut — leading him to dig in in an attempt to make everyone else see it his way.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The breakthrough came this week after months of high drama, including tumultuous behind-the-scenes negotiations, boardroom conflict and two spectacular U-turns by Redstone.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
  • Romantic love has stirred mere mortals into states of high drama, inspiring greatness, inducing folly and courting catastrophe.
    — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2023
  • OpenAI might win more loyalty from its customers or trust from regulators by opening up, but Altman has said the company didn’t lose any clients during its two weeks of high drama and generally has been greeted warmly by political leaders.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
  • That’s a dryly academic way of putting something that Willie, with his enviable oratorical powers, transforms into the stuff of excoriating comedy and high drama.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023

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