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- adjective Not
dramatic ; notexciting ;mundane . - adjective In entertainment, not a
drama ; light entertainment.
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Examples
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And there's a paradox as great nations move forward in the world: In order to have a dramatically good influence, you must have a known bias toward the nondramatic, toward the merely prudent and wise.
From Disraeli to 'the Bang-Bang' Peggy Noonan 2011
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Less dramatic things — nondramatic things — sort of happen in kind of agreeable ways before then.
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Not only does the video concentrate solely on those nondramatic parts of life which are eliminated from most films, but it asks the viewer to watch in an unconventional way.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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Citing himself as an example--a Jew who specializes in "nondramatic Christian poetry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--he notes that "achieving that expertise was my job; being or becoming a Christian wasn't" 101.
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Citing himself as an example--a Jew who specializes in "nondramatic Christian poetry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"--he notes that "achieving that expertise was my job; being or becoming a Christian wasn't" 101.
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This section applies to any nondramatic musical work embodied in a phonorecord.
Matthew Yglesias » Jukeboxes are Killing The Recording Industry 2007
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I don't mean that snarkily--I'm genuinely interested in what the actual or perceived benefit to us might be and for the record, BJ, I teach Shakespeare but do not write on him; my scholarship in on nondramatic works.
Shakespeare Authorship, Part Four: A Few Final Thoughts Bardiac 2008
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A critic described Mr. Powell's autobiography as "gentle, dignified and nondramatic," which could also be said of his novels.
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MIT's powerful search engine can sniff out individual words, parts of words or word combinations in all 37 tragedies, histories and comedies, plus the nondramatic poems.
Shakespeare 2008
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Note this only applies to “nondramatic musical works.”
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