quasi-dramatic

Notable among his compositions from the next couple of years are two splendid quasi-dramatic cantatas, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (1708) and Apollo e Dafne (1709–10).

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That there seems to be less and less dramatic content and more and more commercial content, the two concepts merging into a commercial-tainment hybrid, where commerce is inextricably woven into quasi-dramatic content, the sole intent of which is to implant the impulse to consume in the malleable and massaged viewer.

Steven Weber: Deliverance 2009

Paracelsus, though only a series of quasi-dramatic scenes, suggested considerable undeveloped capacity for drama.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

It may be doubted whether the idea is one well suited to exhibition in a quasi-dramatic form.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

_Paracelsus_, though only a series of quasi-dramatic scenes, suggested considerable undeveloped capacity for drama.

Robert Browning 1892

If that be so, we need not assume a deity Lupercus, nor in fact any deity at all, nor need we see in the runners a quasi-dramatic representation of wolves as vegetation-spirits, as Mannhardt proposed (see my _Roman Festivals_, p. 316 foll.).

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

They are, in fact, quasi-dramatic celebrations of a process of going over from one status to another, and may be found in connection with all the experiences of man in a social state.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

In the literature of every other nation the form of personated authorship, when there is no _animus decipiendi_, has been recognized as a legitimate channel for the expression of opinions, or the quasi-dramatic representation of character.

Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

As poems of the soul in severe straits, made under a quasi-dramatic form, they reach

The Poetry Of Robert Browning 1874

"So Old/Playdate," was probably the strongest yet when it comes to showing the sitcom's multiple strengths: short stories and long, standup riffs and character pieces, observational comedy and dark, quasi-dramatic set pieces.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2010