dramatic moment

collocation in English

meaningsofdramaticandmoment

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dramatic
adjective
uk
/drəˈmæt.ɪk/us
/drəˈmæt̬.ɪk/
very sudden or noticeable, or full of action ...
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moment
noun
uk
/ˈməʊ.mənt/us
/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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(Definition ofdramaticandmomentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This represented adramaticmomentof instantiation of both continuity and change of tradition for a community in the process of confronting change.
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Sutermeister here displays remarkable powers of orchestration, a real gift for thedramaticmoment, and a high degree of literary taste.
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We hypothesize that the problem may involvedramaticmomentto moment variation in adrenocor tical activity.
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By winking at the spectator, the character delivers an unexpected rationalisation of thedramaticmoment, exposing its conventional apparatus; and then the communication among the characters resumes as before.
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This sound has adramaticmoment.
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They will not lightly forget those who cavilled and failed to give them full support at thisdramaticmomentin their history.
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The unskilled need really good counselling because not enough preparation is made for the verydramaticmomentwhen they leave school and leave their families and go out to work.
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I always thought that this the mostdramaticmomentof my life would be somehow not heard.
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The mostdramaticmomentoccurs when a sheriff mistakenly arrests him in the mistaken belief that he is an infamous highwayman.
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But everything building up to it is so messy that the solidlydramaticmomentalmost made me angry.
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This generally occurs when the work enters adramaticmoment, but the character continues to be comical regardless.
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He would have anotherdramaticmomentin the playoffs.
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It was at thisdramaticmoment, with everyone keyed up and ready to go, that the aerial photographs arrived.
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At the mostdramaticmoment, a young boy appears with instructions for the old man: to ring the bell.
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Not only do the seasons conclude with cliffhangers, but almost every episode finishes at a cliffhanger directly after or during a highlydramaticmoment.
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Wally's mostdramaticmomentcame the following year, in 1989, when he completed the down run at the age of 80.
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Lighting was used with precision to create carefully timed dramatic moments in particular songs.
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To modern sensibilities these key dramatic moments that withhold opera's defining force, the virtuosic voice, may seem odd.
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Indeed, the book's most dramatic moments come in the midst of such conflicts.
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His intellectual biography represents a trans-national life that intersected and engaged with the dramatic moments of the early twentieth century.
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