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dramatics
[ druh-mat-iks ]
dramatics
/ drəˈmætɪks /
noun
- functioning as singular or plural
- the art of acting or producing plays
- dramatic productions
- usually functioning as plural histrionic behaviour
Word History and Origins
Origin of dramatics1
Example Sentences
Then, for dramatics and bonus patriotism points, he added “for the good of the country.”
After he said, “go ahead,” she “took a handful and swallowed them with gusto and no dramatics.”
Not unlike the Oscars, the Razzies ceremony is a rickety mix of sharp wit, amateur dramatics, and musical pastiche.
Virginia colleges and universities also keep the theater alive by sponsoring dramatics classes, workshops and plays.
No public scandal—no dramatics, my friend, or as sure as you are sitting here you will have to answer to me.
"I don't want to play up anything now that will sound like dramatics," the lawyer went on in a soothing voice.
In her chance to make good in high school dramatics she had clumsily backed into the stand and upset it, breaking the vase.
She was Anne Weeks, a slender, dark-haired girl of 25 who had attended the state university and majored in dramatics.
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