How to Use high drama in a Sentence

high drama

noun
  • 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
  • Jay calling out the Grammys, right there on the Grammy stage, was a moment of high drama.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • There is high drama, as Scott reports, on Capitol Hill.
    CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
  • But when a scene of high drama — a love nest slaying — came straight to his doorstep, there were no special lighting and no camera in his hands.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
  • 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
  • This is the genius of Melville, of course, conveyed in glances and gestures: to turn the most elemental of impulses into the stuff of high drama.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Nicole Holofcener makes films that are about the high drama and inherent comedy in everyday life.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 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
  • There was high drama when world number-one Henrik Von Eckermann was thrown from his horse midway through his run.
    Gadi Schwartz, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • There was also plenty of high drama, like Rachel pausing and closing her eyes before standing on the wobbly platform for the last time.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But there was no real high drama or high comedy in those final 20 minutes.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The play and movie turned a couple of courtroom exchanges into moments of high drama, notably Darrow’s calling Bryan to the witness stand to testify to the truth of the Bible, and Bryan’s humiliation at his hands.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 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
  • In another day of high drama, Yoon avoided being ousted from office after members of his party left parliament and boycotted the vote.
    Andrew Torgan, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • There is something crucial that happens in those places, which television grabs hold of and amplifies into high drama, both medical and existential.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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

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