A Liberal Democrat MP has tabled a motion in parliament accusing the BBC of 'dramatising' its reporting of the economic downturn engulfing the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"dramatising" were practised were startlingly better in reading, in attentiveness, and in general power of expression, than the pupils of like social conditions in the same grades of other cities which I visited soon after, and in which the more conventional methods were exclusively used. ❋ Sara Cone Bryant (N/A)
The theatre has become particularly known for its verbatim political plays, including Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor's dramatising of the Hutton inquiry and the Macpherson inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's murder. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Cycling over Hampstead Heath, I wonder if by dramatising his school days Hare is retreating from the bafflement of politics. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Other proposals include dramatising classical philosophical texts and installing a trail of busts of great philosophers around the town. ❋ Steven Morris (2010)
If you went for the suicide bomber opening, the only valid reason for me for dramatising it in a prologue is to get across the political and personal viewpoint of the perpetrator. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
The story Issie liked to tell was that her mother had left the children to go and apply her lipstick – which is straight out of A Handful of Dust – but Detmar disputes the veracity of this: Issie, too, could be self-dramatising. ❋ Rachel Cooke (2010)
It is just a prologue, aimed at dramatising exposition that I would have to explain in the main body of the text otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Able to relate to the world only through his viewfinder, reclusive cameraman Mark Lewis Karlheinz Böhm becomes the embodiment of what Scorsese calls "the pathology, the obsession, the compulsion of cinema", his crimes dramatising "the dangers of gazing". ❋ Mark Kermode (2010)
He backed a bold (if futile) experiment in finding new candidates and eventually gambled on Boris Johnson, a risky choice but one dramatising what the new Conservatism was about. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Whilst you can be 2ic of the Government, please stop over dramatising this! ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)
In dramatising the jeopardy faced by would-be illegal immigrants to the US, as they make their incredibly risky journeys across Central America, Sin Nombre succeeds in telling a very specific story, with very specific and well drawn characters, that also illuminates some truth of countless real ordeals. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Narration is in the present tense, dramatising Bateman's obsessive dedication to a lifestyle. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yvonne is a self-dramatising boulevard Jocasta, while her husband, George, is a failed inventor obsessed with creating an underwater machine gun. ❋ Michael Billington (2010)
Under her raincoat she is dressed in black, the costume of the self-dramatising existentialists, with her sleeves industriously rolled up. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now American comics publisher Fantagraphics Books, home to titles by authors including R Crumb and Charles Schulz, has acquired rights in the book and will publish it next summer, describing it as "the kind of extrapolative, futuristic feat of imagination that a reader would expect from the author of Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded — a mind-boggling tour de force, dramatising outré theories with a science fiction patina". ❋ Unknown (2010)
Without dramatising it reminds me of Caligula or Nero in Ancient Rome. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The list, released today, also includes two films: a record of life on the Hebridean island of St Kilda a few years before its inhabitants were evacuated to the mainland in 1930, and a 152 minute-long silent film from 1918 dramatising the life and career of the then prime minister, David Lloyd George, thought to be the first biopic ever made of a living politician. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yet it's a massive improvement upon the catastrophic ramblings of Southland Tales, and reminds us that Kelly (who kick-started his career with the sparkling Donnie Darko) does have a genuine talent for dramatising the uncomfortable interface between paranoid fantasy and twisted reality. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Original screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi on board for spinoff of 1990 film dramatising the life of mobster-informant Henry Hill ❋ Unknown (2010)
