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drama
noun as in theatrical piece; acting
Strong matches
Broadway, boards, climax, dramatization, dramaturgy, footlights, showmanship, stagecraft, theatricals, vehicle
Weak matches
dramatic art, histrionic art, show business, stage show, tear-jerker, thespian art
Example Sentences
But if the drama has drained the mood at the top, it did not kill the buzz on the floor.
College football’s annual rivalry weekend is never short of drama.
Domestic drama, with its psychological epiphanies and sentimental resolutions, repelled him.
But in the case of this maudlin, overwrought drama, “keep your eyes open” would be a more fitting demand.
“A nearly eight-hour drama about the Russian intelligentsia that received mixed reviews when it premiered in London in 2002, ‘The Coast of Utopia’ isn’t for the theatrical faint of heart,” cautioned Times critic McNulty.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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