noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an art/music/drama college
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The Music College was founded in 1869.
costume drama
kitchen sink drama
Restoration comedy/drama (= plays written during this time in England )
the drama unfold
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He had watched the drama unfold from a nearby ship.
writers’/drama/music etc workshop
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They held a number of music workshops and seminars.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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His band are reedy and twiddly; to work, Almond's stuff needs a huge orchestra capable of great drama .
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They observe with great sensitivity the dramas , rhythms, and presence of place.
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Luongo's life is full of incident but no great drama .
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On the other hand, I had a great drama teacher in high school.
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It could have been great drama .
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But it is great drama , which both entertains and instructs.
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D.S. One of the great things about drama school is what you learn to reject as much as what you actually learn.
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There are more powers than chance and pure mechanism, underlying this great cosmic drama .
high
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But Merseyside and Manchester both proved last week that it is possible to concoct high drama without substituting motivation for mutilation.
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The high drama at the Fed involves its decisions on interest rates and the money supply.
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They refused to yield against awkward opponents, on a difficult pitch, in a match of high drama and controversial incidents.
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Any high drama that remains is found deep in technical working party country.
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The problem is even more severe with the natural world, where the ratio of observable high drama is much lower.
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St Kilda never does things by halves: the whole setting is one of high drama .
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But now, along with high drama , diners at Checkers can enjoy a lighter menu.
human
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The Simpson verdict, by contrast, was a human drama involving the most famous defendant of the century.
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These are the human dramas behind the organizational buzzwords.
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But these flourishes never distract from the droll human dramas that Wong has so astutely and amusingly worked out.
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Anger is an essential part of the human drama .
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But all feelings are part of the human drama .
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This lets your child know that feelings of loss and emptiness are part of the human drama .
little
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This little drama - and other scenes like it - is played out method-acting style almost every day in this particular household.
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However, this little drama was never performed.
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Jeffries was constructing a little drama in which I was the emblematic white critic.
new
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I have joined a new drama club - Open Stage we're performing Bugsy Malone soon!
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Accordingly, he formulated a new conception of drama to suit his own inclinations.
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To others-fans of new drama , most critics-the play is a glimpse of hell.
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It took a new generation of drama advisers to attempt to bring it back again.
political
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The lack of political drama did not seem to matter to most voters Saturday.
powerful
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The final death scene is superbly realized, conveying powerful drama with no posturing.
romantic
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As a result, the romantic dramas of Friends-Ross and Rachel, Monica and Chandler-were tantalisingly paradoxical.
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Here too, the comedia lacrimosa announced what was to become prevalent in Romantic drama .
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This element of mystery will also be characteristic of Romantic drama .
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The ideas and techniques it set forth provided the initial stimulus for Romantic drama .
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In its subordination of character to plot, sentimental comedy moves in the direction of Romantic drama .
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The play is also an excellent precursor for Romantic drama .
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Practically all moralizing is absent from Romantic drama .
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As Romantic drama evolves, the pariah soon becomes the most compelling of characters.
whole
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But one key figure in this whole drama has remained silent - Prince Charles.
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What does a whole group drama look like?
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So how, in whole group drama , do we build commitment to the work and engagement in the issues?
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This strategy of setting up interactive and interdependent small groups is effectively what is happening in whole group drama .
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True, it was the most upsetting, conflict-inducing scene in the whole drama .
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How wrong could I be? Whole group drama in fact offers individuals great opportunities for personal decision making.
■ NOUN
costume
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Nothing could be further from costume drama or the spreading of cloaks over puddles.
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More often, the movie founders when confronting spiritual issues and settles for the spectacle of a costume drama .
courtroom
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There are a lot of courtroom drama books and serial killer tales about, but this one is special.
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Her stories of courtroom drama had a strong effect.
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If he had his way this would be a five-hour courtroom drama with Sonny playing himself in the role.
group
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I have joined a drama group called Open stage we are performing Bugsy Malone in August it's great fun!
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Read in studio A school drama group tonight launches one of the most ambitious amateur productions ever staged.
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Recently I joined a drama group - I may have said.
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Oxford's student societies have become world famous, especially the drama group and the Oxford Union.
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I have recently joined a drama group called Open Stage!
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My drama group people may be rather dim, but they're generous.
radio
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He starred in many television and radio dramas , including Middlemarch, in which he played Bulstrode.
school
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A.R. You both went into the theatre together from the same drama school ?
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Dropouts from drama school who had learned just enough about theatricality to make a nuisance of themselves.
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People had seen me in my drama school finals.
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It was assumed that many who appeared on the box had been to drama school .
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Above all you need new audience experience now you are out of drama school .
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For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing.
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A.R. You didn't do that exercise in drama school ?
series
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Why not settle in, raise your little girl, sign up for the concert and drama series .
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Franz won the Emmy as best actor in a drama series for the 1993-1994 season, not Caruso.
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But none of them carries a show, and there are no drama series and few movies that feature predominantly black casts.
teacher
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Now it is how Dorothy Heathcote sees the relationship between the two that sets her apart from most drama teachers .
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On the other hand, I had a great drama teacher in high school.
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There were all sorts of practical problems which Nigel Barnes, the drama teacher faced.
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You don't need a vast repertoire of games in order to be a highly effective drama teacher .
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Nigel Barnes, the drama teacher , also joined the project.
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But he writes: The number of drama teachers in schools has grown rapidly for years.
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The pupils responded magnificently under the direction of drama teacher Mike Quinn, with outstanding performances from all the cast.
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Many drama teachers have devised their own versions of this method.
television
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And to what extent does television drama supply it?
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Most television drama attracts some mail from interested viewers but rarely does that mail arrive by the sackful.
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They are especially prevalent in some feature films, television dramas and documentaries.
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It's featured in television dramas such as Taggart and Prime Suspect 2.
■ VERB
play
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Many other men and organisations had reason to be proud of the parts they had played in the drama .
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As they played out the drama , however.
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In this, Ken played a drama instructor caught up in the then current controversy over corporal punishment.
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He plays out elaborate dramas , and his parents view him as enormously creative.
watch
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He had watched the drama unfold from a support vessel.
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With a beady eye he watches the drama of the market place.
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By ten the next morning, some twenty thousand people were on hand to watch the drama unfold.
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All of which meant that Sanchez watched the subsequent drama unfold from a television monitor.
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Marie had watched many hospital dramas on television.
write
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Five years later, Jimmy McGovern wrote a drama about these events and their aftermath.
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And did she really write drama criticism for the News?
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Other seminars concentrated on media skills such as poster-making, writing , drama , audio cassette production and the use of newsletters.
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He also wrote Biblical dramas which display a deep love of nature.
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Aristotle wrote about it in relation to drama and what we can gain by going to the theatre.
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Gundulic also wrote dramas , masques and pastorals.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high drama/adventure
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The movie is full of grandeur and high adventure.
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Any high drama that remains is found deep in technical working party country.
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But Merseyside and Manchester both proved last week that it is possible to concoct high drama without substituting motivation for mutilation.
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But now, along with high drama, diners at Checkers can enjoy a lighter menu.
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But what a chance for high adventure!
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The high drama at the Fed involves its decisions on interest rates and the money supply.
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The problem is even more severe with the natural world, where the ratio of observable high drama is much lower.
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They refused to yield against awkward opponents, on a difficult pitch, in a match of high drama and controversial incidents.
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Thus ended an episode of high drama, the excitement of which tends to distort its significance.
pile it on/pile on the drama
violent film/play/drama
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He thought of hitting Guy, saw himself doing it, like some violent film, slow-motion.
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His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play.
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They have a violent film then they have a violent advert.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a drama student
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He studied English and Drama at Manchester University.
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I was never much good at drama when I was a kid - probably because I was very shy.
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Jeb graduated from drama school in 1997.
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The drama of this year's World Series helped boost the network's ratings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At once her own drama was engulfed in the tumult of Hyacinth's entry into a woman's estate.
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Audiences like to see fires; fires kill, and when people are killed there is drama .
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Both dramas have finished their runs for the season and, for lack of ratings, might not be back next year.
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Carol Smith has pointed to the importance of this book for the primitive ritual elements in Eliot's drama .
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Eliot stressed that there should be no maintaining of different attitudes for cathedral drama and for West End theatre.
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IfJoyce seemed mortified now, Lois suspected it was drama .
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The jury for drama handed out a pair of special prizes.
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These, exemplified from drama , are the subject of the sixth chapter.