heroic drama
Americannoun
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With $50,000 raised among donors, the Harrison Gray Otis Memorial Assn. hired Troubetzkoy, who conceived of the deceased man’s life as a heroic drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
It’s a comparatively light heroic drama that focuses as much on Spider-Man’s crush on a classmate as it does on his superhero battles.
From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2017
The play is a kind of twilit allegory, a heroic drama that beats its swords into similes a work whose verbal abundance begets theatrical poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the play lacks the simple intensity of heroic drama; it shares its villain's love of tricks, and is too full of jagged effects to produce a sustained emotion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever was most wild in the wildest of the Elizabethan plays—the involved plots, the extravagant incidents, the swelling metaphors and similes—all this reappears in the heroic drama.
From English literary criticism by Various
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