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He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.
The purpose of the composition is to allow complex dialogue scenes to be played out without changes in camera position.
* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.
The first part of Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál is a dialogue between Ægir and Bragi about the nature of poetry, particularly skaldic poetry.
Michael Giltz of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a " C -", feeling that " only hardcore fans will be satisfied by this tale " and saying that Jeter's " habit of echoing dialogue and scenes from the film is annoying and begs comparisons he would do well to avoid.
The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.
It is common to see films that feature dialogue with English words ( also known as Hinglish ), phrases, or even whole sentences.
( A fourth, Elihu the Buzite ( Heb: Alieua ben Barakal the Buzite ), begins talking in Chapter 32 and plays a significant role in the dialogue, but his arrival is not described ).
Job 3: 1-42: 6 is poetry that consists of a cycle of speeches between Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar and later Elihu, and then the dialogue between Yahweh and Job.
It is classified as a Menippean satire, a fusion of allegorical tale, platonic dialogue, and lyrical poetry.
However, the plot is generally less important than its witty dialogue.
Another logician, Gongsun Long, told the famous When a White Horse is Not a Horse dialogue.
In the Timaeus, Plato's major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid he associated with fire was the tetrahedron which is formed from four triangles and contains the least volume with the greatest surface area.
In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with air is the octahedron which is formed from eight equilateral triangles.
In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed from twenty equilateral triangles.
Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.
Rhyming slang is used, then described and a number of examples suggested as part of dialogue in one scene of the 1967 film To Sir With Love starring Sidney Poitier.
Her other major work is The Dialogue of Divine Providence, a dialogue between a soul who " rises up " to God and God himself, and recorded between 1377 and 1378 by members of her circle.
She enters into a dialogue, a movement between question and answer, with these allegorical figures that is from a completely female perspective.
In one dialogue, Rabelais speaks of coprophagia as a Christian gesture, saying that monks swallow the shit of the world, that is the sins, and for this they are ostracized by society.
HyperScope is perceived as the first step of a process designed to engage a wider community in a dialogue, on development of collaborative software and services, based on Engelbart's goals and research.

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In many of Capra's films, the wise-cracking and sharp dialogue was often written by Riskin, and he and Capra went on to become Hollywood's " most admired writer-director team.
Bogart's sharp timing and facial expressions as private detective Sam Spade were praised by the cast and director as vital to the quick action and rapid-fire dialogue.
Science fiction editors John Clute and Peter Nichols offer a largely favorable appraisal of King, noting his " pungent prose, sharp ear for dialogue, disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciation of human stupidity and cruelty ( especially to children ) of which rank him among the more distinguished ' popular ' writers.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said " While the surface of his film sparkles with sharp, ironic dialogue, deeper issues are forming, and Chasing Amy develops into a film of touching insights.
Alma became his collaborator and sounding board, with a keen ear for dialogue and an editor's sharp eye for scrutinising a film's final version for continuity flaws so minor they escaped Hitchcock's own notice and that of his crew.
The novel is laced with sharp dialogue and explicit sex encounters in line with counterculture of 1970's. The Underlying theme of the novel is clash of generations as of values.
The show, with a mix of mystery, sharp dialogue, and sexual tension between its two leads, introduced Bruce Willis to the world and brought Cybill Shepherd back into the spotlight after a nearly decade-long absence.
" CNN praised Kidman's " astounding range " and applauded the dialogue as " often sharp, scathingly witty, and displays a wry intelligence.
Nevertheless, his sharp, authentic descriptions of the hunting field have retained their popularity among fox-hunters ... Among a wider public his mordant observations on men, women, and manners ; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues ; his skill in the construction of lively dialogue ( a matter over which he took great pains ); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases ; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him successive generations of devoted followers.
While some reviews noted flaws in characterisation and heavy expository dialogue, a common theme echoed by many reviewers centered on the sharp descriptive writing, mood, and large-scale ideas featured in the book.
An example of the sharp contrast between Dinger and Rother was evidenced by such tracks as " Crazy ", Rother's attempt at pop, and "' 86 Commercial Trash ", a Dingerian collage of dialogue and sound effects from Germany's television commercials of that year.
" Kay McFadden of The Seattle Times wrote that the episode is " certainly not on a par with that all-time doppelganger classic, " Treehouse of Horror VII ", [...] still, No. 9's dialogue is sharp and there's reassuring continuity to such beloved institutions as Itchy and Scratchy.
According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very " feline " in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks.
In 2008, Empire placed The Simpsons at the top of their list of " The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ", and noted " King-Size Homer " as the show's best episode, calling it " An unimprovable mix of sharp dialogue, hilarious sight gags and heart.
In a review of the DVD release, Scott Tobias, while critical of the screenplay, described the drama's noir style, writing, " Lifted note-for-note from the Hemingway story, the classic opening scene of Siodmak's film sings with the high tension, sharp dialogue, and grim humor that's conspicuously absent from the rest of Anthony Veiller's mediocre screenplay.
The novels are also well liked for the laconic style, sharp cutting dialogue, and dry humor.
Film critic Blake Lucas says the film " impresses first of all with its sharp dialogue exchanges between the characters and the bizarre look of the interiors " referring to the at once modern and rustic road house.

dialogue and witty
Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
It involves some elements of classical tragedy —" noble " characters and the audience's knowledge of Thomasina's impending death — but the predominant element is comedy, in the way that the characters interact with each other and their witty, epigrammatic dialogue.
Andrew Sarris in the New York Observer wrote, " the main incentive to see this movie is its witty, pungent and idiomatic dialogue, such as you never hear on the screen anymore in this age of special-effects illiteracy ".
Critics have praised the film's witty dialogue, written by Tedd Pierce, such as Hazel's question to Bugs-in-costume: " Tell me, who undoes your hair?
If the dialogue is witty, if the characters are convincingly funny or sad, if there is the right bittersweet nostalgia and the sense that someone is likely to burst into " Those Were the Days ," then it doesn't matter that we've seen the formula before.
Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.
The dialogue is intelligent and frequently witty.
That style of writing included a slick, satirical, and witty humor, which depended almost totally on dialogue to carry the film.
The critical consensus is " Blending top notch animation with rousing adventure, witty dialogue, and memorable characters, A Bug's Life is another Pixar winner.
The Howdy show's non-televised rehearsals were renowned for including considerable double-entendre dialogue between the cast members ( particularly the witty Dayton Allen ) and the puppet characters.
Never Say Never Again was broadly welcomed and praised by the critics: Ian Christie, writing in the Daily Express, said that Never Say Never Again was " one of the better Bonds ", finding the film " superbly witty and entertaining,the dialogue is crisp and the fight scenes imaginative.
But as witty as his title cards had been, Walker was less adept at writing the spoken dialogue required by talkies.
" Alan Sepinwall in The Star-Ledger calls it a " magnificently daring episode ", explaining "( w ) hat makes it particularly brave is that, even when Buffy has been failing to click dramatically this year, the show has still been able to get by on the witty dialogue, which is all but absent after the first few scenes.
Many of the books exhibit his own personally crafted techniques-such as the " ball and plane " method of head drawing-guided by Loomis's witty and humorous dialogue.
The plot of the comedy, often concerned with scandal, is generally less important than its witty dialogue.
With its patrician setting, witty dialogue, and development of a romantic plot between two clever and committed idealists across class lines, Sabrina Fair has much in common with Philip Barry's comedy Holiday.
Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz of The Star-Ledger were complimentary towards " Grace, Replaced ", writing that the episode " is a winner, packed with witty dialogue.
The play is delivered through quick, witty Victorian-era dialogue, mixed with double entendres and vernacular expressions, to explore the relationship between the two women and their maid.
Known for his witty dialogue and assortment of creative banter, Harlan can be heard exclaiming: " Buckle up for ..." ( when any NBA player is about to slam dunk the ball ) and " Right between the eyes!
" Holliday is " brilliantly droll ," and the script " a compound of clever situation and broad but authentic character, wrapped up in free splurged emotions and witty, idiomatic dialogue.
The plot is as ingenious as ever, the writing more careful, the dialogue both wise and witty ; while suspense is engendered from the very start, and maintained skilfully until the final revelation: it will be a clever reader indeed who anticipates this, and though Miss Christie is as usual scrupulously fair in scattering her clues, close attention to the text is necessary if a correct solution of the mystery is to be arrived at before the astute Miss Marple unmasks the culprit.

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