semi-dramatic

Which means there are lots of chances to play safely, but also lots of semi-dramatic moments when you have to make significant decisions about the odds, with everyone else looking on and giving you a hard time.

The Play Perplex Bruce Schauble 2007

Which means there are lots of chances to play safely, but also lots of semi-dramatic moments when you have to make significant decisions about the odds, with everyone else looking on and giving you a hard time.

Archive 2007-04-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

Later on he substituted for this several prolonged series of semi-dramatic public readings from his works, an effort which drew heavily on his vitality and shortened his life, but which intoxicated him with its enormous success.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

It is useless, and to my mind a little distasteful, to substitute for all this wonderful child activity the artificial symbolism of the kindergarten school in which children are taught to sing songs or go through certain semi-dramatic activities which savour too much of a performance acquired by precise instruction.

The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

We were disappointed in not seeing a "ceremony," but were told to come in the evening and witness a temple dance, and, I believe, also a semi-dramatic ceremony.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

He had a very good opinion of himself as a poet, and it is possible that he foresaw the importance of the new type of semi-dramatic entertainment which Handel was creating.

Handel Edward J. Dent 1916

Side by side with these semi-dramatic plays proceeded the attempts to follow more closely the ancient dramatic form in the school drama with its varied contents.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

It is semi-dramatic, and the three voices of the poem can be easily discovered.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

Apostrophe is made natural by the semi-dramatic quality of the situation.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

He employs the semi-dramatic form of easy dialogue throughout the book with extraordinary lightness and skill.

Latin Literature 1902