1.   Does not the divine drama seem to suggest that the Devil is calling the tune?

2.   Casual observers will be forgiven if the CBS drama seems like all of those things.

3.   For all the pregnant pauses and awkward silences, the drama seems at once trivial and pretentious.

4.   For him that drama seems to have begun smoothly enough.

5.   Rather than getting tired and weary after almost a dozen years, the ripped-from-the-headlines drama seems to be getting stronger.

6.   Secret dramas seem to be acted out, and the performers give the impression that they are on momentous journeys.

7.   The drama still seems strange and bruising, and it has again provided the occasion for an uncommonly powerful and imaginative performance in the title role.

8.   The similarity extends to the curiously remote quality that makes the drama seem portentous even as the scenery delights the eye.

9.   Western opera and Japanese Noh drama might seem to be incompatible.

10.   With Clinton, the drama seems of a less momentous order.