11.   It was a costume drama, the rationalization goes, and Moore is a contemporary star who is out of place in period pieces.

12.   It is, for one thing, a costume drama in its own right.

13.   More often, the movie founders when confronting spiritual issues and settles for the spectacle of a costume drama.

14.   Otherwise, the Richard Attenborough film might simply have been a ponderous historical costume drama.

15.   Porn movies come not only in all sexual flavors but also in all genres, from period costume dramas to sci-fi to comedy.

16.   Several of those films were sweeping costume dramas that introduced foreign audiences to Australia and its complex history.

17.   Sometimes, these refractions of recent history seem overly willed, like black-and-white newsreel footage inserted into a Hollywood costume drama.

18.   Take Simmons, for example, a man who is without question larger than life, above derision, a master illusionist in the costume drama of Hollywood.

19.   That would have been in the days of old-fashioned costume drama.

20.   The cliche goes that Tiepolo is a chilly, frivolous painter of opulent spectacles and costume dramas.