Dramatic
Dramatic adjective - Having the general quality or effect of a stage performance.
Usage example: the basketball player's dramatic announcement of his sudden retirement held everybody spellbound
Ordinary
Ordinary adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.
Both words in one sentence
- Barats and Bereta are quite fond of this trope and have turned ordinary things like children's games, the Neighborhood Watch Committee, April Fools' Day, and taking shots into unbelievably awesome things using dramatic music, dramatic lighting, and Narm.
- Seiei's neighbor is an Ordinary High-School Student named Saji Crossroads, who gets caught in the war in a VERY dramatic fashion.
Source: Living with the Villain - And we're not talking your ordinary, run of the mill snare drum roll: We're talking Dramatic Timpani, here.
Source: Drum Roll, Please
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