Mrs. Venables was not pleased with Betty, but the strikingness of the present occasion seemed to unite them.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
A drama, considered merely as a series of scenes bound together by a plot in a fit manner to be presented on the stage to move people, and based on rules that relate to economy of words, concentration of facts and strikingness of action, is a performance that has a technique of its own; the dramatist is a poet only by virtue of the ecstasy he puts in the work.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Between them they manufactured tickets by the dozen and by the score-tickets which, while possessing nearly all the smartness and finish of Mr. Chawner's tickets, were much superior to these in originality and strikingness.
"The Old Wives' Tale"
Arnold Bennett