The other principal requisite for the attainment of the inner dramatic vitalness in drama is a pervasive atmospheric mood, a sustained Stimmung.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
I should think, meditated Page, taking the matter into serious consideration, that the vitalness of even that experience would depend somewhat on the character undergoing it.
"The Bent Twig"
Dorothy Canfield