Mr. Booth later translated the highly visual body language of silent films and vaudeville into cartoon images with dramatic punch.

In the words of the critic Jasper Sharp: "Bold, beautiful, and packing a powerful dramatic punch, there is little else quite like it."

Often sophomoric - and in need of a good edit - "Mount Morgan" fails to land an impressive dramatic punch.

In Housewife . . . the dramatic punches are not merely telegraphed, but radioed.

"Tell me," she said, "did you arrange that whole business so you'd have a dramatic punch for the close of the trial?"

But the narratives of dominance and submission they depict are fraught with violence and deliver a slow-dawning dramatic punch.

The sound was eminently musical yet with enough dramatic punch to keep movie buffs happy.

"The dramatic punch of such an intensely intimate story depends almost wholly upon the utter condor of its re-creation," wrote a reviewer.

But it just didn't have the same dramatic punch.

She looks for stories with dramatic punch, emotional stories that are perhaps a bit out of the ordinary.