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Recent Examples of dramatist
As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
Noun
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Heart, humor, and hurt combine in the playwright's (played by Andrew Barth Feldman) real-life tale of growing up caught in the crossfire between his traumatized mother (Jeanine Serralles) and eccentric/alcoholic grandmother (a sublime Joanna Gleason).—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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With offices in New York, London, Los Angeles and Austin, ILP works closely with book authors, playwrights, lyricists and composers, along with their representatives, heirs and estate managers.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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Jasmine is a writer at Fox News Digital and a military spouse based in New Orleans.—
Jasmine Baehr,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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There had been a ton of conversations, and then became about setting the tent poles for the season for the writers.—
Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Mar. 2025
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Oliver Stone, as the screenwriter of the Miami-set feature, is credited for writing the line.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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One of the buzziest screenwriters of 2024 is now giving back to the indie filmmaking community.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
24 Mar. 2025
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Wei, who had a career in the U.S. as host, scriptwriter and producer, is being hailed as a major new literary talent, so there will be plenty of interest at Olympia next week.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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This might involve hiring a videographer for professional footage, an editor for post-production, researchers and a scriptwriter to create concepts and tighten messaging.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2022
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.—
Geoffrey O’Brien,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Apr. 2019
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