How to Use documentarian in a Sentence
documentarian
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So how did a documentarian wind up in the genre space en route to Five Nights at Freddy’s?
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Also in the mix: Jesse Williams as the documentarian who has been making a movie about Ben.
— Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023 -
But Tara clearly knew how to rise above his role as a mere documentarian of court life.
— Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021 -
Part of the prize is a meetup with renowned documentarian Ken Burns.
— Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024 -
No one comes out of this story clean, not even the documentarian.
— Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 11 June 2018 -
If so, maybe this is a sign that Kevin's ex-girlfriend Zoe (who worked as a documentarian) will come back into his life.
— Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 19 Feb. 2020 -
The notice placed by documentarian Carol Morley was just a tiny box in the middle of the page, easy to miss, dwarfed by the ads that surrounded it.
— Hazlitt, 3 May 2023 -
Mack then brought in documentarian Megan Langshore to film the process.
— Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023 -
The documentarian takes it for granted that even those who don’t know that words sometimes have two meanings are aware of how Zep’s doors had all closed.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2021 -
There’s a lot to see and to think about here, all well-curated by a documentarian with a clear passion for his subject.
— Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020 -
The stakes are high for the documentarian, who decided to stay in the country after the insurgents seized the city in August 2021.
— Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023 -
So, how does a documentarian wind up making a film like this?
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2019 -
Gil loves Milt, but the aging star isn’t always kind to his young documentarian.
— Julie Kliegman, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019 -
What does that mean for you as a public history documentarian to go back to this kind of material and to get a chance to retell it again?
— Theodore Gonzalves, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2020 -
The Zoo documentarian Chris Moukarbel over the past year.
— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2017 -
If Neville could slip in a deepfake, what else could documentarians do that wasn’t truthful?
— Addie Morfoot, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023 -
French documentarian Alice Diop is a good pupil — not a great one, but a studious grade-grubber who knows how to make her teachers swoon.
— Armond White, National Review, 20 Jan. 2023 -
Quested, a documentarian who was following the Proud Boys, captured the buildup to the riot and its first moments.
— Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022 -
Davis has worked as a documentarian and photographer at the New York Times since 2012.
— Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020 -
Over the past handful of years, Thom Zimny has emerged as one of the most prolific music documentarians around.
— Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023 -
Later, her work as a documentarian took her all over the world, with her children often tagging along.
— WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023 -
Ross was one of the founders of Chicago Filmmakers and a documentarian with his own distinctive style.
— Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 7 Feb. 2018 -
At the same time, when the documentarians observe that everyone who ever met him fell in love with him, his response was modest.
— Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2018 -
Bahrani has learned that sometimes the greatest tool for a documentarian is silence.
— Wilson Chapman, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022 -
He was featured in an episode with a nature documentarian from Lubbock and a grocery store owner in Maud.
— Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023 -
When the film begins, Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) is living a placid life as a documentarian.
— Daniel D'addario, Time, 22 May 2018 -
He and his wife, Yissel Ibarra, a film producer and documentarian, know their way around the restaurant scene.
— Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017 -
According to Roberts, the drone was owned by another documentarian who asked for his help in finding it.
— Don Reisinger, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2018 -
Even as the speech continues, becoming plainly positive in its praise for the documentarian’s body of work, Catherine remains ambiguous.
— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024 -
The film features a rare acting performance from legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who lends his voice as a radio announcer during the film’s opening scene.
— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024
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