How to Use dramatist in a Sentence

dramatist

noun

• And yet dramatists are born to write about kings and queens.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
• Géricault had the heart of a dramatist, and was as schooled in the costs of war as in its splendors.
  — M.j. Andersen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2018
• The creative juices of Athens' dramatists didn't dry up under the constraints they were held to.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• Townsend, not Swanson, is the master dramatist of Booth’s crime and escape.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• It was adapted for the stage by a different topflight British dramatist, Lee Hall.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Morgan has built his career as a dramatist on the royals.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
• From then on, Mozart belonged as much to the dramatist and the poet as to the musicologist.
  — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
• As a dramatist, when there’s a massive amount of smoke, there’s probably fire.
  — Bruce Fretts, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• The dramatist packs in so many curveballs that some are inevitably going to be wild pitches.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The play is rife with references to dramatist and playwright Chekov, but one needn't know a thing about the Russian genius.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 June 2017
• First up is the 45-minute The Artist, which takes place entirely in the fields of the kind of serene country estate where Chekhov the dramatist so frequently plied his trade.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Feb. 2020
• Mr. Gurney became one of the most prolific dramatists of his time, with more than 50 plays to his credit.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 15 June 2017
• Knowing when to end a play is a crucial (and underrated) aspect of the dramatist’s art.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• One of his idols, Sean O’Casey, a great Irish dramatist, advised him to stop wasting his time with autographs and write something of his own.
  — A.a.k. | Mumbai, The Economist, 12 June 2019
• By this measure, Terrence McNally is one of the most important dramatists of the last 50 years.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Like David, Audubon was a dramatist at heart, and an abiding quality of his bird paintings is their vivid sense of theater.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
• Shakespeare’s power as a dramatist is at its zenith when actors find their characters in the rhythm and meaning of their lines.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• The creation of the dramatist is complete only with the addition of an audience.
  — David Mamet, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Charlie is presented as a dramatist who makes use of his and Nicole’s private life in his own work; the implications are nowhere in the movie.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
• What money can't buy, however, is where Coogler's skills as a moment-by-moment dramatist come in.
  — Michael Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2018
• What money can’t buy, however, is where Coogler’s skills as a moment-by-moment dramatist come in.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Jenkins was an accomplished dramatist who wrote for TV, radio and film.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• In a courtyard nearby, another of the theatre’s most famous dramatists, Lao She, was taunted and abused by a group of Red Guards, and later found dead.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• Shakespeare’s untutored mingling of fools and kings seemed odd, so dramatists often rewrote his texts.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2019
• All in all, Verdi’s second thoughts as a musical dramatist were seldom wrong.
  — Matthew Gurewitsch, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• It’s the seduction by Proctor, ostensibly the play’s hero, of young Abigail that animates the dramatist’s plot.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• Named after the late Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer, the Ivor Novello awards have been presented since 1956.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
• Enter Musk the dramatist, the playwright, the conductor, the chief programming officer.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
• This leaves a major problem for a dramatist: There is an interesting story here, but there is not a dramatic one.
  — Jesse Oxfeld, Town & Country, 7 Apr. 2017
• Even James Baldwin was stymied as a dramatist by such cultural gatekeeping.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022

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