dramaturgic

variants or dramaturgical

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramaturgic
Adjective
  • Just before the game, the franchise honored him with a video tribute, and Dončić became emotional.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • It wasn’t scripted that Robby gets emotional and breaks down at [that] particular point in the speech….
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Every actor’s Hamlet is theirs and theirs alone, and Olivier’s is big and hammy and searing and often quite devastating.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • More emotional scenes, however, feel hammy and didactic, heavy on the telling over the showing (and that telling hinges on being damn blunt about the whole thing, to boot).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Theirs sits on the ground, just bare bulbs screwed into the ends of copper piping strung with wires, powering through a wondrous cycle of dimming and illumination, conjuring electricity’s arrival to the Marble Palace long ago.
    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • China’s theatrical box office has staged a strong recovery this year from a severe downturn in 2024, when total ticket revenue declined 23 percent.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The films will have limited theatrical engagements before receiving video-on-demand and physical media releases.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Embracing different cultures: There is plenty of wonderful Mexican culture depicted throughout the film, from cooking traditional dishes to the vibrant atmosphere.
    Alex Vance, Parents, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Cherish these moments and know that your efforts to preserve their voices are a wonderful tribute to your relationships.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Less sensational, but devastating on an individual level, is the prospect of AI replacing us in our jobs – a prospect leaving most people obsolete and with no future.
    Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Max Verstappen followed up his sensational qualifying performance with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix to close the gap on championship leader Lando Norris to one point.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The tools offer exciting new clues to how people living in the area thousands of years ago may have lived and interacted.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Outside of Matthews’ single shot, the most exciting chance the line created was an out-of-character clapper from Marner off the rush that was more of a novelty than a high-danger look.
    Nick Ashbourne, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Cannes has been known to pull off the odd spectacular stunt too.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Lewandowski didn’t touch the ball in any of these moves, and at times some of his movement isn’t particularly spectacular.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Dramaturgic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramaturgic. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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