scenarist

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Recent Examples of scenarist The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 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 McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend. Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021 Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars. Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarist
Noun
  • Moonlighting frequently broke the fourth wall, with many of the episodes featuring the actors facing the cameras and making direct references to the audience, the scriptwriters, the network and the series itself.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Along with touch-ups, The Royal Tenenbaums star also disliked notes from studios and scriptwriters, usually rejecting them altogether in favor of his own acting instincts, Sonnenfeld said.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • House of Talkies is connected to Jain’s The Story Ink, which specializes in book-to-screen adaptations, represents over 500 stories, 200 authors, and 100 screenwriters.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film world—directors, screenwriters, actors, and, on occasion, critics—are brought together to manufacture the illusion of consensus.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to Othello, several other shows were in previews: Purpose, the new play from Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, began previews at the Helen Hayes, taking $300,892 for seven performances, filling 94% of seats.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
  • There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Matt Donnelly is senior entertainment and media writer for Variety.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Times staff writer Josh Rottenberg contributed to this report.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Many of the artists work with watercolors, like Proctor, who combines the medium with pen, and some artists create their images digitally.
    Jessie Schiewe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
  • That differs from single-dose autoinjector pens, the currently available form of all Zepbound doses, which patients can directly inject under their skin with the click of a button.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Scenarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenarist. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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