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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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As previously mentioned, Brewer, best known for her roles on Orange Is the New Black (2013) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present), plays Bronte, a playwright who works for Joe at his bookstore.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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He is survived by his wife, the playwright Paula Fourie, and three children.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
10 Mar. 2025
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Matt previously spent several years covering Palace matches for the South London Press and contributing to other publications as a freelance writer.—
Matt Woosnam,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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The fest’s jury will feature two-time Palme d’Or winner Bille August along with director and screenwriter Cristina Comencini (Don’t Tell, When the Night) and multi award-winning director/writer Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers).—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2025
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Which is why the director and screenwriter of Black Bag have devised an easy one-stop-shop solution for the couple at the center of their espionage thriller.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
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One of the men in the background of the episode’s opening scenes, for example, is Jerry Stahl, the novelist and screenwriter whose 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight became a movie in 1998 starring Severance boss Ben Stiller.—
Zoe G. Phillips,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 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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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
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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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“Dramatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatist. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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