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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
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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
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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
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Times staff writer Josh Rottenberg contributed to this report.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
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Matt Donnelly is senior entertainment and media writer for Variety.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
1 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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