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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
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
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
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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In 2024, Miranda collaborated with fellow playwright Eisa Davis on the musical project Warriors, a concept album themed after the 1979 film The Warriors.—
Katie Labovitz,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Closely | Opinion The celebrated Lebanese composer and playwright Ziad Rahbani, son of the iconic singer Fairuz, died suddenly on July 26.—
Alia Brahimi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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Our theme this year was the enemy within for the writers’ room.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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When work evokes an involuntary emotional response, that is this writer's threshold for the definition of Art.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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The screenwriters, Gabriel Dalla Torre and Lucia Bracelis, along with producers Cecilia Agüero and Gisela Levin, aim to create a narrative that blends dark humor and tension.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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Clarke, screenwriter on the blockbuster film 2001: A Space Odyssey, has been given a new incarnation as ArthurGPT, an uncanny double who can sketch out captivating space scenarios and predict a spectrum of futures for explorers who lead the Earth’s evolution into a spacefaring civilization.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Six Days of the Condor author — whose book became the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor — has published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, and has also worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter for TV and film.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
16 July 2025
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The growing awareness of feminism in the ’70s spurred Houlihan’s transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit’s influence on the scriptwriters.—
Mark Kennedy,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 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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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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