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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
Noun
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She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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Hamilton was married to poet and playwright Frank Jenkins (Driving While Black in Beverly Hills) from 1964 until his death in 2014.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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Instead the line was conceived after the script writers, Al Reinert and Bill Broyles, interviewed Kranz at his home Texas, south of Johnson Space Center.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
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Alexandra Koch is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
29 June 2025
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Films are written by screenwriters who are not the directors.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
18 June 2025
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After hitting theaters in the U.K. in November 2002 then making its way across the pond the following June, Boyle’s culture-shifting collaboration with screenwriter Alex Garland caught on like a contagion, earning more than $80 million worldwide against a reported budget of $8 million.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
16 June 2025
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Louise Silverio, scriptwriter, and Anne Raffin, art director and director, are leading development.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 June 2025
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The award-winning actor remains the only artist in Golden Horse Awards history to have collected trophies for best actress, best scriptwriter and best director.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 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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“Dramatist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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