dramatist

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for dramatist
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Noun
  • Over the ensuing decades, Giard photographed writers working across many genres—playwrights, poets, novelists, theorists, memoirists, critics, even cookbook authors.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
  • Five years later, playwright and producer Vanessa Lynn filed a lawsuit against TPS, accusing the mogul of idea theft over his TV series The Have and Have Nots.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Alexandra Koch is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Brooks and Bancroft had one son together, Max, now a screenwriter himself.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • With Villeneuve onboard, the search is now underway for a screenwriter, and eventually, the next famous face brave enough to accept the mission of playing the suave super spy.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The likes of Maxton Hall scriptwriter Julia Dehne, Smallville showrunner Kelly Souders and Banijay Entertainment co-fiction chief Johannes Jensen are in town for Seriencamp.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • 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.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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