proser

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Noun
  • Teller took to heart the classic Greek playwright Aristophanes’ myth of love — that humans were born as a fusion of two bodies and later separated as punishment from the gods, only to spend their lives looking — and longing — for their other half.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Stage directors and performers have attempted to excavate and animate that ambiguity, first dreamed up by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Hedda Gabler, for over a century.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over the years, the festival has expanded to include artists, musicians, storytellers, poets, and more, all focused on a theme relevant to the social, religious, and political needs of the Louisville community and beyond.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Chefitz was a mountain climber, soccer player, cross-country motorcyclist, flamenco guitarist, writer and poet — to name just some of his hobbies.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And while there’s stuff to celebrate here, like the return of original final girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), original screenwriter Kevin Williamson behind the camera, and some small town chills, much of this first look feels a bit been-there, done-that.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Colman’s The Favourite screenwriter Tony McNamara penned the script for the reimagining of the 1989 film The War of the Roses based on the novel by Warren Adler.
    Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pamir Güroğlu, chief growth officer & partner at Vitpepper Studios, and Erim Şişman, film director, scriptwriter, and director of AI Studio at Vitpepper, took to the MIP Creative Hub to premiere the trailer to the international market.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Robinson’s closest peer at the network is Nathan Fielder, a fellow bard of anxiety who deploys cringe with a masterful and unsparing hand.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • With Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet and now a Shakespeare-adjacent season of The Night Manager ahead, Petrie can’t help but think about the bard’s artistic impact on his career so far.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Soyinka, born on 13 July 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, is a renowned playwright, poet, essayist and public intellectual.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Having started his career as a film critic and essayist on YouTube, Stuckmann makes the transition to director with a horror movie that expertly blends media and feels at times like a mockumentary ripped right from the video platform.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Among VenApp users who support the government’s aims is a resident of a slum on the outskirts of Caracas who spoke anonymously, fearing government retaliation for speaking to a foreign journalist and retribution from neighbors who oppose Maduro.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang spoke to journalists during a trip to Beijing in July.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Proser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proser. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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