How to Use dramatist in a Sentence

dramatist

noun
  • And yet dramatists are born to write about kings and queens.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Géricault had the heart of a dramatist, and was as schooled in the costs of war as in its splendors.
    M.j. Andersen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2018
  • The creative juices of Athens' dramatists didn't dry up under the constraints they were held to.
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • It was adapted for the stage by a different topflight British dramatist, Lee Hall.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Morgan has built his career as a dramatist on the royals.
    Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • From then on, Mozart belonged as much to the dramatist and the poet as to the musicologist.
    Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
  • As a dramatist, when there’s a massive amount of smoke, there’s probably fire.
    Bruce Fretts, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • The dramatist packs in so many curveballs that some are inevitably going to be wild pitches.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The play is rife with references to dramatist and playwright Chekov, but one needn't know a thing about the Russian genius.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 June 2017
  • First up is the 45-minute The Artist, which takes place entirely in the fields of the kind of serene country estate where Chekhov the dramatist so frequently plied his trade.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Mr. Gurney became one of the most prolific dramatists of his time, with more than 50 plays to his credit.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 15 June 2017
  • Knowing when to end a play is a crucial (and underrated) aspect of the dramatist’s art.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • One of his idols, Sean O’Casey, a great Irish dramatist, advised him to stop wasting his time with autographs and write something of his own.
    A.a.k. | Mumbai, The Economist, 12 June 2019
  • By this measure, Terrence McNally is one of the most important dramatists of the last 50 years.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • Shakespeare’s power as a dramatist is at its zenith when actors find their characters in the rhythm and meaning of their lines.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The creation of the dramatist is complete only with the addition of an audience.
    David Mamet, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Charlie is presented as a dramatist who makes use of his and Nicole’s private life in his own work; the implications are nowhere in the movie.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
  • What money can’t buy, however, is where Coogler’s skills as a moment-by-moment dramatist come in.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • What money can't buy, however, is where Coogler's skills as a moment-by-moment dramatist come in.
    Michael Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Jenkins was an accomplished dramatist who wrote for TV, radio and film.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In a courtyard nearby, another of the theatre’s most famous dramatists, Lao She, was taunted and abused by a group of Red Guards, and later found dead.
    Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Shakespeare’s untutored mingling of fools and kings seemed odd, so dramatists often rewrote his texts.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2019
  • All in all, Verdi’s second thoughts as a musical dramatist were seldom wrong.
    Matthew Gurewitsch, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • It’s the seduction by Proctor, ostensibly the play’s hero, of young Abigail that animates the dramatist’s plot.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Named after the late Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer, the Ivor Novello awards have been presented since 1956.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Enter Musk the dramatist, the playwright, the conductor, the chief programming officer.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
  • This leaves a major problem for a dramatist: There is an interesting story here, but there is not a dramatic one.
    Jesse Oxfeld, Town & Country, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Even James Baldwin was stymied as a dramatist by such cultural gatekeeping.
    New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • The ecosystem of the O’Neill, a 55-year-old nonprofit organization named for one of the nation’s greatest dramatists, is designed to nurture a brainchild of this sort.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • But Reimann is too sensitive a dramatist to write exclusively at one extreme.
    Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2019

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