How to Use psychodrama in a Sentence

psychodrama

noun

• Some of this psychodrama works; some of it works too hard.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• But this strange psychodrama has yet to run its course.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 20 Nov. 2020
• A 75 year-old recluse tries to keep others out of her home in Saskia Rifkin's psychodrama.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
• The film has been designed as a bad-trip psychodrama that’s also a high-camp Nicolas Cage freak-out.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2024
• In the case of the stimulus wars, the inter-party psychodrama, which has dragged on for months, has left the public hanging out to dry.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020
• Todd Field’s psychodrama about a renowned conductor played by Cate Blanchett has already won a slew of awards and topped any number of year-end lists.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2022
• The man who has shouldered the hopes of a country for more than 15 years knows that a national psychodrama is always just one defeat away.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
• Is the entire country to be at the mercy of the psychodrama of an imploding ruling party?
  — Natasha Khullar Relph, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2022
• But as a psychodrama about a troubled mother and daughter, this movie is gripping from start to finish.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Jensen’s script has turned the early years of Mary Shelley’s life into a pure psychodrama determined by events.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• In the psychodrama O’Keefe has created for himself, all means and methods are justified because the fate of the nation hangs in the balance.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2018
• Scott stars as a grieving man who takes work/life balance to the extreme in this sleek psychodrama from exec producer Ben Stiller.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2022
• Tension mounts throughout in this bare-bones psychodrama.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Across nearly four minutes, the pair work through an upper-class psychodrama worthy of a Jane Austen story line, nameless servants and all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• Argentina, for all the psychodrama that has followed it at this World Cup, is second in that category, controlling the ball for 67% of its games.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Rowe’s spare but effective approach has echoes — in the deep extended pliés, the slow-motion silent scream, and the engine of psychodrama — of Swedish choreographer Mats Ek.
  — Mary Ellen Hunt, SFChronicle.com, 9 June 2018
• But the real interest of this book lies not in its colorful tittle-tattle but in its richness as psychodrama.
  — Brooke Allen, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Such is the case in October, as a Peruvian master resurfaces for the first time in seven years with a strange, hypnotic psychodrama in only the loosest terms.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2021
• So the money pouring into and out of the campaign to spare Alabama another Roy Moore psychodrama could be prodigious.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Aug. 2017
• And, for anyone wanting more of this unholy psychodrama, consider the list of characters.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• In fact, college football (which has its own problems, no doubt) somehow manages to exist without the catch-no catch psychodrama, even though the rules are basically the same.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2018
• Croatia was galvanized and Spain exposed at the back as the fragile team of the group phase, but despite the Simon psychodrama the Spanish did respond well, flooding forward.
  — Samindra Kunti, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Kanye West’s recent few releases staged psychodramas about monogamy and aging.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
• To say that Lars von Trier’s haunting psychodrama casts Dunst against type would be an understatement.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
• The album is a lot to take in, but the depth of emotion, musical ingenuity, and the psychodrama that Chris pours into each track makes the hefty time commitment a worthwhile sonic journey.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
• A heavy dose of Donald Trump each sunrise and at least the potential of domestic-inspired psychodrama before our breakfasts.
  — The Hive, 5 May 2017
• While Biden’s team will surely make mistakes along the way, it is poised to be refreshingly competent, free of psychodrama and even perhaps a little boring.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 25 Nov. 2020
• Malkovich’s character, a fan of Marilyn Manson and friend of Meghan Markle who is caught up in the banal psychodrama of trying to please his parents, embodies that insight as well.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2020
• Then there is all the other baggage—the constant psychodrama between her supporters and her critics—which was on full display this week and will continue to divide the party.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 2 June 2017
• The show quickly set itself apart by capitalizing on its mystery to format as a thrilling psychodrama.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024