prosaist

noun

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as in prosateur

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  1. poet
  2. playwright
  3. screenwriter
  4. scriptwriter
  5. dramatist
  6. essayist
  7. bard
  8. journalist
Noun
  • The poet, too, filled his darkness with a divine stream of words, and through these words a whole cosmos spun into view.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The exhibition’s title Sailing to Byzantium comes from a 1927 poem by William Butler Yeats, where the poet uses a sea voyage to Byzantium as a metaphor for a spiritual journey.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of poet
Noun
  • David Schweizer, a theater director who championed emerging playwrights and worked at Baltimore Center Stage, died of a heart attack Dec. 5 in New York City.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Project, which Dawson is producing, is adapted from award-winning playwright Edwin Sanchez’s show of the same name.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of playwright
Noun
  • Guests at Law's star ceremony included Zach Baylin and Justin Kurzel, the screenwriter and director behind his most recent movie The Order.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Still, the project offered a unique opportunity to reunite iconic talent with the franchise (hi, Jennifer Tilly!) and let the screenwriter reimagine his legendary character for an uninitiated, more progressive audience.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of screenwriter
Noun
  • Karen is a talented scriptwriter who will bring the story to life on screen.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
  • As in the production chain, giving space to the talent of women and pushing for their inclusion in front of and behind the camera — as scriptwriters, directors, and cinematographers — is a public service duty and a strategic choice.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of scriptwriter
Noun
  • 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
  • But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of dramatist
Noun
  • Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
    Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Definition of essayist
Noun
  • The endearing homecoming introduces new characters including Moni (Hualalai Chung), a passionate island bard; Loto (Rose Matafeo), a quirky shipwright; Kele (David Fane), a cantankerous farmer; and Simea (Khaleesi Lambert-Tsuda), Moana’s tenacious younger sister.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2024
  • According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
    David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of bard
Noun
  • Bashar Assad's fall after a lightning rebel offensive has allowed journalists for the first time to start searching in Syria for evidence of the captagon empire.
    Timour Azhari, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Sébastien Bourdon, a French journalist with Le Monde’s video investigations unit who authored a forthcoming book on that country’s far-right, says Active Clubs are the fastest-expanding facet of far-right militancy in France.
    Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of journalist
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