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Recent Examples of scenarist
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
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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
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
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
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarist
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That means dads and uncles, teachers and political leaders, Hollywood scriptwriters and podcast hosts—all could stand to get in on the game.—
Matthew Schnipper,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Karen is a talented scriptwriter who will bring the story to life on screen.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
29 Nov. 2024
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Lionsgate announced the biopic in February 2022, at which time the estate already signed off and Logan was already attached as screenwriter with King as a co-producer.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2025
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With Ashton directly involved in the creative process and Bong Joon-ho adapting the book himself as the sole screenwriter, expectations are high for this one, which seems to be an expert mix of accessible adventure and black comedy.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Movies are the great compensatory art, the creative redemption for people who are novelists, poets, musicians, playwrights, painters, photographers, or even philosophers at heart but not in practice—or those who have artistic souls but no preferred art form at all.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Signing on for privacy Related Articles Saratoga Symphony makes ‘Impressions’ with free concert Pianist/playwright breaks his own box office record at TheatreWorks Milpitas residents started the new year with a new tool to protect their privacy and property rights.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2025
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The Sacramento Bee 916-321-1363 Jason Anderson is The Sacramento Bee’s Kings beat writer.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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There was a recent kerfuffle online as a bunch of creatives shot down a report that Netflix has writers write overly descriptive dialogue in case viewers are watching something passively (e.g. folding laundry, checking email).—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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Even his name, not to mention his author photo, had an aura of toughness more suggestive of a prizefighter than a litterateur.—
Geoffrey O’Brien,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Apr. 2019
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In a statement, Adams spokesman Fabien Levy didn’t say whether the mayor will let the bill become law or use his veto pen to try to block it.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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The president, during his first term, also used Sharpies to sign official documents and make notes and even had the stationary company design a custom pen, embossed with his signature in gold, for him, according to The New York Times and Business Insider.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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