How to Use dramatist in a Sentence

dramatist

noun
  • 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
  • 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 creative juices of Athens' dramatists didn't dry up under the constraints they were held to.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • Shakespeare’s untutored mingling of fools and kings seemed odd, so dramatists often rewrote his texts.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Townsend, not Swanson, is the master dramatist of Booth’s crime and escape.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Knowing when to end a play is a crucial (and underrated) aspect of the dramatist’s art.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • It was adapted for the stage by a different topflight British dramatist, Lee Hall.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • All in all, Verdi’s second thoughts as a musical dramatist were seldom wrong.
    — Matthew Gurewitsch, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Jenkins was an accomplished dramatist who wrote for TV, radio and film.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Shawn is one of our more conspicuously literary dramatists, in that the language tends prose-y in his plays.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • Carreira has a docu-realistic eye for setting and a dramatist’s instinct for pacing and mood.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Carreira has a docu-realistic eye for setting and a dramatist’s instinct for pacing and mood.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The creation of the dramatist is complete only with the addition of an audience.
    — David Mamet, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Oscar-winning literary genius, and one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
    — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Even James Baldwin was stymied as a dramatist by such cultural gatekeeping.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • Like David, Audubon was a dramatist at heart, and an abiding quality of his bird paintings is their vivid sense of theater.
    — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • As a dramatist, Baker wants the audience to become aware of its own habits of attention and inattention.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • The dramatist’s mode is broader and brasher, calculated for the sweep of the stage rather than the close-up, with splashes of color and humor that can verge on camp.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
  • While Twain’s need for the spotlight drove his ambitions as a self-dramatist, his keen sense of theater rested at the heart of his literary genius, too.
    — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
  • Hammerstein is much more of a musical dramatist, and Hart is much more of a lyrical craftsman or a lyrical comedian.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.
    — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
  • By this measure, Terrence McNally is one of the most important dramatists of the last 50 years.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • 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

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