How to Use dramaturgy in a Sentence

dramaturgy

noun
  • But its loudest voice is still the creaking of its dramaturgy.
    — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • There’s not a lot of research or dramaturgy that goes into something like this.
    — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That scene is filled with all the dramaturgy of everything before it.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 July 2024
  • The dialogue and the dramaturgy, in contrast, strain for jokes and over-ladle the pathos.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Yet the styles of this movie, too, leave strong traces in memory that reach beyond the boundaries of its dramaturgy.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Krithika has been refining the work through dramaturgy.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The dramaturgy can get a little clunky, and the hair and makeup won’t be winning any Oscars.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Film dramaturgy, on the other hand, strives for a kind of purity and clarity.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Shakespearean dramaturgy is a dance between macro and micro realms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Along with provocation, a fair amount of frustration is built into the dramaturgy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But his style is informed by a pop-cultural zaniness that is integral to the dramaturgy.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But this hall-of-mirrors meta-dramaturgy never descends into airy artifice.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2023
  • This is daring dramaturgy, requiring the utmost in tonal control to keep it from tipping into righteous bathos.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • This is daring dramaturgy, requiring the utmost in tonal control to keep it from tipping into righteous bathos.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Context is a kind of variation on and development of the dramaturgy of the film Blockade.
    — Vulture, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Often, the Bard’s plays are shoehorned into a new time and place with little regard for coherent dramaturgy.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The Requiem has a kind of operatic dramaturgy that all goes together.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Everything about it, the dramaturgy, the stenography, the facial expressions, all of it.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
  • During one pause in the proceedings, amid talk of blocking and dramaturgy, Paul offers the actress a suggestion.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
  • Director Peter Kazaras made room for both styles, embracing the opera’s tell-more-than-show dramaturgy, moving from tableau to tableau.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Marta Kauffman, after making the first episode of Friends with Jimmy, said the eye-opener for her was his skill at dramaturgy.
    — Warren Littlefield, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2026
  • Amy also helped us with a lot of dramaturgy around Stacy Clausen’s embodiment of this entity or monster.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • In neither role does McDonald have the support of ordinary dramaturgy.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The machinery of the dramaturgy clanks and clunks here, but this is where everyone gets their Big Monologue, and the actors rise to the occasion.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The music is colorful in the manner of Tchaikovsky (who was Rubinstein’s student), but the opera’s dramaturgy is awkward.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • Playing a key role in the production Gresham has been deeply involved in the play’s dramaturgy and collaborated on the script with Kauffman.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The dramaturgy was meticulously developed with a focus on the transformation arc of the characters.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Adams was instrumental in the development of both plays, working closely with the writers to formulate how the dramaturgy would be conceived in three dimensions.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Such is the dramaturgy of American public culture, of a performative public mind that is addicted to its sensations and categories.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • In the new film, Hamaguchi boldly stands cinematic dramaturgy on its head, starting the film with an extended sequence of images that don’t tell much of a story and keep the audience guessing.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023

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