How to Use psychodrama in a Sentence

psychodrama

noun
  • Early loves his creation, enough to spin an entire psychodrama around her, one that will bring her high and low.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • But on a night on which psychodrama only ever felt one mistake away, the mood just about held throughout.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kanye West’s recent few releases staged psychodramas about monogamy and aging.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
  • 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
  • This being Neymar, there were also fallouts and psychodramas.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The show quickly set itself apart by capitalizing on its mystery to format as a thrilling psychodrama.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Part adult-film fever dream, part technicolor psychodrama, these cult favorites have ‘wtf’ written all over them, in the best way possible.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • 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
  • And, for anyone wanting more of this unholy psychodrama, consider the list of characters.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The Astors’ three-generation psychodrama made for a juicier book.
    — Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The results are equal parts marital crisis, sins-of-the-father psychodrama and visceral body horror.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Worse, that unchallenging, jokey tone undercuts the intriguing psychodrama at the play’s core.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • To say that Lars von Trier’s haunting psychodrama casts Dunst against type would be an understatement.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Hall balances the Gibson family psychodrama with portraits of Yara’s childhood friends.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
  • 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
  • The Tories, as they are known, had descended into a political psychodrama that had delivered four leaders in as many years.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 12 May 2026
  • Two thousand years of Buddhist folk tradition were drawn into the service of one European man’s psychodrama.
    — Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Jane Campion’s masterly psychodrama is a story of repression, something Rose knows a thing or two about.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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