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Because these stories have to dramatize a search for normalcy, its leads tend to be awkward in ways that strain credulity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

These dramatize Günter’s contentious but rewarding tutelage under Freud and his erratic marriage to one of Freud’s patients, a Jewish woman named Josine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Lighting design by Manuel Da Silva, the group’s production manager, provided pools and shafts of illumination to dramatize the darkened stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

“I write about things that have happened, and I, in a way, dramatize them by putting music to it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

“We Communists don’t dramatize Negro nationalism,” he said in a voice that laughed, accused, and drawled.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Ms. Kingsolver dramatizes it by way of a village recital, turning to music to evoke the feelings that straightforward exposition would heavy-handedly summarize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

That shaving scene referenced earlier dramatizes why this and other supposedly neutral policies painfully disfavor some people without diving into a medical manual.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025

A play about the burning and bulldozing of homes on Indigenous land in Palm Springs dramatizes the lives of those who found sanctuary there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

She was dropped by her publisher and resigned from several boards she served on after “When They See Us,” which dramatizes the events surrounding the trial, debuted.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

It dramatizes sound with unique artistic rhythm and design.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Such poetic license offers little new insight into a topic that has already been picked over for two decades, but it might be forgiven were Hansen as easily dramatized as he is made fun of.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The long, arduous path to freedom for a man on death row is dramatized in “The Fear of 13,” a modestly affecting but plodding documentary-based play first seen at London’s prestigious Donmar Warehouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Melies ended up as a toy seller in Paris’ Gare Montparnasse train station -- a story that was dramatized in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film, "Hugo."

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

But in 2026, everything can be dramatized until we’re numb to the truth of what we’re seeing.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

It dramatized three situations that, we were told, had actually occurred in the past two years.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The costly behind-the-scenes chaos illustrates the risks in dramatizing the life of a controversial real person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

It is a work of theater, dramatizing feelings, as the earlier Disney staging attempted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Cristina Rivera Garza’s “Autobiography of Cotton” begins by dramatizing a 1934 agricultural strike in northern Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Why was it important to you to tell this story as a documentary versus dramatizing it?

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024

As we walk the rest of the way home from school we take turns reading them out loud, dramatizing the parts like radio plays, pausing to shriek with laughter.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood