dramatize
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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
She bristles when she realizes some dentists are using AI images to upsell patients—deploying color-coded overlays to dramatize borderline findings and justify questionable treatments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Sophocles’ “Antigone” and Euripides’ “Suppliant Women” dramatize tensions between personal morality, state power and democratic rights.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
This sharply psychological work uses the two-character format to dramatize a dance of fractured identities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
“We Communists don’t dramatize Negro nationalism,” he said in a voice that laughed, accused, and drawled.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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The novel dramatizes the 1950s New York love affair between a newly arrived Jewish refugee, Ilka Weissnix, and a prominent black intellectual named Carter Bayoux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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
That spirit of fellowship prompted Taylor to join an experimental theater production that dramatizes the neighborhood’s distinct character and explores the complexities of its demise: “Displacement: Stories From Section 14.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
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Rick Cole, a former deputy mayor of L.A., said the DSA label for both candidates doesn’t mean they’ll adhere to the most dramatized versions of what DSA stands for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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
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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
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
To him, architecture has a role in resolving the complexities of culture, not necessarily dramatizing them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
It was useless to go on dramatizing her charms and talents for the benefit of these ridiculous knights—useless to go on hunting them with the tyrannous baits of what she thought was love.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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