dramatize
Example Sentences
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This dramatized movie, however, seeks to retrieve something else: a spark of unignorable humanity from a media ecosystem of headlines and statistics that doesn’t always grasp how distancing it can be.
From Los Angeles Times
In “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” the streaming TV show’s executive producer, host and narrator does a dramatized dive into one saint’s life in each episode and tries to separate historical facts from myths.
An ordinary illustrator might have dramatized the scene at ground level; St. John literally elevates his image by having the conflict transpire in midair.
After his exchange for Rudolf Abel—dramatized in Steven Spielberg’s 2015 film Bridge of Spies—Francis Gary Powers was taken directly to a CIA safe house in rural Maryland and grilled for days on end.
From Literature
Scenes like this are tricky enough to pull off tastefully in dramatized films, but here, the sequence feels impossibly grievous.
From Salon
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