dramatize
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And I think it was interesting to try and find levels to it and to have the audience come with you, but not dramatize or exaggerate an emotion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
As Frederica observes, the “intrinsic problem in writing about artists” is how to dramatize the “battle with the colors and forms.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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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