theatricalize

Example Sentences

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Instead of trying to theatricalize its story through finding playable action, The Inheritance tries to solve the problem of adapting a literary work through emphasizing its literariness.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2019

Though all were powerful, they faced a common difficulty: How to theatricalize in one gesture both individual devastation and collective disaster.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2018

I did everything I could to theatricalize him in the extreme.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2016

Why theatricalize a work that achieves its excellence through the short story virtues of modesty, compression and understatement?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2015

“It presents itself as almost the impossible task: to theatricalize a sprawling and unruly wilderness,” said Joe Tantalo, who is directing.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014