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
And he was so funny that I did not have to theatricalize my laughter.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015
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
