dramatize
Example Sentences
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Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.
The television creator knows how to pique viewers’ interest, often dramatizing notable people and events.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
