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Synonyms for dramatize

adapt for the stage

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  • adapt for the stage
  • turn into a play
  • present as a play
  • put into dramatic form

exaggerate

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Synonyms for dramatize

to produce on the stage

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Synonyms for dramatize

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Cline's purpose in this series is to dramatize America's founding:
Realistic cases dramatize two levels of business disaster.
Moreover, like Venus, Bacchus knows how to use gesture as pressure for psychological effect, as wh en he tearfully dramatizes himself as a much-suffering victim (6.34) who will nevertheless heroically stand up against the mandates of fate and fortune (6.33).
Memorials to those killed under the dystopic banner of Manifest Destiny are thus congruent to the one for our first President, and the maquette dramatizes the irony of this similarity.
Draper again dramatizes the risks so many urban YAs face in the already difficult coming-of-age process....
Winner of wore than one award for best picture of 1999, the Victorian-era musical dramatizes not only the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan's colorful The Mikado but also the age-old conflict between art and commerce.
Their design dramatizes the views, and literally heightens the sense of being 'in nature', while also affording a panorama of the city.
The book closes with an extended consideration of how The Duchess of Malfi dramatizes Protestant theories of conscience that embody a rhetoric of witnessing.
The second evening Dondoro will appear by firelight on the Pillow grounds in a ritual dance entitled Keshin, which dramatizes a libidinous encounter between the spirit of the mountains, who is disguised as a fox, and a woman.
Tillim, who grew up in a South Africa still under apartheid, dramatizes the grotesque failure of colonialism, whose patronizing pretext of a "civilizing mission" is personified in one image by a nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture of a maternal figure, half-Athena, half-Mary, coddling an awed black child.
A study of military action in the Romagna dramatizes the nature of Italian military ineptitude (Cecil Clough); an examination of the trumpeted legend of Francesco II Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, and his role leading the Italian forces at Fornovo debunks this so-called "Liberator of Italy" (David Chambers); and Ferrarese diplomatic correspondence reconstructs Italy's influence on the political thought and literary efforts behind Philippe de Commynes Memoires (Joel Blanchard).
But another of LeWitt's apothegms, "Any idea that is better stated in two dimensions should not be in three dimensions," does not apply to Mancuska's artwork and suggests a measure of his achievement: The sculptural presence of True Story dramatizes the oft-overlooked physical aspect of the activity of reading and stages a memorable confrontation between the two-dimensionality of words and the three-dimensionality of lived experience.