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Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.
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Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
—Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.
—Matt Wolf, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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British screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne, best known for Adolescence and His Dark Materials, has been elected president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB).—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
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The White Lotus star first crossed paths with the Pulitzer-winning playwright while working on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—
Avalon Hester,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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When her studio head boss asks her to fire her head writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) to appease a toxic male movie star, Vance decides to walk away, and does it in on air.—
Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
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In honor of national wellness week, a beauty writer shares how learning to set boundaries took his self-care and wellness practices to new heights.—
Larry Stansbury,
Essence,
19 Sep. 2025
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For British screenwriter David Farr, signing the pledge is personal.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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In a new video with Insightec, the Oscar-winning screenwriter, 76, opened up about struggling for years with essential tremor, which left him unable to do simple tasks without shaking, such as holding a cup or writing by hand.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 Sep. 2025
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The scriptwriter is Marek Epstein.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2022
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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