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Recent Examples of scenarist
Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.
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Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
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
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Miles Beller, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
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
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarist
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But then, just as the scriptwriters were smelling another famous European night in Liverpool, Mariani was sent to the monitors by the VAR.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Suzuki Tsutomu, who served as both scriptwriter and producer, spoke to Variety about why Nippon TV moved early on AI, what happened when the technology surprised the production itself, and how the broadcaster is thinking about the model’s commercial future.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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As a director and screenwriter, Spiro’s debut feature film Night Comes On premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Sundance Innovator Award and the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 May 2026
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Ansari will be hosted in Paris by Franco-Chilean screenwriter Antonia Girardi.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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Walk in the footsteps of famous Irish authors and playwrights at Dunguaire Castle.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
22 May 2026
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Lane is survived by his brothers Michael Lane, a former casting director, and playwright and author Eric Lane; sister Lisa Lane Crawley; their spouses, Meredith Wechter Lane, Bob Barnett and John Crawley; six nephews and one niece.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
22 May 2026
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The late New Yorker writer Donald Barthleme, an absurdist, is often cited as an example.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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And yet every day writers call me from conference rooms at their day jobs, or cramped kitchens with their children, or cars sitting in their driveways—sometimes the only place quiet enough to think.—
David O’Neill,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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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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Video shows a woman walking down the street when a man suddenly attacked her from behind and stabbed her with a pen.—
Steven Yablonski,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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Prime lips for a perfectly smooth, even application using the 3-in-1 Lip Scrub pen, which gently scrubs away dead skin with super-fine sugar granules and keeps lips hydrated with nourishing shea butter and algae.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
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