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Dramatize   Listen
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Dramatize  v. t.  (past & past part. dramatized; pres. part. dramatizing)  To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. "They dramatized tyranny for public execration."






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"Dramatize" Quotes from Famous Books



... the procession was to dramatize in numbers and beauty the fact that women wanted to vote that women were asking the Administration in power in the national government to speed the day. What politicians had not been able to get through their minds we would give them through ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

... understanding and appreciation of it. If it is a story, they may reproduce it in their own words orally or in writing. They may sketch a scene or a situation with pencil, or with brush and colours. They may dramatize it, or act it in pantomime. They may create a story with a similar theme, or imitate a poem by a creation of their own. The expression may not be immediate but may be delayed for days or even years, and come in some modification of ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education

... we see the growing impulse towards graphic music. A "dramatic symphony" is not promising. For, if music is the most subjective expression of the arts, why should its highest form be used to dramatize a drama? Without the aid of scene and actors, that were needed by the original poet, the artisan in absolute tones attempts his own theatric rendering. Clearly this symphony is one of those works of art which within an incongruous form (like certain ancient pictures) ...
— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp

... tell people a ghost is a fake," Rick explained. "It's another to dramatize it. I'm working on an idea that may do it, but only if we keep quiet and make our ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... particular turn given to a certain conversation, even the mere emergence into consciousness of a previously latent feeling or thought, may mark quite definitely the moment of germination, so to speak, of a given crisis; and it is comparatively easy to dramatize such a moment. But how few crises come to a definite or dramatic conclusion! Nine times out of ten they end in some petty compromise, or do not end at all, but simply subside, like the waves of the sea when the storm ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer

... home, in a hat with a big feather. "To-morrow" appeared first in the Pall Mall Magazine. Of that story I will only say that it struck many people by its adaptability to the stage and that I was induced to dramatize it under the title of "One Day More"; up to the present my only effort in that direction. I may also add that each of the four stories on their appearance in book form was picked out on various grounds as the "best of the lot" by different ...
— Typhoon • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Dramatize" :   magnify, glorify, hyperbolise, lard, amplify, embroider, exaggerate, overdramatise, dramatise, overdraw, pen, aggrandise, overstate, represent, writing, hyperbolize, aggrandize, write, indite, overdramatize, penning, pad, compose



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