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Dramatize   /drˈɑmətˌaɪz/  /drˈæmətˌaɪz/   Listen
Dramatize

verb
(past & past part. dramatized; pres. part. dramatizing)
1.
Put into dramatic form.  Synonyms: adopt, dramatise.
2.
Represent something in a dramatic manner.  Synonym: dramatise.
3.
Add details to.  Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad.



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"Dramatize" Quotes from Famous Books



... the teachers is the joy felt by the children in being allowed to dramatize the stories. This, too, appeals very strongly to me, but there is a means of satisfying their desire and yet protecting the dramatic whole, and that is occasionally to allow children to act out their own dramatic inventions; this, to my mind, has great educational significance: ...
— The Art of the Story-Teller • Marie L. Shedlock

... at her 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 critics, who reviewed the volume with ...
— Notes on My Books • Joseph Conrad

... to do this we tend to personalize quantities, and to dramatize relations. As some sort of allegory, except in acutely sophisticated minds, the affairs of the world are represented. Social Movements, Economic Forces, National Interests, Public Opinion are treated as persons, or persons like the Pope, ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... he should have retained the most primitive form of the oratorio, that of the passion-music. The poem has no genuinely dramatic course; there was not the smallest intrinsic or extrinsic reason to dramatize it more fully. Even with treatment such as that of the 'Walpurgisnacht,' it must have lost much of its picturesque development The only proper way to treat the subject, therefore, was to retain the original epic form, ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton

... fanciful objection to a pictorial book like Vanity Fair, where the point of view is not accounted for, is proved, I think, by the different means that a novelist will adopt to authenticate his story—to dramatize the seeing eye, as I should prefer to put it. These I shall try to deal with in what seems to be their logical order; illuminating examples of any of them are not wanting. I do not suggest that if I were criticizing Vanity Fair I should think twice about this aspect of it; to ...
— The Craft of Fiction • Percy Lubbock


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