dramatize
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And I think it was interesting to try and find levels to it and to have the audience come with you, but not dramatize or exaggerate an emotion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Lighting design by Manuel Da Silva, the group’s production manager, provided pools and shafts of illumination to dramatize the darkened stage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
“We had to dramatize this thing that everybody’s been so afraid of, which is dragon-on-dragon war,” said showrunner Ryan Condal, who wrote the episode.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025
Sophocles’ “Antigone” and Euripides’ “Suppliant Women” dramatize tensions between personal morality, state power and democratic rights.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025
There is a moment just before the Communion when members of the congregation shake hands to dramatize a union.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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