theatricalize

Example Sentences

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Instead of trying to theatricalize its story through finding playable action, The Inheritance tries to solve the problem of adapting a literary work through emphasizing its literariness.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2019

Unlike in, say, “Stuffed,” in which the comedian Lisa Lampanelli looked at her body issues, there are no attempts to theatricalize the production.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2018

And he was so funny that I did not have to theatricalize my laughter.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

Why theatricalize a work that achieves its excellence through the short story virtues of modesty, compression and understatement?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2015

There are some realities you cannot theatricalize when you translate the reality to lingua franca, which is what English is for the movies.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2012