How to Use dramaturgy in a Sentence

dramaturgy

noun
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  • Here, the adroitness of the dramaturgy comes into play.
    — Nicholas M. Gallagher, National Review, 23 Nov. 2019
  • But its loudest voice is still the creaking of its dramaturgy.
    — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
  • Yet the styles of this movie, too, leave strong traces in memory that reach beyond the boundaries of its dramaturgy.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
  • There’s not a lot of research or dramaturgy that goes into something like this.
    — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The machinery of the dramaturgy clanks and clunks here, but this is where everyone gets their Big Monologue, and the actors rise to the occasion.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Context is a kind of variation on and development of the dramaturgy of the film Blockade.
    — Vulture, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Along with provocation, a fair amount of frustration is built into the dramaturgy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The music is colorful in the manner of Tchaikovsky (who was Rubinstein’s student), but the opera’s dramaturgy is awkward.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • Director Peter Kazaras made room for both styles, embracing the opera’s tell-more-than-show dramaturgy, moving from tableau to tableau.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Everything about it, the dramaturgy, the stenography, the facial expressions, all of it.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
  • During one pause in the proceedings, amid talk of blocking and dramaturgy, Paul offers the actress a suggestion.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
  • Sure enough, there’s nothing fancy about the down-to-earth dramaturgy of Ms. Hall’s kitchen-sink chronicles of family life in all its varied aspects.
    — WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Playing a key role in the production Gresham has been deeply involved in the play’s dramaturgy and collaborated on the script with Kauffman.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But his style is informed by a pop-cultural zaniness that is integral to the dramaturgy.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Shakespearean dramaturgy is a dance between macro and micro realms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • His degree is not in performing, it’s in dramaturgy and directing.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The Requiem has a kind of operatic dramaturgy that all goes together.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • There’s no time for the specifics of political satire: the show’s dramaturgy is just one long wheeeee from its rollercoaster start to its sudden, operatic finish.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Dimensions of Chekhov's dramaturgy are abridged or missing.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • This is daring dramaturgy, requiring the utmost in tonal control to keep it from tipping into righteous bathos.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • This is daring dramaturgy, requiring the utmost in tonal control to keep it from tipping into righteous bathos.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • In neither role does McDonald have the support of ordinary dramaturgy.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • But this hall-of-mirrors meta-dramaturgy never descends into airy artifice.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Aggregate will workshop the plays in Grants Pass, Ore., but all of the initial development and dramaturgy will be done via Zoom and streaming applications, so artists from all over the country can participate.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • Barbey and Peter also shaped it through the black-and-white camerawork of Nikolaï von Graevenitz, who sublimates the reality of the protagonist and the dramaturgy in very thoughtful and composed frames.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The dramaturgy would likely strike Euripides as fairly conventional, with the exception of Orest’s refusal, in the final scene, to follow the god Apollo’s orders.
    — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Uzma Hameed was credited for the dramaturgy, although little was offered in the way of information about who occupied what levels of hell the 13 sections represented.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
  • Mrs. Fong's gradual acceptance of the Resistance members living in her home provides a fine example of Hui's refined dramaturgy.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2017
  • Such is the dramaturgy of American public culture, of a performative public mind that is addicted to its sensations and categories.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • Gavin Witt [associate director/director of dramaturgy at Center Stage] started asking me about my writing, not my acting.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 20 May 2017

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