How to Use psychodrama in a Sentence

psychodrama

noun
Definition of psychodramanext
Synonyms for psychodramanext
  • Some of this psychodrama works; some of it works too hard.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But this strange psychodrama has yet to run its course.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • A 75 year-old recluse tries to keep others out of her home in Saskia Rifkin's psychodrama.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
  • In the case of the stimulus wars, the inter-party psychodrama, which has dragged on for months, has left the public hanging out to dry.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Todd Field’s psychodrama about a renowned conductor played by Cate Blanchett has already won a slew of awards and topped any number of year-end lists.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The man who has shouldered the hopes of a country for more than 15 years knows that a national psychodrama is always just one defeat away.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Is the entire country to be at the mercy of the psychodrama of an imploding ruling party?
    — Natasha Khullar Relph, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But as a psychodrama about a troubled mother and daughter, this movie is gripping from start to finish.
    — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Jensen’s script has turned the early years of Mary Shelley’s life into a pure psychodrama determined by events.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • In the psychodrama O’Keefe has created for himself, all means and methods are justified because the fate of the nation hangs in the balance.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Scott stars as a grieving man who takes work/life balance to the extreme in this sleek psychodrama from exec producer Ben Stiller.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Tension mounts throughout in this bare-bones psychodrama.
    — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Across nearly four minutes, the pair work through an upper-class psychodrama worthy of a Jane Austen story line, nameless servants and all.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Argentina, for all the psychodrama that has followed it at this World Cup, is second in that category, controlling the ball for 67% of its games.
    — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Rowe’s spare but effective approach has echoes — in the deep extended pliés, the slow-motion silent scream, and the engine of psychodrama — of Swedish choreographer Mats Ek.
    — Mary Ellen Hunt, SFChronicle.com, 9 June 2018
  • But the real interest of this book lies not in its colorful tittle-tattle but in its richness as psychodrama.
    — Brooke Allen, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Such is the case in October, as a Peruvian master resurfaces for the first time in seven years with a strange, hypnotic psychodrama in only the loosest terms.
    — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2021
  • So the money pouring into and out of the campaign to spare Alabama another Roy Moore psychodrama could be prodigious.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Aug. 2017
  • And, for anyone wanting more of this unholy psychodrama, consider the list of characters.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • In fact, college football (which has its own problems, no doubt) somehow manages to exist without the catch-no catch psychodrama, even though the rules are basically the same.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Croatia was galvanized and Spain exposed at the back as the fragile team of the group phase, but despite the Simon psychodrama the Spanish did respond well, flooding forward.
    — Samindra Kunti, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Kanye West’s recent few releases staged psychodramas about monogamy and aging.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
  • The album is a lot to take in, but the depth of emotion, musical ingenuity, and the psychodrama that Chris pours into each track makes the hefty time commitment a worthwhile sonic journey.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • A heavy dose of Donald Trump each sunrise and at least the potential of domestic-inspired psychodrama before our breakfasts.
    — The Hive, 5 May 2017
  • While Biden’s team will surely make mistakes along the way, it is poised to be refreshingly competent, free of psychodrama and even perhaps a little boring.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Malkovich’s character, a fan of Marilyn Manson and friend of Meghan Markle who is caught up in the banal psychodrama of trying to please his parents, embodies that insight as well.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Then there is all the other baggage—the constant psychodrama between her supporters and her critics—which was on full display this week and will continue to divide the party.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 2 June 2017
  • The show quickly set itself apart by capitalizing on its mystery to format as a thrilling psychodrama.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2022
  • More than three years after its initial release, the masochistic psychodrama that is Hades still has the gaming community in a kinky stranglehold — so much so that Netflix is getting in on the action.
    — Vulture, 11 Nov. 2023
  • And every moment of relatable human psychodrama is met with two more over-the-top superhero comic book melodrama.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023

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