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If body-horror auteur David Cronenberg had dramatized any of the nightmarish stories in Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s medical documentary “The Bleeding Edge,” you wouldn’t hesitate to call it a fright film.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2018

Kubrick had dramatized the command-control system that actually existed—a war that could actually happen.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2017

With fewer than 300 words, the President had dramatized the sincerity of the U.S. and of himself, and had challenged the Russians to match it.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man without pose or side, he was incapable of dramatizing an issue as Franklin Roosevelt had dramatized "The Forgotten Man," or William Jennings Bryan his "Cross of Gold."

From Time Magazine Archive

Later, Archie had to concede that Brother Leon had dramatized the sale too vividly and therefore put himself and The Vigils and the entire school on the spot.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier