physicalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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“Actors spend a lot of time by themselves, taking in lots of information and not actually being able to practicalize or physicalize what they’re doing,” she explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
“I want to write for the choreographer. I’m going to create scenarios that physicalize themselves in unique ways.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
One plausible explanation is that zombies physicalize our fear of mortality and decay.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2021
“As a dancer, it’s such an honor to physicalize the music, to represent the music that’s there,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2016
That was a big clue for me, how to physicalize him.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2011
“I think why it captured our imagination was the way it really physicalized this impossible balance of the show between whimsy and weight.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Cousins is very close to movie passion physicalized, and given an Irish accent.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
This physicalized version causes us to experience how deeply Blanche has been marked — down to her very bones.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2015
In the case of podcasts, the air literally thrums, our eardrums vibrate, and the cliché of the “human touch” is physicalized.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
Magnetism is the highest form of physicalized power in the universe.
From Supreme Personality by Delmer Eugene Croft
But the real magic is in the way James delivers those lines, along with physicalizing a kind of confidence learned from music videos and punctuating her sentences with careless laughter.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023
Craig is at his best in physicalizing Macbeth’s transitions; you can see in his bearing the effects of flattery and finery on his balloon personality.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Their hope is that by physicalizing these traumatic incidents, they can reinscribe their memories and dispel their power.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
For this program, the Graham company celebrates the work’s 75th anniversary, showcasing Graham’s skill at physicalizing both domestic drama and social tensions with stoic grandeur.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
Large screens dominated the stage, best used for email threads and social-media feeds, physicalizing the distracted mental state of being online.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
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