scenarist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scenarist
First recorded in 1915–20; scenar(io) + -ist
Example Sentences
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For all of Sorrentino’s prodigious gifts as a scenarist, “Loro” is a disturbing movie, for all the wrong reasons and, despite its self-consciously arty pretensions, a breathtakingly callow one.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
“The predilection of the director, producer and scenarist for the unusual in mood, background music and characterization makes this chase more confusing than suspenseful,” a film critic for The New York Times wrote in 1946.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2016
The forty-eight-year-old black American playwright Tracey Scott Wilson is the real thing—a real scenarist with an ear and a solid sense of how to tell a story.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
The gentleman was David Drew, once a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, now a scenarist.
From The Guardian ● May 4, 2013
How much is a masterly synthesis of all the author has learned as a fiction writer, scenarist and journalist?
From Time Magazine Archive
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