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Rather, he sought to entertain and educate readers who might buy his novels at Kmart without knowing anything about the era of American history he was dramatizing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

In many ways, Playmakers was dramatizing many of these things before they’d become widely known.

From The Verge • Feb. 10, 2022

Even though he was dramatizing a teenage experience unlike his own, Mr. Jacobs wanted to capture what he recalls as “the confusion of what’s up and what’s down.”

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2011

Prokofiev was dramatizing only a series of focal points in the story that all his audiences know.

From Time Magazine Archive

It turned out that his only son had just died and that he was dramatizing his soul-pain by means of his body.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.