scenarist

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Recent Examples of scenarist The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split). Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022 McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend. Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021 Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars. Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarist
Noun
  • The likes of Maxton Hall scriptwriter Julia Dehne, Smallville showrunner Kelly Souders and Banijay Entertainment co-fiction chief Johannes Jensen are in town for Seriencamp.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • The growing awareness of feminism in the '70s spurred Houlihan's transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit's influence on the scriptwriters.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • Adapted from the novel by Jordan Harper by screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the crime thriller involves a man (Egerton), newly released from prison, attempting to protect his daughter (Heger) from the violent gang who is now after them both.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • Erotic Lives Of The Superheroes (France) written and produced by Eric Dupont, accompanied by screenwriters Nadya Todorova and Ruddy-Williams Kabuiku.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The 8th annual New Works Festival gets things started from Oct. 9 to 13, and offers audiences the ability to see fresh stagings by playwrights in need of early reactions to help develop and hone their writing.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
  • The playwrights essentially used the moral panic over evolution at the heart of the play to stand in for the contemporary moral panic over communism.
    Time, Time, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Every writer, artist, and editor here feels that way.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • Despite their current confidence in the group, one NFL writer pointed to Dallas' decision to allow Rico Dowdle to walk in free agency as a move that contributes to what could be viewed as a mediocre offseason.
    Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Other small but apt touches include a Polaroid camera, a Clueless board game, and fuzzy pens, layered.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 July 2025
  • In a home office, stock pens, scissors, and notepads for easy accessibility during work.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 9 July 2025

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“Scenarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenarist. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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