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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dramatise.

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Examples

  • The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a moneyspinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war

    Listal promoted 2010

  • Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis feels the protracted transfer of Andrei Arshavin has been overly "dramatised".

    Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie 2009

  • Her staged or "dramatised" version of this deeply loved and still widely familiar work opens at English National Opera on Nov 27, conducted by Laurence Cummings.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a moneyspinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a moneyspinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a moneyspinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • The first comic I ever wrote for a US publisher was a kind of dramatised biography of Ozzy Osbourne for Malibu’s Rock-It comics division.

    Art of the rewrite 2007

  • The intellectual and cultural milieu of the Scholls is evoked through scenes of theatre within theatre in which Dostoevsky and Goethe are dramatised as part of their discussions of political morality.

    I predict a riot 2011

  • He commanded a lead platoon in the first drop at Arnhem, the Netherlands, as part of Operation Market Garden (a failed allied attempt to seize strategic bridges across the Rhine dramatised in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, in which Cleminson was played by Michael Graham Cox).

    Sir James Cleminson obituary Martin Adeney 2010

  • The most acclaimed attempt was 2004 film Downfall, which dramatised the Führer's last days in his claustrophobic Berlin bunker.

    Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum Kate Connolly in Berlin 2010

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