dramatizing

Individual stories CAN be instructive, and they certainly can have impact in dramatizing a situation, but they are hardly useful as representative snapshots of an entire nation or economy, which is how you seem to want to use them.

Think Progress » Number of millionaires in America increased 16 percent in 2009. 2010

I disliked the movie version - echoing Judith, the book was much more effective in dramatizing the race between a wounded Frodo and his enemies, climaxing at the Fords.

Arwen's ride 2008

"How is it possible that in dramatizing the anecdotes and vignettes presented in Schlosser's damning and highly entertaining book, and with the advantage of a very solid cast, including Greg Kinnear, Patricia Arquette and Bobby Cannavale, what results is essentially another lecture - and a fairly banal one at that?" asks Michelle Orange at the Reeler.

GreenCine Daily: Interview. Eric Schlosser. 2006

If the movies often fell short of greatness, Lumet seemed fine settling for very goodness in the name of dramatizing some larger problem.

Boston.com Top Stories 2011

But in dramatizing the way "a traumatized mind might put its broken pieces back together again," McCarthy is not "" exploring "his character's thoughts or attempting to track those thoughts in its" stream. "

Point of View in Fiction 2009

It was a hint from Rousseau that suggested to Schiller, during his last year in the academy, the idea of dramatizing this episode of Genoese history.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

It was a hint from Rousseau that suggested to Schiller, during his last year in the academy, the idea of dramatizing this episode of Genoese history.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

With this view they conceived the idea of dramatizing certain scenes in the life of Christ, and having them represented in the churches.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

The Beast told Haydon that if Kathy left the house, it wouldn't be "dramatizing," so it's not just Boobiac dropping malapropisms now.

Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : (Mala)Props to the Houseguests. 2010

The Beast told Haydon that if Kathy left the house, it wouldn't be "dramatizing," so it's not just Boobiac dropping malapropisms now.

Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: (Mala)Props to the Houseguests. 2010