artistic license
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Simms is one of the characters with whom Beletsky took artistic license — some of her testimony was given by other former slaves since she was gone from Mudd’s home by 1865.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Christopher Nolan’s movie mixes diligent research with artistic license.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
I mean, you could do a biopic about somebody who lived a hundred years ago, but they're not around, so I'm sure you have a lot of artistic license to do whatever you want.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2023
The excessive artistic license taken with the adaptation is part of the fun of it, said Desmond Thorne, a film programmer at Nitehawk.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Many have seemed to suppose that the massive and undraped head shown in these pictures was the result of artistic license or indolence and a general desire to evade the task of making hair.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
