artistic license
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“Is there artistic license? Sure. But the story comes through loud and clear — the atrocities that were committed and how society looked the other way. That is the key thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Christopher Nolan’s movie mixes diligent research with artistic license.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
But Shakespeare “could get away with” a little artistic license, Ms. Ceci laughed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 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 difference between the two hemispheres may be said to consist in an artless liberty on the one hand, and artistic license on the other.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
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