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artistic license

NOUN
artistic freedom
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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

So that is artistic license — she wasn’t schizophrenic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 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 Bill Nye


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