artistic license

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Director Michael Michetti capitalizes on this artistic license to give the play a modern makeover.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 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 Lowell, Percival