artistic license

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After the article came out, were you concerned that other comics might pull back on artistic license in their work to avoid the same kind of scrutiny?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 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

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