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
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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