artistic license
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But then we had artistic license to create looks in the style of what the queen wore at the time.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 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
In short, I left them out because I found problematic the artistic license both series used to make their point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 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
