poetic
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It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Dante Alighieri's Inferno may contain more than religious symbolism and poetic imagination.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
“It felt like all of these emotional arcs and themes in my life and poetic moments that had just happened were clicking into place.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
It is lost on me how he could square those poetic words with the decision he endorses in Callais.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026
Indeed, this was the poetic symmetry of shell-dwellers: They were tough on the outside to protect their soft innards.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing poetic
English Words Derived from French, List 1
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