poetic

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He waxed poetic when it didn’t help his prose and overwrote shamelessly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

His linguistic gifts and poetic sensibility for the English language, then in its infancy, gave his translation a vibrancy, immediacy, charm and clarity that have never been matched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The idea that “there will be no victor or vanquished” is not poetic fatalism, it is empirical reality.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

In that sense, Chinatown carries its own poetic legacy, the myth that deserves to endure.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven