poetic

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His entries read like a strange hybrid of laboratory report and poetic comparison.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

While I could wax poetic on the virtues of “Catwoman” for another 5,000 words, I won’t subject you to that here.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

How poetic that the same arm should deliver both pitches.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

He turned to Adam and said in poetic singsong, “ ‘Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.’

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck