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poetic

[poh-et-ik] / poʊˈɛt ɪk /


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But the journey there is richly rendered through Harris’ poetic sensibility.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

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 is lost on me how he could square those poetic words with the decision he endorses in Callais.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026

Once the cups were set out, and Henry had poured the tea, somber as a mandarin, we began to talk about the madnesses induced by the gods: poetic, prophetic, and, finally, Dionysian.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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