poetize
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From the puppet craze well on into his precocious university life it was his passion to explore the widest ranges of experience and then to reflect, moralize, or poetize upon them.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
But to poetize the tragedy of others, to fiddle while Rome is burning, is brutal.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
But his finest poems are those which celebrate the affections of the household, and poetize the pathetic beauty of toil and poverty in city and country.
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
To the good gentlemen who poetize concerning grace and the antique, who sigh for togas, stolas, and paludaments, I say, Go to.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The writing itself seems tipsy: It can be energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting and spot on, but also loose, sloppy, digressive and excessively poetized at moments, veering into nebulous grandiosity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018
A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am afraid the builder of this new house poetized a little when he styled the original edifice a mansion.
From Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers by James Parton
I continued, but all arguments were poetized into feelings.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
Poetry and individual poets receive grateful consideration, the seasons are overworked, love rarely fails and nature never, wine and the Rhine are not forgotten, and the South is poetized as the land of undying inspiration.
From Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei by Allen Wilson Porterfield
Why single out Freud, who, despite his Romantic poetizing about the seething cauldron of the unconscious, was himself a neurological determinist and reductionist?
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019
It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks.
From Time Magazine Archive
For four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far from considering it as wasteful to give time and thought to the perfecting, beautifying and poetizing of forms, I think we should spend as much as we can upon it.
From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee
It is true that, in poetizing love, we assume in those we love qualities that are lacking in them, and that is a source of continual mistakes and continual miseries for us.
From The Darling and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
