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your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing
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And what could be more poetic than a small-town girl being picked to portray the ultimate small-town girl turned beloved music titan?
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James Factora, Them, 6 Dec. 2024
Yet, given the subject matter, the repetition is more poetic than redundant.
—Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
A number of films that played IDFA, including holdovers from other European festivals, take a more poetic and experiential approach to the talking-heads documentaries that dominate American theaters and television.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2024
Stylistically, Universal Language is located somewhere between the poetic realism of Iranian New Wave cinema — think Children of Heaven, The White Balloon, and Close-Up — and the surreal comic sensibilities of Rankin’s fellow Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World, Rumours).
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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James Factora, Them, 6 Dec. 2024
Yet, given the subject matter, the repetition is more poetic than redundant.
—Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
A number of films that played IDFA, including holdovers from other European festivals, take a more poetic and experiential approach to the talking-heads documentaries that dominate American theaters and television.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2024
Stylistically, Universal Language is located somewhere between the poetic realism of Iranian New Wave cinema — think Children of Heaven, The White Balloon, and Close-Up — and the surreal comic sensibilities of Rankin’s fellow Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World, Rumours).
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Poetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetic. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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poetic
adjective
po·et·ic
pō-ˈet-ik 
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of poets or poetry
poetic words
2
: written in verse
poetical
adjective
-i-kəl
poetically
adverb
-k(ə-)lē
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