poetic

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The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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

How poetic that the same arm should deliver both pitches.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Structural parallelism works not just in poetic and hortatory passages but also in ordinary expository prose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker