artistic license

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“That was a real touchstone for me,” he says, adding that they did take artistic license with Stanton’s approach to facial hair, which in reality was “very whiskery.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Christopher Nolan’s movie mixes diligent research with artistic license.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

But Shakespeare “could get away with” a little artistic license, Ms. Ceci laughed.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

I mean, you could do a biopic about somebody who lived a hundred years ago, but they're not around, so I'm sure you have a lot of artistic license to do whatever you want.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2023

Many have seemed to suppose that the massive and undraped head shown in these pictures was the result of artistic license or indolence and a general desire to evade the task of making hair.

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill