poetic
Example Sentences
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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.
It’s poetic, really, the cruelty of the universe.
From Literature
Indeed, this was the poetic symmetry of shell-dwellers: They were tough on the outside to protect their soft innards.
From Literature
Their presence may allude to the hymn “Panis Angelicus,” or “bread of angels,” written by St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century as a poetic reference to the presence of Christ in the consecrated host.
His entries read like a strange hybrid of laboratory report and poetic comparison.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
