Holiday’s performance and the disturbing images of the poetic text mark the moment in the development of popular song when it could no longer be dismissed as mere frivolity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s called poetic license. Something allowed in a story that isn’t so in real life. Like a metaphor or a simile.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

People use poetic language to describe things they don’t understand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two ideas were fighting in him as in all the gods; a primitive, crude idea and one that was beautiful and poetic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody can resist this style of music, with its hypnotizing beats and poetic rhymes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One of the things I want to create is a Wander section where readers can send in pictures or videos of their favorite grand, small, bizarre, poetic, nothing-ordinary sites. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mother hadn’t reached into her poetic soul and dreamt me up a name. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s hard to concentrate in the lunchroom with the girls’ step team practicing in one corner, a rap group performing in the other, and Vondie and JB waxing poetic about love and basketball. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

With the long hair, the beard, and the pale white color he looked quite wild, but also, I have to admit, rather poetic. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is “It’s lovely. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was seriously like five lines, but it was grammatically correct and strangely poetic, and just completely different from anything I’d ever read before. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps my sitting in the library with an intensely cheerless, poetic look on my face only scared girls away. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But the poetic heart is not to be trusted. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the dance, and particularly enjoyed learning the lyrics, because they were poetic and it improved my vocabulary. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Offers wise and poetic counsel. I’d be the person world leaders came to with nasty philosophical problems.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The analogy is more poetic than precise, for the cell accomplishes its “burning” with only the moderate heat of the body’s normal temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While he was outside, however, in a development that can be regarded either as divine intervention or poetic justice, the roof over the banqueting hall collapsed, crushing Scopas and all his guests to death. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

You know how some celebrities wax poetic in interviews about how they just knew they'd be famous? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The normal, I understand, can see words my way only if they are adequately poetic: Poor Dan is in a droop. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained how the HeLa contamination problem happened, then said, “Her cells caused millions of dollars in damage. Seems like a bit of poetic justice, doesn’t it?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Really, my dude? You wanna explain that magnificent feat of poetic analysis for us?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Can you make ‘unavoidably detained’ sound a little more poetic?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From what Blackberry had told them, they had been almost expecting to find Fiver foretelling doom in a poetic torrent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above all he wanted the exposition landscape to produce an aura of “mysterious poetic effect.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I remind myself that I don’t like poetic language. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

That even if his father hadn’t taught him himself, some crotchety old nanny had waxed poetic on the value of tucking your shirt in, polishing your shoes, and combing your hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is “It’s lovely.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Miss Lumley, will the boys be having haircuts soon? Their appearance is positively poetic!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

What could be so difficult about dressing up in fine clothing and saying witty and poetic things already written out for you? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Until Greek literature and art entered Italy the Romans felt no need for beautiful, poetic gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poetic heart is not to be trusted with long-term decision-making. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You were expecting something—” “More poetic,” she says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When they say the heart wants what it wants, they’re talking about the poetic heart—the heart of love songs and soliloquies, the one that can break as if it were just-formed glass. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Structural parallelism works not just in poetic and hortatory passages but also in ordinary expository prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I know he’s making eye contact with all of us as he speaks but I can’t help but feel that he’s singling me out as he waxes pirate poetic. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As she told friends later, her poetic sensibility overwhelmed her good judgment. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a beautiful, poetic language, it sounded harsh as Klingon when they fought, especially when Mamou joined in and turned it into a three-way argument. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even the most intimate songs of Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn soften raw emotion with a poetic image - rejection being portrayed as an iced-up lake, or happiness as a bird singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Underwood said, “Cows don’t go to heaven,” to which Mrs. E.C.B. replied, “This one did,” and explained poetic license. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Once the cups were set out, and Henry had poured the tea, somber as a mandarin, we began to talk about the madnesses induced by the gods: poetic, prophetic, and, finally, Dionysian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

To me, I suppose, these tapes are a form of poetic therapy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Rise once more to make Pashtuns understand the song of honor. Your poetic words turn worlds around. I beg you, rise again. ” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He is poetic about it, in an integral-number sort of way. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you came home waxing poetic about socialism and ménages à trois, then they might be a little freaked out, too. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The musical forms, phrases, harmonies and the poetic structure reveal a great deal of material apart from the content of the lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Also, he's completely gorgeous and noble and dark and brooding and poetic. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the flyers and leaflets were filled with the poetic idealism that characterized the planning: The call caught the imagination of the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, ain’t nobody trying to be poetic,” I informed him, taking a seat on the arm of the couch. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them, reverent or irreverent, descriptive, either poetic or disparaging. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that a composer like Schubert should be attracted to poetic texts that placed emotions in the relative safety of natural metaphor. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Do not be misguided by my poetic inclinations. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My dad once told me about the poetic symmetry of the verse. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I liked the image of Margo as a balloon, but I figured that in his urge for the poetic, the detective had seen more worry in me than the pang I’d actually felt. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He could hardly manage English, much less the poetic language of a king. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The thing about Farsi is, it’s a very deep language: deeply specific, deeply poetic, deeply context-sensitive. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A touch of the poetic, better suited to the grandeur that Dawkins seeks to invoke than a colorless adjective like massive or enormous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh. I thought you was trying to be all poetic and stuff.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t meant to be poetic, it was meant to be true. You work for Poirot, don’t you? He sent you. You’re one of his eyes.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

These songs were shaped by the poetic metre of their lyrics, and consequently most of the troubadour songs, even the sad ones, have a gentle, foot-tapping pulse. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Next came a poetic ode to Columbus that was as long and difficult to endure as the admiral’s voyage itself: “Then from the Pinta's foretop fell a cry, a trumpet song, ‘Light ho! The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the little light Johnny recognized the rolling black eye, poetic negligence of dress. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My relative, Chief Mdingi, suggested the name Zenani, which means “What have you brought to the world?” — a poetic name that embodies a challenge, suggesting that one must contribute something to society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remind myself that stars are more than just poetic. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was simple and, since both Helmholtz and the Savage were dreadfully pained by the shattering and defilement of a favourite poetic crystal, extremely effective. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not particularly poetic, but it had the desired effect. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her sister got married, Theresa heard about it in a long, poetic letter, beautifully written. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's nothing elaborate in the language: it's blunt and simple, and that sparseness of poetic figure minimises the safe distance we normally keep between ourselves and full-on horror. Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z

I particularly enjoyed watching Phillip wax poetic over a lone red high heel, and he wears both grimy untied sneakers and yellow loafers with aplomb. Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z

The boxing motif in “Still Life” adds psychological depth and poetic resonance. Review | Get ready for a fight in these productions by Theater Alliance, Flying V 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The beauty of Tavares's architectural renderings combined with his highly imaginative way of making us see Brixton afresh is moving, poetic and funny. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-07-08T17:28:57Z

Mr. la Cour, who is stiffer as a dancer, is a superb partner, and their “Aria II” pas de deux was a gorgeous display of athleticism transmuted into suddenly poetic imagery. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z

Tanya puts forward her forward best efforts: She rents a Vespa, slips into lingerie and waxes poetic about the romantic dinner she wants to have with Greg. "The White Lotus": When it comes to vacation, what does pleasure actually look like? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Your prose is brazenly poetic and, at times, almost scientific. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

I may be griping — I confess loyalty to George Balanchine’s logical, child-focused, yet poetic version for the New York City Ballet — but London audiences and the British dance critics love Mr. Wright’s version. London Nutcrackers Defy Logic, and Still Delight 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

But one missed the sheer tonal beauty in this most poetic of slow movements. Richard Goode lends a lively voice to an exuberant all-Bach piano program 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

He brought out the ruminative, poetic elements of the music, even in mazurkas and waltzes that might seem lithe on the surface. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s not as poetic or immediately enjoyable as the first film. Review: ‘Buena Vista Social Club: Adios,’ Analytical but Still Loving 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

It's a startling film, a poetic vision of teenagers romping in the French countryside that dissolves into something nightmarish. Alicia Duffy: A film of one's own 2010-05-16T20:35:00Z

Rather than feeling forced together for an awkward breakfast, guests sit for hours, waxing poetic together – an immaculate house party. Mile-high city just got higher: Denver’s first cannabis-friendly B&B 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

What the show conveys most decisively, though, is a poetic side of Mr. Camnitzer’s art. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z

Marker didn’t invent the concept in literature or film — H. G. Wells’s “Time Machine” was adapted for the screen two years before “La Jetée” — but he did unlock its poetic possibilities. The Inspiration Issue: What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ 2012-09-26T15:52:19Z

In his poetic sketchbook, writer and illustrator Christopher Myers demonstrates the magic of this simple everyday device. The best children’s books for June 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

But part of her task has been to twist the poetic ambiguity of Ms. Morissette’s lyrics in the service of an original story. Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Frame is spare by comparison – spacious and poetic. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

“Weill provided him an outlet for those poetic energies.” Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z

But, Pardoll said, it’s tolerable as a form of “poetic license,” because the task he’s taken on is so important. Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

A day-in-the-life story, “A Coffee in Berlin” follows the downward-sloping fortunes of Niko, a scruffily poetic slacker who loses his girlfriend, his driver’s license and his financial support from Daddy. ‘A Coffee in Berlin’ Explores a City’s Shadowy History 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

But working within those limits, Mr. Soderbergh constructs a seamless, shimmering, restlessly propulsive visual narrative that can fairly be called poetic. ‘The Knick’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Tied Up in Knots 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

It's an abstract piece, taking a slim narrative about a bickering couple and scattering it through a series of poetic, highbrow conversations about the meaning of words and symbols. Home entertainment: 'Maps to the Stars' is a showbiz psychodrama 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Such poetic abstraction risks sounding flip out of context, but the qualities of Ewart’s compositional practice made the gesture seem more like an authentic celebration of multiplicity and invention. Review: A Contemporary Music Group’s Next Era Begins 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Shaw has created a poetic lesson in anatomy as she takes us on a journey of her body. Stage chemistry: the marriage of science and theatre is going strong 2011-03-09T14:13:20Z

Someone should have done the necessary checking and correction to allow the crowning work of Ferry’s outstanding poetic career to get its due. David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

But it’s not just Colonna’s poetic voice that this biography brings alive. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

It is a book of great poetic power, and for centuries it was one of our culture's greatest assets. The King James Bible's language lessons 2011-02-18T12:59:49Z

The field grows crowded with Muhammad Ali, and an unlikely poetic hero in the swirl, Arthur Ashe. A Poetry Collection That Squints Hard at the Culture, in Pain and in Joy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Satie’s “Gnossiennes” connect the work to the poetic purity of Frederick Ashton’s “Monotones,” a link it earns with long lines that suddenly break. Review: Christopher Wheeldon Creates a Memorable Realm 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Like her poetic 2012 “White Drama” collection and her 2005 “Broken Bride” collection, these designs appear to be outside commercial conventions. T Magazine: Fashion’s Purest Visionary 2013-12-06T20:36:25Z

The verbal truth of the war poems is fascinating in that their poetic music is almost completely surrendered in order to honour the spoken clarity of factual experience. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-12-14T22:55:06Z

Some excerpts will be read verbatim, while other poetic passages will be less recognizable, with dialogue being passed back and forth among actors. Bringing the World of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Briefly, to Stage 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I honestly feel he has taken the legacy of August Wilson — the poetic realism — and made it his own,” Mr. Taccone said. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z

That wasn’t always the case: On her 2014 self-titled debut album, she used often archaic words and knotty diction, as if she were straining to sound serious and poetic. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

As Nicole’s strangely poetic narration steers us through countless towns and grim interludes at diners, motels and rest stops, the show takes on a quality that’s alternately dreamlike and nightmarish. 6 Podcasts for the Drama Lover 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Despite her poetic title “In the Shade of an Unshed Tear,” Zubel wants to let each listener “find their own story. I prefer to keep it open so you can listen from different perspectives.” The next ‘Become Ocean’? Seattle Symphony to unveil new commissions 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Putting the slides there was an artistic, even poetic intervention. The Tate Modern at 10 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z

That’s the force behind the side of criticism that, if it’s any good at all, converges with the work of art by being itself a literary, poetic, philosophical inspiration. Why Movies Still Matter 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

The poetic visions of his dances lack the spectacular impact those old-school loyalists crave. At American Ballet Theater Gala, All Is the Same but Different 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Here rests the heart of Frederick Chopin — a sad, but deeply poetic denouement for a man who was truly one of the great poets of the keyboard. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

“The writers get the great joy of tagging along with the world’s best poetic dramatist,” Ms. Douthit said. Oregon Shakespeare Festival Plans Shakespeare 'Translation' Project 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

After all that has happened, it feels like poetic justice. The Lies That Bind, and Break, a Friendship 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Wertenbaker’s text, which retains all of the stiffness of Racine’s original but little of its lyricism, manages to excise much of the story’s poetic intensity and savage emotion. 2010-01-31T03:59:00Z

That season’s woozy, misty atmosphere, fascinating landscape and poetic lens set it apart from other crime shows. Review: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Soaks in Mood More Than Logic 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Since his death, I’d grown to be more poetic in my thinking,” Vesta says. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Robbins challenges convention at every turn and seems as comfortable roughing up the poetic canon as nodding to iconic TV and music. Four new poetry collections 2012-08-29T19:22:04Z

Smith manages to pack so much story and layer such rich characters into this generous but disciplined narrative because of his rare gift for poetic concision. Review | An irresistible tale of early cinema makes for perfect summer reading 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

I do an extensive analysis of his music, his lyrics, the poetic devices, to show just what we're missing when we have a narrow one-dimensional interpretation of a figure like that. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

“There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

But the piece’s loveliness — both physically and as a poetic offering to nature — harmonized my presence in the setting, putting me in mind of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Tales of diamond smuggling accompany the central theme of the disappearance of the artist's stepsister, as the air of poetic reverie leaves one with a distinct uncertainty as what is fact and what is not. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-12T00:05:41Z

Wastberg said the academy still hopes to communicate with the 75-year-old artist, whose award credits him with creating "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Nobel academy member calls Bob Dylan's silence 'arrogant' 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

To bring back the passenger pigeon – that would be an act of poetic justice. De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z

Also this poetic world, very far removed from the modern, urban world. Q. and A.: Chris Potter on ‘The Sirens’ 2013-02-05T17:18:12Z

“Hollywood dialogue was once witty, intelligent, ironic, poetic, musical,” he says. Life Itself - A Memoir - By Roger Ebert - Book Review 2011-09-25T04:13:02Z

In a way, the story became a struggle between the medical term “coronary-artery disease” and the more poetic and comical “widow’s block.” Roddy Doyle on Ex-Hurricane Ophelia and the Wild Atlantic Way 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

The poetic script describes Turner's slave rebellion as divinely inspired, much as the upcoming film "Birth of a Nation" is supposed to. Review: ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ an Avatar of Divine Vengeance 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Bentley, who danced under Balanchine’s direction at the New York City Ballet for a decade in the 1970s and ’80s, tells a history that is as vivid and poetic as the dance itself. Misty Copeland on ‘Serenade,’ Democracy and the Art of Movement 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

Brown’s impulses, like Agee’s, are both documentary and poetic. Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Beautiful, artfully crafted, poetic and true, this book will break your heart. Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, by Gil Adamson ? review 2011-01-22T00:06:15Z

Finding a location filled with real poetic potential is essential. C?dric Delsaux?s Photographs of ?Star Wars? on Earth 2011-12-11T00:53:02Z

Cuccinelli has been busy this week trying to justify his poetic revision by pointing to the restrictive immigration laws the United States passed in earlier centuries. Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

If you’re as much of a Tolkien geek as I am, you will already know that Jackson has some justification for some of the immense poetic license he has taken. “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”: Peter Jackson’s long goodbye to Middle-earth 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

It would be poetic justice if Twin Peaks peaked again, but it returns to a television landscape radically transformed, and a major factor in that transformation was Twin Peaks itself. Damn fine telly: why everything is now ‘a bit Twin Peaks’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Although less formally experimental than “Brown Girl Dreaming,” “Another Brooklyn” still presents its own distinctive structure: Every paragraph is set off by blank lines, which emphasizes the poetic style of Woodson’s prose. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The reflections in a lake, the roseate ribbon of a sunset, the rainbow created as light passes through an irrigation mister — all are rendered with poetic precision. When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

A prolific and versatile songwriter with a poetic touch, Case’s music is the sum of folk, rock, pop and country influences. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Nov. 23-29: Neko Case, Whitney Monge and Naomi Wachira, and more 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Hunt is a graceful, sometimes poetic writer who knows how to build suspense. Samantha Hunt’s ‘Mr. Splitfoot,’ and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The unpredictability of that did not seem to faze Mr. Suh, who has made a career out of making the awkward transitions of life somehow poetic. For This Korean Artist, Memories Are a Medium 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Lyrically, people like the story, they want poetic. Johnny Hallyday: the French rock'n'roller sets his sights on Britain 2012-11-15T19:00:01Z

"I think that all the jury felt the poetic force of Rosi's film and that's all there is to be said," Bertolucci said. 'Poetic' Italian documentary takes top honor at Venice filmfest 2013-09-07T20:38:33Z

Almost instantaneously, our Ishmael proves herself to be aggressively funny, ruthlessly pithy, low-key poetic and high-def mischievous — all within the space of seven seconds and 14 words. Review | Rico Nasty will show you what mischief sounds like 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

With a poetic, often enigmatic libretto by Alice Goodman, the work is consciously modeled on the Bach Passions, with Bach’s Evangelist metamorphosed into the opera’s nameless Captain, helplessly recalling the loss of his ship. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Although stuffed full of symbolism and the whole poetic bag of tricks, you can get through the Inferno, with a good translation, in a day. Nicholas Lezard on Dante 2013-05-09T08:45:00Z

“The Archangel Raphael and Tobias” catches the poetic nuances of nature. Exhibition Review: 17th Century Art: The Landscape Comes of Age 2011-06-03T12:00:43Z

“In the past, I was writing short stories that romanticized Beirut,” she said, “because it’s ‘poetic,’ right?” At a Queer Theater Festival, the Plays Are Brazenly Personal 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

But what he’s created is this wonderful poetic vision that is lyrical, evocative, learned and all the things we love about him. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z

In Lerici, unlike many other Riviera towns, the lingua franca is still poetic Italian. Next Stop: Lerici Lacks the International Cachet of Nearby Cinque Terre. 2010-06-16T20:05:00Z

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, cited for “new poetic expression within the great American song tradition” — leaving some delighted and some disgruntled that a songwriter would overshadow novelists and poets. Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize: A Podcast Discussion 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

In one of his early poems, “Islands,” he declared that his poetic ambition was “to write / Verse crisp as sand, clear as sunlight, / Cold as the curved wave, ordinary / As a tumbler of island water.” Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Among other acolytes, the attraction lies in a constitutional inability to embrace commercialism and a poetic use of established genre. Arts & Leisure Preview: Monte Hellman to Release a New Film, ?Road to Nowhere? 2010-05-15T02:25:00Z

The work is as remembered: intensely personal, deeply political and almost impossibly poetic. In NYC This Weekend? Here Are 2 Art Shows, 2 Operas and 5 Plays 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

One strong contender is Jonathan Louis Dent’s “The Broken Record,” a poetic piece of political theater that’s rare in its dramatic power and deft in its deployment of humor. Review: Taking In the New York International Fringe Festival, From Ferry to Theater 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Listening to bands like the Cure and the Smiths led me to think I could win a girl's heart by making her realise I was poetic and thoughtful and consumed by higher things. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z

At Nicole Pasquale’s ongoing comedy series, performers wax poetic about the social issues they are passionate about to make the audience laugh. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Organizers hailed “a poetic expression of light” throughout Kéré’s works: “Rays of sun filter into buildings, courtyards and intermediary spaces, overcoming harsh midday conditions to offer places of serenity or gathering.” Pritzker Prize awarded to Burkina Faso-German architect 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Any dedicated pet owner is inevitably expected to wax poetic about their animal’s unique personality, chronicling the hilarious things they do in text messages and social media posts. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Well through the turn of the twenty-first century, Merwin continued to hone his poetic vision, which extended the tradition of American Transcendentalism. W. S. Merwin in The New Yorker 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

I believe he pursued a poetic metaphorical cinema. “You have naked bodies and genitalia, don’t you? Why are you so adolescent?”: Director Peter Greenaway on “Puritan” Americans and the intense sex scenes in “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

This poetic debut novel, set in a damp house near a roaring river, explores the relationship between mothers and daughters. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lupu is noted for his poetic touch, particularly evident here in the singing lines he coaxed from the piano in the Adagio, which Brahms wrote as a homage to Clara Schumann. Music Review: From a Chair, Not a Bench, Exploring Brahms?s Poetry 2011-01-23T22:51:13Z

The texts, which seem to be less about fleeing than about arriving, draw on both quotidian detail and poetic imagery. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Gabriel Kahane - Review 2011-11-23T00:22:41Z

The resulting dialogue rises and falls in an almost poetic cadence, and it is littered with creative swearing and descriptions of deeply strange culinary concoctions. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Set to a poetic reinterpretation of Genesis by James Weldon Johnson, the solo shows Ms. de Lavallade’s compelling theatricality and gift for humor, and the gestural beauty of her arms and hands. Dance Review: Modern-Dance History Times Five, With Plenty of Theatricality 2010-12-14T06:00:17Z

Mr. Lang’s “face so pale” and Paul Kerekes’s “wither and bloom” used this unusual ensemble to achieve a similar effect: gently poetic washes of sound. Review: Bang on a Can Marathon Stays as Eclectic and Playful as Ever 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Thereafter, Aimard struck something like form, was poetic if restrained in the Larghetto, and traversed the final rondo with playful grace. BBCSO/Nott 2010-08-03T10:47:00Z

The Sylvae represent no less an achievement, showing Dryden in a perhaps unusual light – that of graceful poetic lyricist. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z

“The final scene, I wanted some kind of poetic justice for him,” Asbaek said. Ranking the Deaths in the Final ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

I could also wax poetic about the merits of a diner-quality club, but this sandwich from Ba Le is consistently great. I learned how to build a better sandwich at my local bánh mì counter 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

In a 2001 talk to the Lannan Foundation, she introduced “Wild Geese”—which, with “The Summer Day,” is her poetic equivalent of an arena-rock ballad—with a sheepish acknowledgement of its popularity. Mary Oliver Helped Us Stay Amazed 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Tricklock Company highlights artistic risk, physicality, absurdism and poetic work, and performances throughout the year feature strong new work by their prolific and talented ensemble. Top 10 art and cultural venues in Albuquerque, New Mexico 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z

Smudgy and grainy, but also elegant and strong, Serra’s blurred lines balance the industrial and the poetic. In the galleries: 3 artists explore 3-D 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

"I hope that his memorial will continue to remind people of his major poetic contribution." Ted Hughes joins literary greats at Poets' Corner 2010-03-23T06:00:00Z

As opposed to the boredom of prosaic reforms, advocating for human rights is, in its own way, another grandiose and poetic enterprise where we, as a people, fight against exploiters. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

While surmounting their challenges easily, she convinces you that these are among the most poetic and musical pieces Chopin produced. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Every line is treated as stark poetic realism, writ large and funny. A gothic 'Cripple' in Chicago straight from Galway 2011-03-17T14:32:10Z

And as the campfire dimmed, Bruce, one of the river guides, often read poetic observations from Edward Abbey and other lovers of the Western wilderness. Older adventurers stay young at heart rafting the Grand Canyon’s rapids 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The same font delivers the poetic majesty of “Visions of Johanna” and the embarrassing plonk of “Wiggle Wiggle,” a song that, you’ve hopefully forgotten, includes the line: “Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup.” One way to enjoy Bob Dylan’s songs without hearing his voice 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

One of the most vivid is a sensitive cop who committed suicide before the story even opens, but lives on through the poetic entries left behind in his notes. Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

On last week's poem of the week, posters discussed the valediction to Venus and, alternatively, the "hello" to Venus, as poetic genres worthy of future exploration. Poem of the week: Pervigilium Veneris 2011-03-21T11:04:18Z

Swinton describes “The Souvenir” as “a beacon in a new kind of poetic cinema.” In ‘The Souvenir Part II,” a human-scaled epic concludes 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The recording locations of the Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard are especially poetic: His albums have revealed the empty rooms of Chernobyl, the inside of morgues and the otoacoustic emissions of his own inner ear. Need More Nature? Listen to 12 Essential Field Recordings 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Not talking about it is also a way to avoid a falseness — the falseness of thinking poetic language can be applied to dressmaking. Azzedine Ala?a: The Master of the Female Form 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z

These three artists exemplify the qualities that have often made Odissi seem the most sensuously poetic of all dance idioms. Odissi Stars at a Dance Festival in Chennai, India 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Yet it epitomizes the poetic Romantic-classical essence at the heart of ballet. On the Frivolities of Ballet, the Contradictory Art 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

With countless marks of colored pencil, Seattle artist Amanda Manitach outlines achingly candid, witty, or poetic phrases against romantic, filigreed backdrops. With colored pencils and confessional phrases, Amanda Manitach’s art speaks to many 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

A colorful figure who was an aspiring judo instructor, Klein studied Rosicrucianism and was obsessed with philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science. Inside Art: Yves Klein Works Attract Attention in Sales and Exhibitions 2010-03-11T21:52:00Z

Hickey, a charming traveling salesman, in this dark and poetic drama that unfolds in a Manhattan saloon. Denzel Washington to Star in ‘Iceman Cometh’ on Broadway 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

“The Missing Picture” is a poetic and highly original film in which the starring roles are played by static clay figures. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z

This is what I think people really mean when they say something is poetic. Matthew Zapruder explains how you learned poetry wrong (but that's easy to fix) 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

The collective wanted to show that “there were different ways of making Black cinema, that were not just didactic or angry, but could be more poetic, more reflective, more meditative,” Lawson said. An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

As the subtitle suggests, it’s more a poetic essay on Twombly’s art and elusiveness than a chronicle of his days. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The film’s enduring power is perhaps most potent in its poetic final moment: Human flight now translated into tragedy, one of a life that cannot be — a timeless tale, Lee’s trademark. ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Griffiths and Jones see painting as a means to create a world that is more poetic and uplifting than our own. Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Evening Standard praised its "rare sensitivity and humanity"; the Scotsman called it "thoughtful" and "strongly poetic". Lynda Radley on Futureproof: a freak show about selfhood not sisterhood 2011-08-18T16:09:26Z

While the novelist Mohammed Hanif praised it as a "poetic meditation on the destructive urges that bind us together", some were uneasy about its twinning of beauty and brutality. Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z

And Mr. Wheeldon is similarly resourceful in his responses to Bernstein’s “Serenade after Plato: Symposium,” a violin concerto in five movements that slips between poetic lyricism and driving dynamic rhythm. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

His cringe comedy often began as a spoof of the hustle of American entrepreneurs, but invariably spun off into melancholy, oddly poetic moments. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is a mark of Keats's poetic genius and the power of his imagination that the words of this letter fall so naturally into the rhythm of verse. John Keats letter to Fanny Brawne set for auction 2011-01-25T17:32:31Z

On another, it’s a poetic meditation on the human struggle to make sense of a cruel and indifferent universe. Review: In ‘Bluebird,’ Momentary Distraction Sets Off a Chain of Misery 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

It begins with the author claiming reluctance to start work because he feels unready: his poetic garlands have no ripe fruit, only "berries harsh and crude" I don't think this is just a conceit. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z

Hayes, a fast-paced, politically minded poet, slows down appealingly in this hybrid nonfiction tribute to a poetic forebear and other father figures. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

In Love Hope & High Heels we found a fresh and wistful new poetic voice. The Polari prize takes a vada at gay writing today 2011-07-05T15:06:24Z

His latest photographs, small, scrappily poetic, mainly black-and-white prints, look much like his earlier works. Art in Review: Saul Fletcher 2014-01-30T21:45:07Z

It was not chaotic or poetic, just a quiet reality sitting in the back of my mind, waiting for the right moment. How to avoid committing suicide 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

The pictures are thrilling; the writing, expert and accessible; the total effect, deeply, coolly poetic. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

James proves especially adept at criminal power dynamics, expressed in poetic monologues laced with breathtaking obscenities. The ten best books of 2014

Here you can see Larkin's notebooks – his entire poetic output, complete with pencil workings, fills just eight slim volumes – and the thousands of letters he wrote to his mother over the course of her lifetime. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z

Ms. Beresford was characteristically poetic: “The universe may be limitless, but I can count my life in moments of seeing you, of hearing your voice, of disbelieving in scale,” she said. Their Story Wrote Itself 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

This is dance as sustained dramatic monologue, wholly poetic. Dance Review: Erasing Borders, Indian Dance at Asia Society 2010-06-06T22:28:00Z

It sets a poetic sequence by Christopher Reid, in which two skeletons, hanging on the wire between the opposing armies, converse and ponder their experiences. Prom 50: CLS/Layton ? review 2011-08-22T10:11:37Z

And it's funny as hell and it's beautiful because we have all this movement and poetic verse. "Blindspotting" is a "truly American story" about living in a country addicted to imprisoning people 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z

The judges cited “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

But as an actor your intentions are more poetic, and so I think I can do more than in politics.” A Sweeping Tale of a Terrorist and His Time 2010-10-09T17:04:00Z

Architecture’s exacting demands for structural harmony and contrast seemed to be present in his poetic design, which put emphasis on the exterior rather than the interior — form and sound above content. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z

After intermission she turned to Ravel’s piercingly poetic and very difficult “Miroirs” suite, playing with lushness one moment and striking crispness and clarity the next. Review: Beatrice Rana, a Young Pianist, Holds Carnegie Rapt 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trifonov demonstrated an elegant touch and witty grace in more lighthearted moments and poetic insight in more introspective passages. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov in Piano Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-10-01T21:49:39Z

Its patient pace and poetic tone, as it follows events, mundane and poignant, in the lives of a few Black families in the county, also infuse the photographs he has made there. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Vermeer takes it to the most poetic extreme, in his stilled metaphysical concentration on the most ordinary spaces and acts. Rebellious Rembrandt, Dutch explorer of the infinite 2011-01-11T15:26:42Z

This is powerful and richly poetic storytelling of a high order. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

“Written on Skin” was a large-scale dramatic piece; this new work is of a more intimate and poetic nature. Of Countertenors, Medieval Poetry and Capturing a Silvery Tone 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Again, no poetic language, no metaphor, just the unacceptable reality he has no choice but to accept. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Yet the collection is the poetic equivalent of exactly this: making borrowed boots shine. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-11-25T00:05:29Z

He is crossing his fingers for a positive outcome this month for a project in Beirut with “the largest cantilever in the world, the most graceful, poetic thing.” Conjuring Temples of Deep Desire 2010-07-19T13:50:00Z

Woven in with texts academic, poetic and everyday, the sounds rush together in an exuberant bouquet of fragments. Review: The Philharmonic Points a Trippy Kaleidoscope at the Past 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Logan’s script, alternately poetic and overly literal, meanders through time and space, and ends on the obvious note that neither fame nor innocence shield against war, aging and loss. London theater, 2013: Not a bargain, but the real deal 2013-05-08T21:15:06Z

Grant’s poetic side emerges in all the scenes that weave around those jailhouse encounters. Motherhood in all its complexity 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The chorus, especially in the Wolf's Glen, enthralls, as does the orchestra, rising to every challenge, urgent or lyrical, heroic or poetic. Weber: Der Freischütz – review 2013-05-11T23:05:09Z

In works published over a 50-year career, Fussell wrote memoir, literary criticism, social commentary and standard English Department fare on topics such as English literature and poetic theory. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z

Ms. Medvedow said she hoped visitors would draw a poetic connection between the fragility of ocean life and the shipyard. In an East Boston Shipyard, a Watershed Idea for Art 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Its poetic effects – its spring, bounce and wobble – are a whole other shooting match, but the basic tum-ti-tum isn't some higher function of the poetic mind. Translating poetry might be beyond Google ? but we'll have fun watching it try 2010-10-24T21:00:00Z

No, Lucas isn’t Shakespeare; I’m not inclined to throw around the lines as newfound poetic gems, and there’s nothing in his direction to throw the language, such as it is, into high relief. What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

And there is undeniable poetry — or perhaps poetic justice — in what is happening to Ms. Kusama’s career, given that she recently turned 90. Everything’s Coming Up Kusama, Including a Macy’s Balloon 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Oddly, a deeply poetic sketch by the same Seurat, “Evening, Gravelines” with a sailing boat moored in the distance, which followed on its heels, was unsold as the hammer fell at £220,000. 2010-02-05T05:23:00Z

You might put these humble objects in the category of Fluxus art: poetic finds of a connoisseur of the ordinary. Art In Review: MATT HOYT: ?2006-2011? 2012-01-19T23:45:58Z

“It speaks in such a poetic language to the hearts of the characters.” Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

But it isn't poetic sentences or surprising metaphors that propel us forward; it's the hard work of getting the story right — diligence required of any serious project about this, the most contentious of regions. 'Children of the Stone' a moving look at music's power in Palestine 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Yet this was a performance that highlighted the music’s Romantic musings, poetic lyricism and fanciful flights. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Denis Kozhukhin Perform 2014-02-14T22:30:29Z

The performers — a coterie of similarly minded musicians — didn’t abandon their Brazilian birthright: the trove of regional rhythms, the sinuous chromatic harmonies, the appreciation of poetic imagery and wordplay, the long-lined melodies. Music Review: ‘Brazilian Explorative Music,’ a Concert of Experimentation 2014-01-16T23:21:55Z

A poetic prodigy, Naomi was writing remarkably capable verse — much of it with a social conscience — by the age of 10. Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

“Time in that space is so deeply, deeply poetic, that it seems like, to me, involving poetry and poets more is just a natural extension.” Coming Soon to the Guggenheim: Words, Words, Words 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

In “Clap When You Land,” Acevedo returns to her poetic roots, alternating between the two sisters’ voices. Caught Between Worlds? For Elizabeth Acevedo, It’s a Familiar Feeling 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Walker’s poetic text dances across the page and Holmes’s striking collage portraits are filled with joy. Picturing the Power of Community 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

There is poetic language that is somewhat impenetrable and I can hide behind that. Cymbals Eat Guitars rises above 2011-10-20T16:36:00Z

Among the lost souls, petty hustlers and philosophers waxing poetic was Ol’ Po’ Carl, a would-be chef and former baseball player. Tour the Old Steel Town at the Center of ‘Lackawanna Blues’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

In combination with his own writings, or using fragments of literature as inspiration, Sullivan approaches photographs not as documents of a place or person but as visual stories that serve as poetic representations or metaphors. Jordan Sullivan’s “The Young Earth and An Island in the Moon” 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The limits imposed by dramatic structure and spoken dialogue reined in his natural tendency for poetic bombast and symbolism. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z

And despite all that wing flapping, the Texan never actually took flight; his minimalist, poetic lyrics certainly did. Billy Joe Shaver shines during 75th birthday party at the Satellite 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

They write with, poetic frankness: “When your dear one came to us from the night, it was so unbelievable, haunting and desperately sad.” Explaining the Popularity of Letters of Note 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

His two Armory recitals exhibited pianism of poetic freedom, assured interpretive choices and a D.J.’s ear for subtle musical connections. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Long’s poetic, richly colored illustrations manage to be personal and universal at the same time. Review | ‘Love’ and other best children’s and YA books to read this month 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Ursuta’s fist accompanies several other biting yet poetic pieces by the young artist, who had a solo show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles earlier this year. Miami’s new Institute of Contemporary Art debuts in time for Art Basel 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a poetic confession of the agony of trying to articulate a nuanced critique of faith and politics in an age of shrieking partisanship. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

The musical equivalents of these mannerisms permeated his performance, which was a shame, since, in stretches, he played with gripping power and poetic delicacy. Review: Lang Lang Opens Philharmonic Season, as Avery Fisher Hall Is Renamed 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The script reads like a mash-up of creation myths, poetic descriptions of all things star dust-related and penetrating thoughts about the mystery of the universe and our place in it. Stars reading about our stars: Sterling K. Brown, Darren Criss and others to perform 'In the Cosmos' 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

The yeshiva did not refer to Mr. Allen in its letter; that was Mr. Rosenberg’s poetic license. Noted: Hasidim See Things Through a New Lens 2014-04-11T19:42:53Z

There’s a poetic logic that exists in putting these two together.” A Rebound for a Summer Pairing of ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Oresteia’ at the Armory 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

“But this rationalization is less important than the poetic manner in which the tale is told.” Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Author of Eerie Children’s Tales, Dies at 87 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

A black polyhedron evoking a futuristic tombstone by Tony Smith completes a tableau that is as poetic as it is formally elegant. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z

Yet, in her libretto, in order to serve the conventions of the opera genre, Ms. Proulx also opens up the story line and, now and then, lends poetic elegance to the dialogue. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z

Dedicated to “the committed everywhere,” the script moves between naturalism and a more heightened, poetic style. Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan and the Draw of a Neglected Hansberry Play 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall, Mr. Trifonov was a brilliant, uncommonly poetic soloist in that composer’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Piano Concerto No. 2. Review: Daniil Trifonov Brings Subtlety to Rachmaninoff 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

As a director, how did you achieve your vision of this film and create poetic empathy? "Cyrano" director on what Peter Dinklage brings to this enchanting retelling of a classic 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

The semi-comprehensible North Indian dialect in which the characters spoke also brilliantly approximated Shakespeare's own intricate, poetic and unfamiliar language. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z

They're incredibly expressive, incredibly poetic, clear, and they bring the fire of the truth to the moment through those words. Jeffrey Wright on veterans and mental health: “We have a lot of work to do” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Though the people it portrays are probably not themselves great readers, the world Mr. Hoffman has created for them is self-consciously literary, a meticulously mapped land of poetic coordinating points. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

But unlike Milton’s work, this is neither epic nor particularly poetic. Review: A ‘Paradise Lost’ More Dutiful Than Divine 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

These images are by turn — and sometimes all at once — bold, unflinching, poetic, familiar, cloaked, direct, joyful, defiant, mischievous and suspicious. Foot soldiers and unheralded leaders of the Black Panthers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Her libretto is poetic, poignant, sometimes grimly funny, always dramatically effective. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

So it makes a certain poetic sense that in Lars von Trier's latest movie, a whole planet named Melancholia appears from behind the Sun to threaten happiness on Earth. 16 top entertainment picks to kick off 2012 2011-12-28T21:43:08Z

The German baritone Christian Gerhaher is the foremost lieder, or art song, singer of our time, able to blend poetic intelligence with endless shadings of vocal color. Christian Gerhaher: Summiting Mount Mahler 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

"New York City worked itself into my life at a walking pace," he says in typically poetic language early on. Teju Cole's 'Open City': walking the length, breadth and heart of post-9/11 New York 2011-02-26T00:07:07Z

From Borrowed Time's zippy lament on boredom and inspiration to Stoned and Starving's improbably poetic lunch hunt, it's an ultra-catchy, sharp-witted marvel throughout. Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold – review 2013-01-10T21:14:01Z

David says: “I think it’s the best bit of the book actually. It’s the most emotional, quite poetic.” Our daughter died. Now she lives in the pages of a romantic novel 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

The mysteries of cryptic, poetic dialogue are more easily accepted when they’re delivered by a whisper instead of a shout. Review: ‘Old Times,’ Where the Past Is a Dangerous Place 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Fifty years after India won its freedom from British rule, hers was a feel-good news story: a beautiful woman from a former colony writing in poetic English about family and loss. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

You could read a lot of interesting essays about Emily Dickinson’s relationship to the war, from a poetic as well as a historical perspective. ‘Dickinson’ Uses the Civil War to Explore Modern Divisions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

He rapped in stern clusters that expanded the genre’s poetic range and its formal ambitions. Complete Eric B. & Rakim, a Fresh Look at Wire and a Whole Lotta Guns N’ Roses 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

And many of the movies in which filmmakers do so—turning “novelistic” filmmaking into a personal adventure and finding new ways of making images to render their novels poetic—are screened at Anthology Film Archives. Jonas Mekas, Champion of the “Poetic” Cinema 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Also breathtaking photographed on HD is A River Changes Its Course, a beautifully poetic film about rural life in a changing Cambodia. Sydney film festival: 10 things to see and do 2013-06-05T01:58:00Z

The Blacksonian reveals a wicked, poetic sense of humor about this history. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Finally, according to ancient poetic tradition, the finger points at Eros. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z

Everywhere there are frames and canvases, miming and mirroring and silhouettes, with particularly poetic set designs by Sadra Tehrani and Ebony Burton. Two New York Neighborhoods Set the Stage for Decadence and Loss 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Beginning with a spacious Aria, Mr. Tharaud offers imaginatively ornamented renditions of each movement, his playing — full of contrasts — spirited and poetic by turn. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

He played the top line with a singing, poetic lilt and couched the accompanying figures in darker hues. Music Review: Alexander Schimpf Plays Adrian Sieber at Zankel - Review 2011-12-07T23:23:16Z

Though the fit requires many artistic liberties, including a Greek chorus of orange-jumpsuited convicts, Alfaro’s drama is rooted in the poetic spirit of Sophocles. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z

It's a play in which light and dark fight to the death without the insurance of poetic justice. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

From my perch on the second floor, the women and a third dancer, Addys Gonzalez, looked like poetic, almost tragic misfits in a landscape dotted with picnicking families and bluegrass bands. River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Urne-Buriall,” his most memorable work, is a field guide to earthly oblivion, a poetic compendium of his obsessively collected knowledge about death, decay, burial, burning and the cruel brevity of human memory. Thomas Browne, 17th-Century Author, Draws New Interest 2012-08-07T12:00:00Z

Yet despite being fictional contrivances, they exude poetic effects, as if a spiritual persona in the artist were striving to overcome his secularist prejudices. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Spaltro pleads and howls her way to the crux of the matter, finds her own way out, and leaves a poetic map behind for the rest of us. Ripely Pine: A New Album That Details What It’s Like to be a Twenty-Something in 2013 2013-02-22T14:30:13Z

There is no decoration here, no poetic embellishment. Amid Family Upheaval, a Heroine Finds Comfort in the Concrete 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

“It was simultaneously baroque, poetic and fragile,” said Mr. Perrotin, the contemporary art dealer. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z

During a Grand Canyon stop in May 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt waxed poetic about the canyon view, as well as the need to protect the area. Four seasons, four stunning national parks 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

All of this is narrated in a freewheeling, aggressively poetic prose style that gives the narrative a hallucinatory quality that is evocative but that wears thin after a while. ‘Beatlebone’ review: What does John Lennon need to find his muse again? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Alas, being starry-eyed seems less poetic than naïve nowadays. Review: In ‘17 Border Crossings,’ Some Areas Are Left Unexplored 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

France is a place where authors and artists are granted a special status – a kind of poetic licence or artistic immunity. C?line: great author and 'absolute bastard' 2011-01-31T11:33:28Z

Here, at least, they serve as poetic reminders of the great synapse between art and experience. Art in Review: Julien Bismuth: ‘An image as the _______ of a surface’ 2014-01-16T22:46:52Z

What is fascinating about this score is the Japanese composer's unidiomatic setting of Poe's text, creating mystery through ethereally haunted sounds and strange accent of the poetic lines. NY Phil Biennial laudable, yet in need of curatorial vision 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

They have just released their debut full-length album on Guano Recordings, Sakte Ut Av Fokus, where they play warm, poetic, dreamy and powerful pop/rock. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z

The mosaic of escalating violence depicted in the play takes place against a background of almost breathtaking beauty, in the elegant sets designed by Derek McLane, among his most poetic and effective work. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z

He coaxes us readers deep into weeds of Tessa’s research, rendering technical details about things like “limping iambic” poetic meter, not only graspable, but engrossing. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

There’s none of the poetic ambiguity or psychological penetration of Graham’s finest work, all of which predates 1960. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z

There's nothing didactic here — just brilliant vocals, thought-provoking narratives, hypnotic violins and the most finely attuned poetic sensibility in rock. A summer soundtrack: Janelle Mon?e, The Hold Steady, The Roots and more 2010-08-04T21:56:00Z

More suggestive than depictive, Mr. Gurrin’s images — a distant prairie home subjected to slow, prismatic distortions; an industrial building standing placid amid simulated wind gusts — provided poetic counterpoint without distracting unduly from the music. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z

A poetic staple has its moment in the sun this week, as fate and destiny spin their wheel in our direction. Readers recommend: songs about fate and destiny 2010-09-16T23:01:00Z

But “Smoke Signals” boasts a poignant, poetic screenplay that also considers issues of fathers and sons, resentment and forgiveness as when Thomas asks and answers, “How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream.” Honoring the folks who made this whole Thanksgiving thing possible: The 10 best Native American movies 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

In Diaz’s strange and poetic “You Will Get Sick,” slated to start previews Oct. Meet Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

They treat technique as an impediment to poetic flow. Review | Georg Baselitz is an overrated hack. Art collectors fell for him — but you don’t have to. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

You coin the term “poetic naturalism” for your own particular brand of this guiding philosophy. “There is just no such thing as God”: A physicist searches for meaning in the natural world 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

He entices us with the possibilities of a poetic redemption, and he spoils that redemption by resuming his work as a corporate shill. 'Mad Men' Finale: Readers Respond 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Our caption exchange sparked a real-life chat during which we waxed poetic on this special bean that is often, inconceivably, overlooked in a lot of households. A love letter to the vastly underrated kidney bean 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The descriptions of her hallucinations are hypnotically poetic. Review | ‘Mexican Gothic’ is a creepy, intoxicating mystery that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

He believed that Miró had found a way to depict the "poetic reality" of life, in ways that his manifesto had described, but which he had not fully imagined. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z

Their poetic themes intertwine, especially as regards sex, which each explores with uncommon ardor. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Of course, there is history, and it’s nasty — as we learn from lucent black-and-white flashbacks and Asher’s oddly poetic internal monologue. Review: ‘My Father Die,’ Full of Testosterone and Misogyny 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Kagge’s book was a visual feast of hazy horizons and poetic sentences about the value of silence. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Here is perhaps the most intelligent and poetic of this production’s many small innovations. Dance Review: Under an Enchantment and Catching Z?s for a Century, but With Both Eyes Open 2011-07-06T22:11:45Z

In this, she perfectly serves Mr. Dawson’s choreography and his flair for creating surprising and beautiful duos, full of swirling, floor-skidding turns, astonishing upside-down swinging lifts, and moments of poetic physical beauty. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

And Ms. Goodman’s poetic libretto, though often enigmatic, is powerfully so. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

But with Williams, the tension lies in the poetic conflict between style and substance. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Shen makes poetic film and video installations that explore how the authority of science and spirituality can be eroded by real-life experiences. Meet Six Disrupters at the New Museum’s Triennial 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

I expected beautiful Chopin from this young Russian pianist, a brilliant virtuoso with poetic sensibilities, in two programs early this year that were part of his Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The ideas of "Metals" are a little bit sparser than in Feist's previous works — less blatantly autobiographical, more simply poetic, and filled with more forward-looking sentiments, which is new for her. It's about time for Feist 2011-11-11T02:35:42Z

The judges called him “a profoundly original American poet whose work embraces the coexistence of comedy and tragedy, exploring the intersection of high poetic style and an often startling vernacular.” Allen Grossman, a Poet’s Poet and Scholar, Dies at 82 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

He created a poetic lexicon of violence, perversion and suffering unequaled in rock. Album review: Lou Reed and Metallica, 'Lulu' 2011-10-28T05:34:00Z

JULIET: That annoying thing with thy mouth when thou thinks thou said something poetic. Shakespeare’s Deleted Scenes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“She wrote with a striking poetic flair, and with a sense of grace that also defined her very generous spirit.” Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Now in her late seventies, she is a charismatic woman who speaks in a mixture of poetic flights and pungent aphorisms. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

It serves as a delicate, poetic counterpoint to the undercurrent of testosterone and possible violence running throughout the show. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

As to poetic form, it is not quite true to describe him as a formalist: the vast body of his work contains poems of many kinds. Peter Porter: the ultimate conspiracy theorist 2010-04-27T11:58:00Z

Makes it seem more poetic than it is. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z

“I tried to show the neighborhood living in a more poetic way,” Ayouch says. A fairy tale with a real-life grit 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Its program at BAM Fisher on Thursday included a poetic monologue, a stop-motion film and three dance pieces, with and without video accompaniment. Review: Satellite Collective Mixes Media and Messages at BAM Fisher 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

These highlight the interior’s specific qualities, often in poetic language accompanied by music. The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

And yet, this is one of the most assured, poetic and beautifully calibrated books I’ve read in years. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Trash is poetic treasure in this intriguing collection of verse by the current Young People’s Poet Laureate. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Its depiction of war has the surreal kick of Mr. O’Brien’s 1978 novel, “Going After Cacciato,” and a poetic pointillism distinctly its own; they combine to sear images into the reader’s mind with unusual power. Books of The Times: ‘The Yellow Birds’ by Kevin Powers 2012-09-06T16:01:27Z

Salah at first falls in love with the blue-eyed, blond, handsome Jew and writes lengthy, poetic accounts in his diary of the friendship between them. The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu 2010-04-10T14:10:00Z

At their best, his pictures are ruminative and poetic all-American stories that move with the unhurried pace of Asian arthouse cinema, or postcards from obscure places, complete with doodled footnotes. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

He closed with a poetic explanation and endorsement of the effect love has on those who share it, and those who surround it: Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

The hairdos were intended to be romantic and poetic, an inverse to their purpose during ancient Greek and Roman times. Thinking Hard About Their Hair 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In her books, she describes death, and the act of dispatching it, as something poetic, giving it deeper meaning beyond just the end of a life. How Anne Rice's alcoholism influenced "Interview with the Vampire" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

"But it's certainly poetic. I don't think I've ever been involved in anything quite like it." Artist still pines for Prometheus, the Methuselah of bristlecones 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The word axé, she said, “means a blessing. A positive energy. Axé is an affirmative way of starting discussions against oppression. Against social exclusion. Against racial discrimination. This for me was a new poetic language.” Brazil’s Outspoken Daniela Mercury Is a Swirl of Ideas and Songs 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

“They are finding poetic ways to talk about personal narrative, history and land,” she said. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

This would seem to be poetic justice, given what we know about Johnny, and that’s very little. The Way of Fatherhood, as seen in "Cobra Kai" 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The venue’s current show also ponders the border, but in a more poetic mode. Review | In the galleries: Circles of life at annual benefit for people living with cancer 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The treasure trove also contained a letter from Clarinda to Burns, dated 2 August 1791 and containing for the first time her complete poetic response to Burns's poem "On Sensibility". Lost Robert Burns manuscripts discovered 2013-01-12T08:00:01Z

For neoclassical writers like Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, writing in the 18th century, the essence of poetic creation was mimetic, or imitative. M.H. Abrams, Who Shaped Romantic Criticism, Dies at 102 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Authors such as Samuel Beckett or Julio Cortázar influence some of her stories, featuring amateur actors deadpanning their way through intricate, poetic scripts. Artist of the week 124: Keren Cytter 2011-02-04T17:31:26Z

Unlike the earlier "Jazz Players," this poetic visual song is fully non-figurative. LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Lyrically, Mr. Pallett is more plainspoken than usual on “In Conflict,” without losing his poetic voice. New Albums From Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Sleaford Mods and Owen Pallett 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Dreamed up by the centre's poet-in-residence Simon Armitage, it is intended to echo the poetic spirit of the ancient Olympic Games. London prepares for poetry bombing 2012-06-26T12:45:30Z

Throughout, “Sunset, o639 Hours” creates a coherent, poetic realm of the imagination. ‘Sunset, o639 Hours,’ a BalletX World Premiere 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

This, the blank period of semi-sleep, is the most poetic of the day. The New York Times should eat its words: breakfast is for champions 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

And, for viewers, there is a poignant poetic effect in the blurring of years across the evening. Age on stage: how actors and plays depict the passing of the years 2013-02-21T17:03:42Z

Ms. Spector said Mr. Daskalopoulos thought it was “a very poetic phrase that captures the spirit of art and how artists work.” Inside Art: Guggenheim Defends Show of Trustee?s Art 2010-12-16T22:51:20Z

It's clear from the Sutherland comments that for some, the word "poetic" means something like "lyrical" or "inspiring" or "thoughtful". On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z

Theodorakis’ work ranges from rousing songs based on major Greek poetic works, many of which remain left-wing anthems for decades, to symphonies and film scores, including “Serpico.” ‘Zorba the Greek’ composer Theodorakis hospitalized 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Kane is a wily autocrat who can wax poetic in speeches but privately brings aides and even aldermen to their knees — sometimes literally. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

The writing is nearly biblical in its stateliness, shot through with compressed, poetic description and its main figure's sense of righteousness. 'Lonesome Animals': Crimes, punishment in 1930s Eastern Wash. 2012-05-24T20:21:04Z

And that sense of discovery — sometimes witty, sometimes serious, invariably poetic — characterized Ashton’s long career. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Celebrated by the Sarasota Ballet 2014-05-05T21:49:58Z

The movement floats along in the most poetic way, a wonderful moment. Violinist Isabelle Faust to appear with Seattle Symphony 2011-10-26T20:02:04Z

Those adjectives also describe the words spoken here, which mix poetic philosophical musings with the more terse, confrontational speech of wary strangers feeling their way through unknown territory. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

MacKay carries the intense and poetic film as a young man struggling to cope with loss, even as his survival alienates him from his bereaved neighbors. Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival 2013-05-19T14:15:12Z

“Dreamers” aims for the glorious and the poetic; it’s big, passionate, crammed with detail. Picture Books About Dreams and Dreamers of All Kinds 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

What remains of great artists is their work and although Smart's paintings depicted the darkening skies, parched concrete and stark forests of Europe, his work maintains a strange and poetic universal vision. Jeffrey Smart: a surrealist visionary 2013-06-21T02:33:00Z

The result was simply a dedicated focus on the art and poetic themes of the early 19th-century lied. Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber – review 2012-11-18T13:26:17Z

He agrees with the early-20th-century French poet Paul Valéry, who famously said, “A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state of mind by means of words.” Stop dissecting a poem as if it were a dead frog 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

“Compassion” is set upon a somewhat conventional set of chord changes, so we are able to clearly see Ornette’s poetic and harmonic logic guide his melodic intent as it would throughout his career. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Shorter had initially intrigued her with promising teases about the myth of Iphigenia — its young heroine, its blur of the comic and tragic, its poetic depths. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The word "hobnail" first appears in a text attributed to Shakespeare, but it's difficult to imagine it arose from a creative poetic act. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

By presenting the gleeful idiosyncrasy of these artists’ flamboyantly poetic renderings of arch-prosaic subjects, Young and Whisenant confront colossal matters of aesthetic theory with a sly wink. Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Here at last was the beauty of Salten’s writing, created not in script or with character development, but in paintings that captured the poetic feeling that had eluded us for so long.” Tyrus Wong, long overlooked animator of ‘Bambi,’ dies at 106 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Nor is there really a plot to follow, not even a chronology that points the way through a series of essays veering from haunting survivors’ tales to poetic musings on science. Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

The nostalgic tone feels less freewheeling and poetic than dark and suspenseful now. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

When the woman’s hauntingly poetic internal monologue links her release from the weight of words to social conscience, it’s an inconceivable notion for them. Anthony Minghella's prescient playwrighting finds life on a Venice stage 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

He’s allergic to anything that smacks of pretension, which inevitably inspires one of his favorite expressions: “of my balls,” as in Slava is a “poetic clown of my balls.” The Dumbledore of Clowning 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Housman is a poet who often seems to be on the verge of saying the conventional poetic thing, and then, in a flash, turns it in a new direction. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

The gun bits are fine; one startling tableau is as disturbing as it is visually poetic. Review: ‘The Annotated History of the American Muskrat’ Is Worried About America 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

They have a Postmodernist spin, too, that calls attention to the formal and poetic conventions of pastoral landscape painting. Review: ‘The Art Show’ at the Park Avenue Armory Covers the Creative Map 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Winnette's vision is darker, and his knack for tapping into scenes of primal fear and poetic violence serves as an indictment of our species' base nature and worst instincts. In 'Haints Stay,' an edgy indie publisher takes on the bloody Old West 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

And I will always remain intrigued by work — be it art, film, literature or music — that examines the difficult issues generated by the drug trade in considered and poetic ways. Days of the dead: Time to say 'enough' to extreme narco-culture? 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Finally, much of her poetry made meticulous use of rhyme, which by the mid-20th century was disdained by the poetic establishment as inimical to the making of serious art. Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

The fuzzy, flocked wisteria in deepest black that rambled across the designer’s collection was a new version of her poetic arts. Fashion Review: Flowers and Power 2013-06-28T17:58:00Z

Of what was labeled, correctly, as Matsuzawa: “Faceless, typewriter, neat as a pin but utterly flaccid performances with small, tiny poetic gestures added like so much rouge on the face of a Russian doll.” A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

But pull up the League’s campaign manifesto, dig past the strident anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric, and suddenly the tone turns more poetic. A New Italy, Imagined by Artists and Demagogues 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

She now lives and teaches in Oakland, but she is less concerned to depict Northern California than to imagine the rewards of far-flung travel, in time, in space and amid poetic traditions. New works by poets Jennifer Moxley, Judy Halebsky, Saeed Jones 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

McLaughlin’s void is ma, the poetic space and interval between things that animate Japanese art. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Hebrides Overture, with which Marriner opened, was efficiently played, but phrasing was rather foursquare, orchestral balance was elusive, and there was little of the poetic exhilaration that animates the piece. ASMF/Marriner – review 2012-12-20T15:54:59Z

David Zellnik’s “Blue Handed” is the most poetic piece of the bunch, a spare, two-actor play about guilt and abuse of power. Review: One-Act Highlights Find the Laughs in Political Anxiety 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Imagine a sharp episode of "The Office" — if that sly sitcom were a live-theater piece blending loony sight gags and spasms of inspired physical comedy with poetic reveries of existential angst. 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z

Before that, Michael Conley conducted the chorale, a proficient volunteer chorus that recently concluded its 40th-anniversary season, and the Festival Chamber Ensemble in two poetic American works. Music Review: Washington Square Music Festival With West Village Chorale 2012-07-11T21:56:11Z

Simon & Garfunkel-style poetic folk for the current generation, it is literate, full-bodied and revitalizing. Who should get the folk Grammy ? Fleet Foxes or Eddie Vedder? 2012-02-10T12:42:08Z

It’s such a poetic title, “I Am Happiness on Earth,” but it’s also a purposeful con. In ‘I Am Happiness on Earth,’ Lusty Situations 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

But none of this enmity is reflected in the poetic and densely allusive text of “Unearthing.” Alan Moore Celebrates a Real Person in ?Unearthing? 2010-07-26T22:10:00Z

The three films in this program suggest that Wali and Woods were primed to push the cinema ahead into new blends of personal, political, and poetic investigation. Forgotten Treasures of Black Women’s Cinema 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The two presidents, both trained lawyers with poetic sensibilities, forged their identities and their careers in what Mr. Kaplan calls “the crucible of language.” Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Antony and Cleopatra still ranks as theatre's most extravagantly poetic lovers. Cleopatra - review 2011-02-27T18:00:25Z

Saint Laurent is known to have said: “Art is a very big word for couture. It’s a métier like any other, but a poetic métier.” Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

She tells her stories with frustration and bite, and with shrewd poetic accumulation. Small, radiant new plays in the burbs 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

She strews italics across almost every page, to denote both direct quotation and poetic emphasis, and you’re sometimes confused about which she intends. Books of The Times: A Young Writer Goes Searching for Harlem 2011-01-25T18:58:36Z

To his mentor Robert Frost, who shared his vision of a poetic diction hewn from everyday speech, he was someone driven less by a death wish than a desire to test his own worth. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky – review 2012-11-16T11:57:23Z

I guess it falls within the guidelines of poetic license that Lewin has cast Hawkes, a man with a wiry, muscular and entirely normal physique, to play the role. “The Sessions”: An unlikely, certain-to-be Oscar-bound sex fable 2012-10-19T17:02:00Z

“We thought it was an important time and an important way to talk about the shifts that are going on in San Francisco in this really celebratory, poetic way,” said Valerie Imus, its exhibitions director. ‘All These Darlings,’ a Floating San Francisco Peep Show 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Those are valuable, but none are as rewarding as when the camera returns to Ms. Fornés, whose every utterance sounds poetic yet unpretentious, even as her disease progresses. Review: In ‘The Rest I Make Up,’ a Playwright’s Life as Memories Ebb 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Musicians don’t need to think so exclusively about what sounds, beats and structures the radio gatekeepers will allow; they can get poetic, political, sonically weird or all of the above. With Streaming, Musicians and Fans Find Room to Experiment and Explore 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Line-for-line it's rarely less than laconically funny, and hardly a paragraph goes by without a poetic perception worthy of a latter-day Huck Finn. Edisto by Padgett Powell – review 2012-11-06T12:45:01Z

There’s something poetic about the movie introducing new audiences to Gerima’s legacy: Its title derives from a Ghanaian term that translates loosely to “retrieving the past while going toward the future.” Haile Gerima Is Having a Hollywood Moment. It’s Left Him Conflicted. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

There’s no doubt that Mr. Peck is an accomplished planner of poetic structure, but only at a few moments did real steps, phrasing and dance impetus get under my skin. Dance Review: Justin Peck’s ‘In Creases,’ by New York City Ballet 2012-07-17T22:06:52Z

That title gives you a taste of the Quay Brothers’ work: influenced by Eastern European animation, it has room for the antique, the peculiar, the poetic. The Week Ahead: Sept. 18 ? Sept. 24 2011-09-16T17:55:53Z

“Surrender” leapfrogs through Bono’s and U2’s improbable story in vignettes that zigzag between poetic and prosaic, devout and skeptical, privileged and conscientious, mystical and political. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

The soundtrack too takes some equally bold moves, conspiring to create a cryptic and poetic film unlike others before or since. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray releases 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Rincón dabbles in the poetic, mixing the mortals’ sometimes self-help-sounding domestic discourse with grandiose statements of love everlasting from the divine duo, who are prone to endless arguments. Review: Star-Crossed Lovers in Need of a Divine Assist 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

In a column from 2017, I argued that what distinguished Macdonald’s comedy was his sensitivity to language, his peculiarly poetic brand of plain talk. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert’s reading was more conventionally Germanic, but he added poetic touches of his own, starting with a slight lingering on the first note in the work’s opening figure. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z

If you read Persian, the writing was revealed as poetry, and the interpretation became more complex, with the text suggesting, perhaps, the inner, poetic life of women whose opportunity for self-expression was limited. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

In the last of the four pieces there were flashes of real poetic engagement as well as that rarest of events in a Kissin recital: a wrong note. Evgeny Kissin – review 2012-11-22T17:43:55Z

And in the track that follows, “When You’re Here,” he crafts poetic verses filled with emotion and interior rhymes that surely would impress even Bob Dylan himself: John Fullbright closes Levitt Pavilion Pasadena series Aug. 23 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

In a sense, Powers is heir to the bigoted and poetic characters from “A Confederacy of Dunces.” Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

Inspired partly by black Shakers, mainly the religious activist Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, Mr. Wilson explores the intersection of worship and dance with poetic imagination. Review: Connecting Dance and Worship With Poetic Imagination 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

In awarding her the Nobel, the Swedish Academy cited her “novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import,” through which she “gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The Wire is bleak and poetic like a sort of ghetto Tarkovsky. The Guide's 1,000th issue: 2004-2007 2013-01-05T00:04:00Z

He tells his story in short, atmospheric paragraphs, each separated by white space, each its own strobe-lighted snapshot of decadent poetic memory. Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z

A sequence of brief poems, Southern American miniatures, shows the range of Wright's aesthetic powers and poetic interests with haiku-like associative leaps. In 'Shallcross,' C.D. Wright was at the height of her powers 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The result was clothes that hovered between manmade city and nature, with an urban urgency, yet a poetic vision. Special Report: Fashion: A Photo Gallery to Wear from Dries Van Noten 2011-09-28T17:44:01Z

Many fictional films try to portray dignity in rural decay, but the authentically poetic "Bombay Beach" is the real deal. `Bombay Beach,' `The Guard' highlight Tribeca 2011-05-02T11:46:04Z

As April is National Poetry Month, the challenges at this competition will involve verse, meter, rhythm, poetic forms and, according to an email from the company, “as many rhetorical devices as we can squeeze in.” 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The plot might not be autobiography, but Ginger's activist roots, social conscience, poetic heart, and parts of that barnet, are all Potter. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z

I aim for a more poetic response, something that historians might be able to look at and see as relevant in years to come. Photographer Mark Power's best shot 2010-06-09T21:29:00Z

“It’s a really beautiful poetic story, and also a Jewish story of migration,” Ms. Gould said. Tracing a Family History Through the Journey of a Tiny Figurine 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Two men try to pick her up, though their attention is more poetic than predatory. | 'The Portuguese Nun': On the Streets of Lisbon, Love, Romance and Desire 2010-10-21T23:13:00Z

The content was enigmatic — sometimes wordless, sometimes poetic — but the evocation of apocalyptic distress was indelible. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Köck, a young Austrian theater maker, finds an arrestingly poetic register for this meditation on the grief and panic that are common responses to seeing nature perish. Plays of Helplessness, and Hope, as the Planet Burns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Charlap played a quiet, sublimely poetic rendition of “On the Sunny Side of the Street” that seemed to vanish and reappear as though emanating from the distance through a mist. Music Review: Nightlife Awards Presented at Town Hall 2013-01-16T22:49:17Z

They’ve never known a time when tragedy wasn’t the central fact of his existence, when he wasn’t the embodiment of poetic suffering. How ‘Either/Or’ made Elliott Smith a star, and why a tragic glamour lingers many years after his death 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

None of this was accomplished by flailing "innovation", and this, I think, is the real poetic miracle of the sonnets. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The sound was melancholic, the visuals muted, but the combination never descriptive or poetic. A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

There is an inertia to the writing and an occasional poetic lilt. A very real take on turning 60, written with wit and verve 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Pite's gift for concentrating movement into resonant poetic images is outstanding. Cedar Lake ballet's great leap forward 2012-10-09T16:04:05Z

In the Summer of His Years also concerns the death of JFK, but is both a lament and a poetic retelling. Readers recommend songs about assassination: The results 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z

The work is expansive, providing enough information that readers understand the facts of each story and its impact before the writing takes wing, becoming more insightful and poetic. Best poetry books for March 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

While Schönwerth’s style is generally austere, it does occasionally admit poetic phrases and flourishes. A newly discovered trove of unknown fairy tales: ‘The Turnip Princess’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Wilson’s poetic approach to character gets especially florid with Caesar, the ironically named lawman played with a boxer’s snarl and stance by KenYatta Rogers. Review | August Wilson’s titanic ‘Gem of the Ocean’ sets sail at Round House 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

At the end, he made a claim for what he calls “poetic science”: the notion that a Keats and a Newton, listening to each other, “might hear the galaxies sing.” Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z

This may be an extreme reading of Paterson's poetic contract. Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z

Many of the poets of the generation after Yeats turned their backs on symbolism and looked to either reject traditional poetic language or use it in new ways. Poster poems: Roses 2011-04-08T10:04:54Z

With an easygoing candor, Sting waxed poetic about his songwriting process, admitted a love for country music and musical theater and shared the conception story of many songs. Sting strips down his sound, melts crowd 2011-12-06T19:36:03Z

Mr. Pace produced some exquisite colors particularly in the poetic moments, and there was humor and bite in the scherzos and folk-inflected passages. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

“With the seasonal thing, it feels like very poetic,” says Bowman, who is trained in both methodologies and finds Your Color Style to be easier. What hue looks best on you? Color analysis is back to help us obsess over our personal identities. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

I don’t know how I would feel watching this film now, not being stoned, but at the time it seemed like a really romantic portrayal of a poetic artist. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

But I do think that there is something poetic about it ushering you to sleep, or it being the last thing you watch before you go to sleep. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Australian director Cate Shortland's drama is overflowing with such poetic visual touches, conjuring up a fairytale landscape of long shadows, wafting curtains and waving fronds. Lore – review 2013-02-21T21:40:01Z

In a slightly more poetic touch, no opportunity is missed to show the freight trains that run past the Thompsons’ yard, their mournful whistles permanently blowing. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Price of Gold’ Revisits the Harding-Kerrigan Story 2014-01-15T22:56:24Z

The vibranium in Captain America's shield comes from that land, and there's a poetic rectitude in the notion of someone with African ancestry wiedlng it. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

As the show’s introductory panel-text eloquently puts it, Bravo’s work emphasized “a poetic sense of light, composition, and perspective that privileged mood and metaphor over documentation.” Photographers transcend in 2 new Frye shows 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

What you can ultimately see in “Airless Spaces” is that the eye for the poetic and the uncanny that gained Ms. Kurland fame in the ’90s runs in the family. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Returning Winter to her natural home is a poetic ending to her 16-year journey and we couldn’t think of a better way to lay her spirit to rest,” Powell said. Florida aquarium creates legacy for famed Winter the Dolphin 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

The Tazara railway appears to operate in a state of happy, chaotic denial, and its officials are masters in the art of poetic obfuscation. African Railway and The Edible Guardian 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z

"Bready" is a poetic way of saying you taste the grains used in the beer. To Pair With That Thanksgiving Bird, Consider Beer 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

And this is what Murnane achieves, again and again, through his carefully shaped sentences, the prosaic becoming poetic along their length. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Discussing the choice of repertory for the tour, Ms. Lefèvre said that while “Giselle” was “a perfect and poetic” illustration of French style, “Orpheus” was equally representative of the company today. Paris Opera Ballet Visits U.S. for First Time Since ’96 2012-07-08T03:53:12Z

When aroused, the characters "talk nasty" but they also employ an elevated poetic diction to dignify base urges, like the shepherds in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z

A ruched mini dress becomes poetic with a generous organza skirt in umber and built-in cape in heather blue. Missioni turns creative page; Liberatore mixes real, virtual 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

The movie’s interrogation of young black masculinity feels as timely as it does specific to Chiron, and its hauntingly poetic execution has already made a splash at festivals. Here Are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2016 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Her style of writing — stark and sometimes poetic — befits her subject. Review | Qandeel Baloch was a social media star in Pakistan. A new book explores her life and murder. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The genuinely funny ideas — a cheerleading routine with film-stock pompoms — tend not to be developed, and too many of the sequences are poetic in a vague, inscrutable sense. Dance Review: Catherine Galasso?s ?Bring on the Lumi?re!,? at Joyce SoHo 2012-01-31T23:19:58Z

In his heartbreaking song, Castles Made of Sand, written in Essaouira, Morocco, the crumbling medieval castle on the beach provides a poetic image of atrophy. Readers recommend: songs about disappointment – results 2013-03-14T14:00:00Z

In each, Williams balanced poetic colouring with the passionate drama of the fast finales, where Beethoven's quasi cadenza carried an explosive fire, while the Scriabin presto's myriad agitated strands were crystal clear. Llyr Williams – review 2012-07-18T16:46:24Z

His performance of the Chopin concerto, though rich with poetic grace, lovely sound and flashes of brilliance, was less confident. Review: Maurizio Pollini Reunites With the Philharmonic and Makes Up for Lost Time 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

On the track London Can Take It, the broadcast they sample extracts from is poetic in its depiction of a city bloody but unbowed from the effects of German bombing during the Blitz. New band of the day - Public Service Broadcasting (No 1,414) 2012-12-12T17:00:45Z

The playing-Death-at-chess metaphor of The Seventh Seal is so easily parodied that many forget, or never find out, how nimble, poetic and drily funny Bergman’s existential fantasy is. Streaming: curate your own Max von Sydow season 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

For one, Colangelo and Gyllenhaal wanted to dramatize the elusive and subjective feeling of poetic inspiration, not an easy thing to pull off cinematically. Hollywood Has Long Turned to Novelists for Help. But Poets? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Within the apparent spontaneity there is a highly conscious and disciplined poetic technique at work. Poem of the week: H?m (noun) by Jen Hadfield 2010-07-05T11:11:00Z

“But, actually, the poetic and political content is, I think, very enduring.” ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

This sliver of a play, small in construction but big in heart, transposes some of the poetic realism of the great Russian writer to an English country garden in the 1970s. Early Days – review 2013-06-19T16:23:44Z

When his works touched on contemporary life and politics they did so with poetic subservience to the prevailing regime. The Week Ahead: Oct. 16 ? 22 2011-10-14T16:46:11Z

Like the best children’s literature, Saint-Exupéry’s book is bittersweet, and even touches upon tragedy, but it also has a poetic grace and many touches of surreal humor — few of which are in evidence here. Review: ‘The Little Prince,’ a Lumbering Circus 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

The film is enjoyable and was warmly received but Vacth, undeniably a magnetic screen presence, is almost a contrived caricature of the sullen poetic French teen, chain-smoking Gauloises. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z

Earlier this year, Robert Downey Jr. declared himself “her new biggest fan” and waxed poetic about her raw and vulnerable performance as a woman who gets drawn into addiction along with her partner, Cherry. For 23-year-old Ciara Bravo, ‘Cherry’ is a star-making role 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Galgut’s formidable talent as a novelist transforms the facts of Forster’s life into art, which is poetic justice given Forster’s efforts to make stories and novels more meaningful and satisfactory than life itself. Review: ‘Arctic Summer’ by Damon Galgut, a fictional biography of E.M. Forster

Mr. Morris’s choreography deconstructs and distills the poetic legend with charm and taste. Review: From Mark Morris, a Tale of Love Refracted and Multiplied 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Sydney Smith illustrates the small, concrete moments of a summer day with poetic clarity: an open window, a man going down the road on a bicycle, the sun on wooden floorboards. Best children’s books to read and share this month 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

He took a richly poetic and pensive approach to the slow movement. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Reeves later would direct Cloverfield as well as Let Me In, which, like Super 8, is a poetic rendering of preadolescent anguish in a horror-film setting. Secret's Out 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z

The architecture critic Martin Filler said of her work: “Her meditative view of the building art provides a means for expressing poetic impulses about humanity’s place in the natural, rather than man-made, environment.” Where to See — Really See — the Art of Maya Lin 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Urban planners call such tracks desire lines — a poetic technical term. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Emerson’s poetic theory experienced some alteration,” reads another. Perspective | Summer reading shouldn’t be a chore 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

He renders this poetic service over a typically unassuming, slightly syncopated foundation that changes course only when it modulates into a chorus that barely qualifies as one. The genius of Elbow, the band Coldplay wishes it could be 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Perhaps part of what is so appealing, so fascinating about “Mad Men” is the refusal of bourgeois ordinariness, the struggle against it, in all of its poetic and mundane and tragic forms. Cultural Studies: On ?Mad Men,? The Allure of Messy Lives 2010-07-30T21:05:00Z

But as the surviving objects bear witness, preservation can be a sadly poetic concept. Object Lessons: The New Museum Explores Why We Keep Things 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

While the poetic lighting dims, as if to signal an end, the two conjure a new beginning in a transporting call-and-response, a sound between a growl and a wail flowing from their bodies. Review: A Fierce Clarity of Vision in ‘J’ai Pleuré Avec les Chiens’ 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

He was a devoted practitioner of the high style, committed to a loftily intellectual sense of the poetic vocation, with an encyclopedic range of historical and literary references embedded in syntactically knotty lines. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Odetta recognized, as most Dylan fans hadn’t yet, that Dylan’s true brilliance lay beyond the political, in the realm of the playful and the poetic. Listen to Odetta Cover Dylan 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s all so Hollywood, so poetic, so dramatic,” Margaret Lyons wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Saturday: Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds on HBO 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

The scene was definitely under the microscope for quite some time—understandably so—but it was poetic and beautiful. Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

“I can be poetic, poetic, poetic,” Wolfe said, “but then at a certain point it’s like, what are we doing here?” A Composer Shifts Her Focus to Climate, With Help From Children 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

As a teenager Eliot was Muldoon's first poetic catalyst, "but that was also, in a way, tied up with song," he says. Paul Muldoon: a life in poetry 2013-03-31T05:59:01Z

She is invested in the potential of poetic language to conceal even as it reveals aspects of herself, and of the political Zeitgeist that her music warily confronts. On the Hypnotic “Room 25,” Noname Comes of Age 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

At this, listeners might think of “Serial,” or of many subsequent popular whodunits that end with philosophizing and a poetic “hmm.” “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

While listening to the Wuorinen works on Saturday, which included “Adagio,” “Intrada” and “Scherzo,” I recalled Michael Brown’s recent concert of piano music by George Perle, sometimes described as the “poetic voice of atonal composition.” Music Review: Peter Serkin Brings Musical Abstraction to 92nd Street Y 2014-05-12T21:40:29Z

Characteristically, Williams's prose is much less self-consciously "poetic", much more idiomatic, than that of his predecessors. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

“There’s something sort of grim and poetic about it,” he said. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Was Their Ticket. Then 2020 Happened. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The lyrics are as dramatic and poetic as ever – "I've carved my name on the livers of my lovers," he sings at one point – and he isn't short of tunes. Carl Bar?t ? review 2010-10-25T20:45:00Z

Here’s his answer: though the Library describes the job with big words — he “serves as the nation’s official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans” — in practice the Poet Laureate doesn’t do too much. Who Is Charles Wright, the New Poet Laureate? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

But De Frutos has a gift for crafting poetic, sophisticated dance, and has successfully collaborated on several big productions. De Frutos and Pet Shop Boys reach for the moon 2011-03-09T21:29:01Z

The screenplay by Mr. King and Dani Valent too often wanders off into poetic vagueness. Movie Review: Braden King?s ?Here? Raises Questions of Philosophy 2012-04-12T21:55:25Z

An influential work of poetic theory ever since its publication more than 20 years ago, it’s hardly a natural candidate for a musical adaptation. Review: Ben Goldberg’s ‘Orphic Machine’ Influenced by Poetry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

But I refuse to believe it's just me who hears the words "poetic drama" and first imagines something slowly woven from pastel shades of twee. Poetry in Motion: why poetic drama has something new to say 2011-03-02T13:10:18Z

In his spare time, Bentley also produced “a rich, if helter-skelter, study of vanished Greek drama,” recovering along the way “a lost rule of poetic meter.” ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished

Dave Chappelle is the only artist alive who would close a comedy show by finding a ray of hope in our current political situation through a poetic recounting of the tragic murder of Emmett Till. Review: Dave Chappelle Sizes Up America at Radio City 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

“It’s really rambunctious and punk rock and loud and nasty — there’s humor in it and all this sweet poetic softness,” he said. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

The artist Dan Williams, whom Hosseini enlisted to create a visual narrative to accompany his spare, poetic text, uses watercolors to evoke something universal. Khaled Hosseini Has Written an Illustrated Tribute to Fallen Refugees 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

From a coat in dawn mauve to a dress with a stardust of embroidery, the collection was as wearable as it was poetic. Chanel: Vintage for Today? 2012-07-03T17:53:07Z

You would read the end of a chapter and just have to put it down and think about what you just read because it’s so poetic. Chelsea Handler Needs More Jennifer Coolidge in Her Life 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

But Laurens goes further, adding her personal observations and associative, almost poetic interpretations of the material. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The writing is undeniably magnificent, managing to say so much in so few words, but never feeling particularly poetic. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-04-24T17:31:30Z

Trump’s previous annual addresses were relatively anodyne things: forward-looking, poetic, a world away from the typo-riddled, all-caps rage that constitutes his daily public addresses on Twitter. The cheers, glares and ‘Oh no!’ at the State of the Union showed just how bitterly divided this Congress is 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

At his Act III wedding celebration, however, love makes him not just heroic but chivalrous and poetic, too. ‘Coppélia’ Returns to American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Atwood, who joined Wattpad's community of nine million writers and readers in June, will be judging the prize, for which competitors must enter 10 poems as a collection, each demonstrating a different poetic form. The Attys: new digital poetry prize to be judged by Margaret Atwood 2012-08-02T11:57:58Z

Julien Baker sang richly poetic songs of trauma and redemption, moving from almost unbearable fragility to confessional strength. SXSW: From Exclusive Performances to Cellphone Souvenirs 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

“If what I proposed was understandable and at the same time a little wild and poetic, that was the choice,” Mr. Drexler said by telephone from Madrid. Shakira Conquers New Arenas 2010-10-16T05:23:00Z

A condition that, precisely because it is poetic and elegiac, makes history itself the stuff of life experience. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

But underneath the beats are gems of lyrics: dark, poetic one-liners with a heaviness that might raise your eyebrow. Singing the blues, Ellie Goulding turns darkness into light 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Whether this represents summary or merely poetic justice is left to the audience to decide. The Matchbox – review 2012-06-24T17:15:01Z

Tidhar is both clean and poetic, elegantly sparse but deeply evocative. Review | ‘By Force Alone’ is an exciting and wickedly funny reimagining of the King Arthur legend 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

The Vis-à-Vis Society's "Hello, Again, Hello": Not exactly dance, but it does include some choreographed moves — along with film, song and "live poetic research." You can watch dance this weekend til you drop 2011-05-10T00:53:04Z

But Mr. Fanaka’s work is known for eschewing the poetic realism associated with the movement in favor of genre work. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s poetic triptych of queer black manhood in the slums of Miami, isn’t didactic; it simply breathes in the fears and desires of its hero, Chiron, and asks us to taste his oxygen. The Oscars and the Election 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Our recreation on a Tokyo weekend was to walk around and see all the exhibits, all the small galleries with these poetic, perfect shows,” Mr. Alesch said. Journey to a Center of the Earth 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

That's one reason this exceptional hanging scroll is easily characterized as poetic. Chinese paintings at LACMA captivate with their delicacy 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

But the poetic achievement is outside this: no poetry is simply the description of a state of mind or psyche. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z

“Rectify,” the show and its characters, typically speak in poetic circles. Poetic crime drama “Rectify” courts “Serial” fans with hard-nosed companion podcast 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Friedman’s poetic novel explores mourning, memory and motherhood in a future Louisiana that has been ravaged by climate change. When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

On April 3, the Brooklyn Museum will showcase the first-ever major exhibition dedicated to the artist’s written word, “Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks,” a nod to his prolific poetic ambitions. Inside the Mind of Jean-Michel Basquiat 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Our mother was almost in sole charge of three small children, and while a poetic spirit herself, was never overly enamored of the Beat scene. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Soloists often sing the same melody two times, once with banal lyrics about their day at the beach, and once tending toward the poetic, the cosmic, the climatic. Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

But a song recital is also a kind of musicalized poetry reading, and Mr. Kaufmann’s performance was ennobled by poetic elegance and restraint. Music Review: Jonas Kaufmann in Recital at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-21T20:52:50Z

Photography, she argues, finds its power in juxtapositions and combinations, in detecting patterns, drawing poetic and emotional connections, and then reshuffling it all to reveal new ways of seeing. Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Gislinge played with a poetic touch but a relatively narrow color spectrum; Mr. Bjornkjaer, who appeared nervous, sometimes forced his sound, lending it a dry and metallic edge. Review: Danish Piano Trio Shares Well-Loved Sounds and Little-Known Gems 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Alternately dreamy, poetic and bracing, the score was a kind of musical depiction of one of Horner's passions. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The translators went back to the drawing board, and came up with something less poetic but more protective of the dance concerns. Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

The Shape of Water is quieter and more poetic, largely thanks to the power of its actors. Review: The Shape of Water Is a Poetic Love Letter to a Monster 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

It is poetic and carries with it a feeling of the universal; as you listen to him read it, it seems natural that his daughter would become such a great story teller herself. Stories We Tell: Sarah Polley’s Meta Masterpiece 2013-05-10T03:30:03Z

And while there is dialogue, words add up to less than the deliberate pacing of each scene and the poetic power of Di Girolamo’s frame. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

"We Are Here," titled after and inspired by the posthumous, poetic self-portraits in Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," is a haunting and powerful piece of documentary theater. Masks and masquerades that reveal the self 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

She often uses poetic turns of phrase to describe everything from how her daily morning run went to how she gets ready for a performance of Beethoven. ‘Wild Child’ of Violin on a Meteoric Rise 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Stricken with fragility, it combines affecting poetic lyrics and piercing sorrow with something ethereal that drags you into an achingly alluring world. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z

They engage in poetic dialogues with angular bits of mirror and rock placed on the floor. Ginger Wolfe-Suarez engages the sense of smell 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

At the Rolling Stones concert, there’s something poetic about the heat index hitting 92 at dusk. Review | The Rolling Stones want to teach you how to live forever 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

Even his poetic, gnomic lyrics feel like a nod to the pageantry of the day. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z

In 2017, the filmmaker Theo Anthony released “Rat Film,” an improbably poetic, intellectually dazzling, politically astute documentary on the seemingly prosaic topic of rats and their place in the modern urban landscape. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t only Anderson’s eminence that attracted him but the writer’s poetic style. Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z

When characters, especially Cordell, talk about their deeper feelings, they tend to shift into improbably poetic flights of diction. Review: In ‘The Hot Wing King,’ a New Recipe for a Family 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

There were lovely, poetic moments throughout and plenty of virtuosic dazzle, as with the octaves of No. 10. Music Review: A Lang Lang Solo Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-30T21:17:22Z

You described Trump in an almost poetic way on CBS News, in response to Trump attempting to be a more conventional politician: “a substantive fool.” Larry Wilmore goes to Washington: On roasting Beltway egos, Obama’s final year, and why Donald Trump is so dangerous 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The lines grant her authority, particularly in moments when she imparts tidy—though vastly poetic—adages, but they occasionally box in her language. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

But now we no longer need to justify this poetic aside. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: James Franco on Adapting Novels and Multitasking 2013-05-21T19:42:37Z

It reprises Saba’s slithering and poetic flows, which breathe out a profound sense of narrative. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2022 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

He, too, brings French cuisine back to America, by the quiet means of several classic cookbooks: poetic, soulful and steeped in an almost devotional practice. A tiny Frenchwoman has had a huge impact on food in America 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

It was a poetic and spiritually uplifting point, made gently, as is Brown’s style. On a cold night, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence offers the balm of human warmth 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker Charles Burnett paints a surreal portrait of a family in this poetic drama, which was Burnett’s third feature. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Coded Bias’ and ‘Tina’ 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

“You look very poetic,” Ferguson offered, pointing at his guest’s burgeoning sideburns. Craig Ferguson’s “The Late Late Show” Will Be Missed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

It was a poetic notion, a coloring book, a three-minute cartoon; now it’s a small piece of my soul. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z

But this is also the period that produced the Fourth Piano Concerto, one of Beethoven’s most poetic works. Music Review: Norwegian Pianist Takes a Deeper Dip Into Beethoven 2011-04-08T22:00:21Z

The poetic plant list ranges from asters to zinnias, from wallflowers and cosmos to gillyflowers, tree mallows, trailing lobelias, globe amaranths, toadflax and perennial sage. At New York Botanical Garden, Time to Smell the Impressionists’ Roses 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In its citation, the judging panel said Finney "finds poetic joy and a political imagination in family wisdom, workaday living and erotic syllables that sing the body of women." 'Salvage the Bones' a National Book Award winner 2011-11-17T18:03:21Z

A singer performing “The Wound-Dresser” must be able to convey the cadences and rhythms of the American language, no less so in Whitman’s elegantly poetic words. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Lift-off is poetic, the inevitable return to Earth prosaic: Holmes dodges throughout between sublimity and a rueful, comical bathos. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z

Like Moon Frye and a lot of girls with big feelings and poetic inclinations, I kept diaries as a teenager. ‘Kid 90’ and the Days When Even Wild TV Teens Had Privacy 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The symbolists were bent on challenging the poetic status quo, and vers libre was one of the great technical innovations to emerge. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

What a fraught act of poetic license, and it won’t be the last in this surprising novel about the plight of displaced people. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

"Her paintings are easy to understand but touch people in ways that are profound.... She's something other than a great painter, but she's certainly an interesting and poetic figure." A 'real' portrait of 'Big Eyes' artist Margaret Keane 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Lowell’s script is certainly poetic, and its questions concerning cruelty and civilized life are ripe for inquiry. | 'Benito Cereno': ?Benito Cereno? From Horizon Theater Rep - Review 2011-10-04T21:55:39Z

Cash narrates “In the Wild Light” in a voice that is observant, evocative and poetic, which is perfect, as he is becoming a poet, and samples of his poetry are shared with the reader. A Beautiful Mind 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Beats fall with considerable regularity within the internal divisions of phrase and clause, so that a sense of poetic rhythm accumulates as you go. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Along with an illumination of how prejudicial interpretations of these clauses failed them both — and particularly, of women facing physical attack by men — there are moments of poetic insight into how the Constitution works. Review | Seeing Broadway’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ feels like a patriotic act. Here’s why. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

“So I don’t think I’m exceptional: I’m in a special situation, but it’s a very literary, poetic situation.” Writing in English, Novelists Find Inventive New Voices 2014-04-25T12:00:01Z

Harrison Birtwistle had embedded David Harsent's starkly poetic libretto in music that wove beauty and visceral force together almost impossibly tightly. The Minotaur – review 2013-01-18T15:08:55Z

Roger Federer arrives at the French Open tennis tournament this weekend not just as the king of the courts and an icon of class, but also a poetic inspiration with a racket. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Such is the premise for one of the most poetic and influential films ever made. The Conformist : No 13 2010-10-20T10:42:00Z

The bright lights of Times Square are a poetic match for his bold fare. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Her work is versatile — spanning sculpture, collage, installation and more — and distinctive for its deft, even poetic employment of found objects and its variations on motifs from Indian culture. Now Visiting From India, an ‘Ancestor’ for Everyone 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Combining visual and literary forms allowed me to jump between the present and the past, the factual and the poetic, the documentary and the imagined. The Bracing Honesty of “Belonging,” a Graphic Memoir About German Identity 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Here we see Atwood at the height of her poetic powers: her imagery made tangible with sound,” Emilia Phillips writes, reviewing the book alongside two other volumes of poetry. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Julie Bertuccelli's poetic tale of loss and starting over stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and an enormous, sprawling fig tree that seems to be watching over a broken family in the Australian countryside. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-08-10T21:51:05Z

Moreover, she blends poetic, evocative imagery and a passionate voice with a willingness to get down and dirty. First sight: K Michelle 2010-06-24T21:30:00Z

References and allusions stack up and ricochet around in a way that is evocative and even at times poetic. Theater Review: ?Samuel & Alasdair,? From Mad Ones, at New Ohio Theater 2012-02-13T00:54:00Z

She probably gave Lincoln his poetic sense that you see in speeches. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z

Conversely, Bellini, the offspring of the celebrated Venetian artist Jacopo Bellini, excelled in depicting infinite, atmospheric landscapes in which his poetic imagery and painterly techniques evoked softer, more emotional responses. ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ Review: A Family Affair 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

Robert Yeoman's cinematography, intentionally or not, captures the golden glow of Homer's paintings with a poetic, elegiac power. Moonrise Kingdom – review 2012-05-26T23:10:01Z

Among the other proper hymns are “God Be With You,” “This Is My Father’s World,” and as a valediction, “Whither Must I Wander?,” which features Mr. Douglas’s horn at its most poetic. Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z

Bukowski’s poetic fascination with his women and his own bad behavior is less interesting to us than to him, and Ms. Careless never becomes more than a hybrid vision of sex, comfort and betrayal. Dance Review: A Boozy Word Slinger and His Obscure Objects of Desire 2011-04-24T22:07:38Z

And it was an elegiac, poetic and beautiful finish. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Lepage compares the revolving stage to a carousel or a magician's hat: "It feels very much as if we're all playing around in a playpen until something interesting, mature, exciting, poetic comes out." Director Robert Lepage: risking it all 2012-10-08T17:31:23Z

The Fourth Concerto is one of Beethoven’s most poetic creations, and few pianists could be better suited to it in that vein than Ms. Uchida. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

He studied law and architecture in Europe before making a reputation in France as a production designer and a pioneer director of the style that became known as poetic realism. Went the Day Well? 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The epigram is one of the briefest of poetic forms, but, as the derivation of the name might suggest, it is also one of the most enduring. Poster poems: Epigrams 2010-10-07T07:34:00Z

Brown is poetic and passionate, but another of the book’s flaws is the self-seriousness that infects its prose. What It Means to Be the ‘Token’ Black Kid in a Rich, White World 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

The phrase means to lead a horse in a circle on the end of a long rein held by its trainer, and it certainly makes a neat poetic metaphor. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z

He cleaned his fingernails with a fish knife while discussing the venture that he had conceived, organized, and funded as a picture striking to the eye of a poetic magazine publisher. I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel 2013-06-03T15:32:00Z

Others refer to it, in a more secular but still poetic mood, as the Departure; and still others, in the current fashion for naming big bad things by the date they happen, Oct. Artful 'Leftovers' on HBO leaves viewers wanting more 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

This poetic note is sounded halfway through the first act of the generally prosy new musical “Far From Heaven,” which opened on Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z

After such a delay, though, her version seems a bit of a disappointment, lacking in the combination of poetic inwardness and dramatic purpose that is the essence of this concerto. Elgar: Violin Concerto; etc - review 2010-12-16T22:15:00Z

Grim, funny, lonely, at times even poetic, the new graphic novel “The White Donkey” gets at war in a way we’ve rarely seen. A more honest Iraq War story looks like this: “Sometimes the Marine Corps kind of sucks” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

That, in fact, an awareness of scientific inaccuracies in literature was and is another form of poetic appreciation. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z

It’s poetic that an art gallery named Bridge Productions is hosting an exhibition called “The Veil.” ‘The Veil’ exhibition at Bridge Productions spans ideas of what’s seen and unseen 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

“It’s a side that the public hasn’t seen. There was a softer side to her. ... She had a poetic taste in music and clothes and literature.” Cate Edwards: A steadfast daughter to John Edwards, despite pain and scandal

Every work exhibited in “Interior World: Contemporary Furniture” is technically a home furnishing, but the seven-artist Popcorn Gallery show adopts a poetic sense of the word “interior.” Review | In the galleries: Breaching the border between art and furniture 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Pei, Kevin Roche and a handful of others were mining a similar vein in the years Kahn was most active, even if their buildings rarely approached the poetic force of his. A vast Louis Kahn retrospective lands at the San Diego Museum of Art 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

But this brief poetic haunting quickly dissipated once it became clear that the blurry images were our own doing and that nearly everyone was looking at and photographing images of themselves or others. Watch Out: You’re in Ai Weiwei’s Surveillance Zone 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

In the process, Chang, the poet laureate of Brooklyn, weaves powerful narratives and uses various poetic forms to create a momentous landscape. Review | Joy Harjo’s stunning new collection and other best poetry collections this month 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Much as for a passport photograph, he adopted exactly the same angle for each picture: the effect is striking yet poetic, "an encounter between an umbrella and a sewing machine". Architectural appeal remains as Italy's deconsecrated churches rise again 2013-01-01T12:33:38Z

But it also highlighted the commercial opportunities for poetic video games made by small teams. Talented Designers Stream Into M.F.A. Video Game Programs 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“There’s an incredibly beautiful, digressive, poetic sensibility to Bolaño that we realized we needed to let back in the room,” Mr. Bockley said. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Joseph’s embracing compassion for his characters and their dark journeys through the streets of Baghdad and beyond easily redeems the minor flaws of some overstated or archly poetic writing. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Rajiv Joseph?s Play at the Mark Taper Forum 2010-05-14T23:58:00Z

The sensibility of the visceral piece "Amarillo," which runs at On the Boards through Sunday, is in sync with much of serious Mexican art: raw, tragic, unsparing, poetic, vibrant. Teatro Línea de Sombra's 'Amarillo' an unsparing look at immigrants' journey 2012-11-09T23:43:04Z

These photos capture the often unseen poetic details. In an age of worsening fires and floods, museums are reinventing themselves — and their mechanical rooms 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

At this point you might grant that there are lots of interesting and poetic connections to be discovered by the thoughtful and sympathetic viewer, yet still wonder, What’s it all about? Review: Pierre Huyghe Mixes Stones and Water for Roof Garden at the Met 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Call it poetic justice or merely good sense, but Lionsgate would be wise to snap up Jenkins and give her the keys to an even bigger franchise. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

The walk itself becomes a kind of sentence for which Mirra’s photos and short, poetic texts serve as punctuation. For Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, the message is woven into the art 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

It's rich in joy and comedy, but also grave and austere and poetic. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z

Revealed in these works, as well as in the artist’s complementary series of photographic self-portraits, is the poetic passage of hours, days, years. Looking Back at Roman Opalka's Attempt to Paint Every Number 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The lyrics were poetic, of course, but his musical settings were ingenious, with shifting chords and deceptively simple melodies. Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter of love, death and philosophical longing, dies at 82 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Eric and Molly Glasgow, the farm’s owners, decided to go poetic with the name instead of giving it a local tie-in. The Big Cheeses From the Vineyard 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Once upon a time, before the Internet, the Communist propaganda machine took extraordinary poetic license in its production of icons. Jack Ma, Li Na, and Chinese Celebrity 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

It's truly a crime that his poetic, soulful records sank without a trace, forcing him to turn his back on the music industry and scrape a living working in construction in Detroit. LA film festival: sweet surprise follows Searching for Sugar Man screening 2012-06-20T17:20:04Z

Her piquant, poetic sadness is triggered by clippings from a haircut, beautiful sunsets that won't last forever, and many other things. 'Melancholy Play' is earnest, early Sarah Ruhl 2011-07-28T19:56:47Z

"You see! It has a poetic flow!" he exclaims, before adding quickly: "I swear to you, I haven't said those words for years and years and years. I wasn't sure I'd remember them." Patrick Stewart: 'I can store emotions. No experience is ever wasted' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Not all of the fragments earn their stage time — some strain for poetic effect, others seem negligible on their own — but collectively they wield a greater force. 'different words' reveals promising playwright in Kimber Lee 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, some of the work feels like it reinforces stereotypical roles for young Latinos _ but the women manage to stretch out and be poetic, playful or pensive. Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The way it is written is wonderfully poetic and original. Dear Match Book: Hidden Gems 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

This is a collection that marks departures as well as arrivals and in which Longley celebrates, as he has done throughout his poetic life, his father. A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley 2011-03-20T00:02:02Z

Meanwhile, on CBS’s The Great Indoors, a group of diverse millennials gets chided by their white boss for being too “sheltered,” and on NBC’s Timeless, a black adventurer waxes poetic about Michael Jordan. There's No Such Thing as 'Too Much Diversity' on TV 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

They present themselves as visual images and as poetic building blocks. Lawrence Weiner's work at Regen Projects: It's all spelled out 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

I wanted the film to be poetic but also to tell it really simply. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

When asked about the differences in style between the two playwrights, Mr. Thureen said, “We used to say: ‘Hannah’s funnier but I’m more poetic.’ ” Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z

The game was Seattle against Green Bay, which he changed with some poetic license to San Diego and Denver. Dean Wareham trades in N.Y. urbane for West Coast chill 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

In language that is by turns blunt and poetic, crudely funny and incantatory, Ms. Okpokwasili conjures and probes this adolescent friendship, a jumble of insults, anger and love. Theater Review: In ‘Bronx Gothic,’ Lessons About Growing Up Female 2014-01-15T22:27:44Z

Daphne is not an emblem of poetic inspiration, but “an ordinarily pretty girl,” replicated throughout eternity as an endless sequence of equally ordinary pretty girls. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

She is the first of seven singers who dress identically and whose arias follow introductions in the form of poetic texts prerecorded by Abramovic. Review: Marina Abramovic Summons Maria Callas in ‘7 Deaths’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

For Thomas and Frost that entailed a fidelity to the phrase rather than to the metrical foot, to the rhythms of speech rather than those of poetic conventions, to what Frost liked to call "cadence". Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

Despite poetic glosses, garden and pavilion culture was the handiwork of an elitist society that wanted no contact with the larger world -- that was, instead, in willed retreat from social realities. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z

This septuagenarian journalist turned author has become the poet laureate of the anti-globalisation movement by adding a laconic, poetic voice to non-fiction. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z

The objections to "Klinghoffer" have mainly revolved around the sheer poetic eloquence of Alice Goodman's libretto and Adams' score, which allows the hijackers to seem momentarily sympathetic. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

There’s certainly a history of personal monologists telling embellished stories of their own lives, with the understanding of their audience that they’re using poetic license. This American Life?s Apple Retraction: The Danger of Truthiness 2012-03-16T19:32:44Z

Through the hardness, Leyshon evokes nature and the seasons with a poetic sensibility. The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon – review 2012-06-15T21:55:06Z

Sometimes she gets irritated, as when reading Howards End and noting Forster's "unsuccessful poetic passages", places where "he is lecturing us", and his "childish religious beliefs: God must be like Forster". From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

But in his new book, “Discordia,” which he is self-publishing this month, Saman collects images that convey a more personal and poetic account of his experience in the Middle East. Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

I now knew his 15-year plan, his thoughts on marriage and past relationships, how he spent his summers on the farm, his poetic prowess and his irrational hatred of the movie “Frozen.” If I Expect It to End, Will It Hurt Less? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

This was a beautifully produced feature, all rich textures – voices, music, audience noise – composed into poetic layers. Open Mic Night 2010-06-16T06:59:00Z

The poetic is not merely beauty in language, but beauty in incoherence, in resistance to common sense. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Though her diction was often unclear, Stravinsky is partly at fault for the sometimes awkward way he set the clever but archly poetic English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z

Sherman ventured into the cemetery, the one about which the Stage Manager waxes poetic. ‘Our Town’ debuted in 1938, but it’s still staged everywhere. A new book explains why it’s so timeless. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Douglas is a blunt instrument, a fiction forged with humanist ideals and a degree of poetic fancy. ‘The Shadow of Violence’ Review: Behold, the Bad Man (Again) 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

All along the right bank stood poetic ruins. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The American director wasn't the only one being poetic on Sunday night. Baftas 2014: Certainties and surprises 2014-02-17T03:42:19Z

Over all, though, her performance of these poetic pieces lacked an essential spark of communication. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Notes as Delicate as a Crane’s Legs 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

In 1968, he argued for the termination of the Festival because it didn’t feature “poetic” cinema. Jonas Mekas, Champion of the “Poetic” Cinema 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

"The Dance of Reality" is something of a psychological and emotional memoir, based on the filmmaker's boyhood in the small Chilean coastal town of Tocopilla, but building to something more fantastic and poetic. Alejandro Jodorowsky's renewal continues with 'The Dance of Reality' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

In “The Fox Was Ever the Hunter,” her latest work to be published in English, this concern takes on an encyclopedic, yet characteristically poetic, bent. ‘The Fox Was Ever the Hunter,’ by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

I don’t know how to get it out in a poetic way.” At Home With Sheila Bridges: Weeding Out the Riffraff 2013-07-17T23:00:39Z

This heightens the psychological and poetic sense that somehow she contains grottoes and rocky recesses within her. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z

Have more poetic words ever been spoken in the English language? 'Downton Abbey' recap: The proposal we've all been waiting for 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

His poetic lyrics about the drug scene and poverty are tinged with "anti-establishment blues" and led to a cult following in apartheid-era South Africa - which he learned of only decades later. Montreux jazz festival draws Prince, Sting, Marcus Miller 2013-04-18T11:41:50Z

The transition from film to opera was shrewdly engineered by Mr. Catán to capitalize on the poetic ingredient’s suitability for musical treatment. Opera Review: Pablo Neruda and His Mailman, This Time Sung 2010-12-14T13:59:19Z

As the third act progresses, creeping paranoia seeps into even the most innocuous moment, so the film functions as clammy thriller as well as poetic agitprop. Cannes 2013: Heli – review 2013-05-16T13:24:08Z

Biggest Upset: The inclusion of Nick Cave on the festival lineup raised some eyebrows as to how, say, Red Hot Chili Pepper fans would react to Cave’s unique brand of darkly louring poetic rock. Coachella 2013: Recapping The Music Festival 2013-04-23T19:58:52Z

Instead he made this very experimental, poetic, black-and-white movie. Portrait of the artist: Robert Lepage, director 2010-12-06T22:29:00Z

His response was classic Shorter: indirect, poetic, but clear. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

He is the old man of the title and the author’s surrogate, a poetic soul just trying to wait it out until it’s all over. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Zelda writes in direct yet passionate prose, Fitzgerald with a poetic flair reminiscent of his fiction. Review | Revisiting the love story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in their own words 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

There were surprisingly few references to Rastafari, though the engaging DJ Big Youth tried to put that right with his poetic lyrics and wild dancing, frantically shaking his dreadlocks as he sang. Reggae Britannia ? review 2011-02-07T18:11:42Z

His wooden circles, curving baskets, poetic ladders and enigmatic containers are quiet and self-contained, and they don’t glare at you with the hyper-polish of machine-made metal minimalism or the narcissistic sheen of latter-day Pop. A sculptor’s work, seen in two and three dimensions 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Gaga’s lyrics are not particularly complex, but they can be weirdly poetic, chanted, as they often are, in perfect iambic pentameter: “I want your ugly, I want your disease,” she announced. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

It has a poetic logic that almost makes it look justified, and it's hard not to side with Yuko, who narrates the entire first section in a wounded yet eerily reasonable voice. Kanae Minato's 'Confessions' hits its mark with a vengeance 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

It is written in the same poetic language as If I Stay; beautiful, flowing, moving. Just One Day by Gayle Formnan - review 2013-03-12T15:00:00Z

"Nostalgia for the Light" is less a conventional documentary than a work of poetic imagination or a nontheistic spiritual meditation. "Nostalgia for the Light": A spectacular head-trip into Chile's Atacama Desert 2011-03-19T00:30:00Z

He could clearly be considered an “eccentric genius,” a “scientific genius” or a “technical genius,” she wrote, but was he also an “artistic genius” or a “poetic genius”? Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

This is not accomplished through any real comeuppance or reckoning, despite Rebecca’s poetic engagement with the myth of Icarus. In Rumaan Alam’s New Novel, Motherhood Lit Tackles Race, Adoption, and White Privilege 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Alexievich is a master at employing the withheld detail to undercut the unfiltered sentimentalism of a narrator, or adding a poetic sting to an otherwise prosaic entry. What Children Remember From the War 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

In Wilson’s brand of poetic realism, characters talk bluntly about the dollars-and-cents of living, the exact costs of food, rent, refrigerators. Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z

That voice is both dramatic and poetic, informational and expressive, collecting shards of observations and reminiscences, pushing unrelieved tensions to the fore and turning his story into a crisis of consciousness. “Ad Astra,” Reviewed: James Gray’s Masterwork of Personal Film in an Alien Setting 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Some have seen it as thin in substance, uncontrolled in method, too sweet in color and too “poetic.” Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83 2011-12-27T15:27:38Z

At the time it was published, opinion was divided on A Tale of Two Cities’ merits — yet another poetic manifestation of the novel’s opening highs and lows. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 6: A Tale of Two Cities 2012-01-31T18:00:47Z

As shapes, gestures and oppositions succeed one another, they build up to become a danced, poetic counterpart to the scientific scrutiny of sensations and ideas that was central to Socrates’ life. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z

It's poetic that the same actress plays the mother of both shows' lead characters. Judd Apatow: 'There's a narcissism to my characters' 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z

Inspired by the example of the avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, the Vogels began exhibiting a range of movies — experimental psychodramas, poetic documentaries, abstract animations, banned French bedroom farces and forgotten classics, complete with notes. A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s so thrilling,” he writes, “with all the boring certainty in poetry, to read someone who allows the most powerful poetic engine, not knowing, to push the imagination in the poem forward.” Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

They rarely play four chords when one will do, and they rock with minimalist fuss and fury, a solid foundation for Smith’s poetic lyrics. Concert review: Patti Smith at the Vic 2013-05-07T05:30:00Z

“Little Women” is just such a work of poetic smuggling: a movie made within the norms of the industry that also reflects Gerwig’s own personal artistic ideas, ideals, and obsessions. The Compromises of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Warren aside, even the most poetic phrasings often end up concealing an unpoetic argument: that a woman should be forced to birth a child because she asked for it. Perspective | The one point abortion rights activists need to keep making 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

His aptitude at rigorous observation went together with a poetic, highly sensitive response to nature. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z

“You can’t ignore its emotional power,” Ms. Craine said, adding that audiences respond to its “poetic meditation on the themes of the original, filtered through the experience of refugees and displaced people.” Coming to Chicago: A ‘Giselle’ That Speaks to the Present 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

But in the self-portrait Mr. Schick presented during the two evenings, mental acuity was always subservient to a larger poetic search that encompassed high degrees of theatricality, mystery and also humor. Music Review: Steven Schick Plays Stockhausen at the Miller Theater 2014-02-03T22:38:14Z

There is a humility in Nooteboom’s tone, a poetic reserve, that leaves room for the reader. Review | Buried deep in a disappointing Rembrandt and Velázquez show are two portraits that demand to be seen 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

There’s a shift from poetic, humanistic and spiritual themes, which perhaps seem too vague amid the current fashion for “data-driven” thinking. Review | In the galleries: Science expands nature art, on grand and minuscule scales 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

In fact, maybe it’s poetic that just as American explorations of outer space and the origins of the universe are diminishing, these new explorations of “inner space” and fetal origins are starting. Motherlode: Will Fetal Science Lead to Lawsuits? 2011-07-29T22:01:03Z

Her language is poetic even if her childhood wasn’t. Arrested at 12, She’s Now an Activist Fighting for Social Justice 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

The 28th season of the Olympic Music Festival in Quilcene got under way last weekend with a characteristically poetic and probing piano recital of "Night Music" by festival favorite Paul Hersh. Chamber music and cheeseburgers at Olympic Music Festival 2011-07-01T20:23:09Z

In this case, poetic metaphor loses too much in translation to the stage. Clash of poetry titans at Odd Duck Studio 2011-11-29T05:35:17Z

Readers will find plenty of poetic resonance in “Temple Grove,” although sometimes it comes at the expense of narrative flow. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z

She played 20 songs over nearly two hours, but every moment was taut, dramatic and filled with poetic meaning. Patti Smith soars at Neptune Theatre show | Concert review 2013-02-28T19:10:08Z

People who invent languages are exercising the poetic aspect of being human, trying to improve on things because we like a better mousetrap. Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto?Why Do We Love To Invent Languages? 2011-11-16T10:00:27Z

What’s more, it has taken on the tiresome contours of a Manichean choice: You’re either on the side of art or on the side of truth; gauzy poetic license or cold, hard facts. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

The Swedish Academy, the organization responsible for awarding the the prize, said Thursday that the songwriter “created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” according to Reuters. Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

She often thinks of the natural world in poetic terms: ‘Above the Waterfall’ review: A powerful tale of modern Appalachia 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Amid interviews with union leaders and historical footage of strikes, he interwove more poetic, decontextualized scenes of women gazing at birds overhead, or walking blindfolded through a bamboo forest. Im Heung-soon Explores the Horrors Women Endure in War 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The play is written with a poetic intensity, and if there are some silky loose strands these only add to its appeal. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn; The Taming of the Shrew; How Like an Angel – review 2012-07-07T23:05:44Z

He has a poetic side that needs developing. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

Using grout, Molly Zuckerman Hartung gives a small green abstract canvas a protective border of tiny stones and bits of glass to poetic effect. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

Plenty of children’s shows are cute but “City of Ghosts” is also beautiful, and its poetic wistfulness about Los Angeles would be at home on a premium cable drama. The Best TV Episodes of 2021 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

It’s the only part of his production when everything lapses into ballet cliché, with none of the telling details that turn the rest of this work into absorbingly poetic drama. Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Spurs American Ballet Theater to Work on the Details 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

But filtered through the Hungarian pianist’s poetic vision — and fleet fingers — storied works by Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann opened to reveal true greatness. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

On guitar, Ms. Thompson is insular and poetic, emphasizing mood and caress over technique. Savages, a London Band, Plays Three New York Clubs 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

But with an artist's heart, Witten describes painting graffiti in more poetic terms. 1970s NY graffiti artists still have urge to tag 2012-07-29T15:49:11Z

The Smithsonian American Art Museum devotes attention to The Art of Romaine Brooks, an artist who defied gender expectations not only in her own life, but also in her poetic and evocative portraits. Summer Arts Preview: NGA puts the varied works of Hubert Robert on display 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Two of these, the “Thaïs Pas de Deux” and “Awakening Pas de Deux,” choreographed by Frederick Ashton, proved the evening’s most poetic events. American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z

Of course, this has long been a hallmark of Ms. Weems’s photo installations, which are contemplative and stunningly poetic in their depictions of Black life. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s an unfussy portrait of a famously fussy king who finds tragic dignity in poetic language only after his impolitic behavior costs him his throne. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

But from the start he showed a poetic sensibility and probing musical curiosity. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

In these hard times for retail, the French designer went out on a limb with this collection of romantic, body-baring looks that looked to have been made for gender-bending flower children with poetic souls. Paris menswear designers break out Jesus sandals 2010-06-24T21:37:00Z

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe hiked here in 1779, receiving poetic inspiration from its many splendors — as did William Wordsworth, some 11 years later. Looking for the Sublime? It’s in This Swiss Valley 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

And along with the poetic, "It works on two levels" flourishes, we've also been adding "Did you see what I did there?" ones. Taylor Swift is just picking up where the Beatles left off 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Petit will receive the Elevating Circus award for “raising public awareness of the creative and poetic potential of circus arts,” according to a release. Oscars, Shmoscars: Presenting the American Circus Awards 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

But the best lieder put this economy to work, employing it to concentrate emotional punch and combine poetic textures and tones — the salt and the sweet. Review | At the Kennedy Center, songs you haven’t heard and cellphones you wish you hadn’t 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

She described Cusk as a "peerless narcissist" and the book as "acres of poetic whimsy and vague literary blah, a needy, neurotic mandolin solo of reflections on child sacrifice and asides about drains." Review of 'blah' memoir wins Hatchet Job prize 2013-02-12T20:01:11Z

Cedar said there was "something poetic" in the fact that Israeli and Iranian films were both nominated. Iranian film in running for foreign language Oscar 2012-01-24T18:43:16Z

The closing credits begin unspooling over an image of a little girl’s shoes catching fire and burning up, a grimly poetic metonymy of the Gallardos’ tragic back story. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Follow the Money 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

It's time for a little poetic ancestor worship. Poster poems: Ancestors 2010-05-28T13:48:00Z

The handout on poetic devices, face-up and forgotten on my students' desks, is how we got here: synesthesia as literary device, describing one sense in terms of another. Confessions of a synesthete: What it's like experiencing the alphabet in full color 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

A portrait of the artist as political and poetic ingénue, “What You Have Heard Is True” is just such a response, a riveting account of how she made good on that conviction. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Written as a sequence of three-line stanzas, it is deeply narrative, even conversational: a poem stripped of poetic language, as if Hirsch couldn't bear such fripperies. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

His second album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," released in 1963, established him as a poetic writer of protest songs and a raw, original new voice. New Bob Dylan album "Tempest" set for September release 2012-07-17T15:15:07Z

He invokes philosophy and science and endows his projects with poetic names, such as Writing With Light House or The Tower of Silence. Outcry over Glasgow School of Art extension 2011-02-25T19:22:40Z

Mr. Takacs brought a balletic fierceness last year to his staging of Philip Ridley’s “Tender Napalm,” an equally abstract, poetic standoff between a man and a woman. Theater Review: ‘I Am the Wind,’ by Jon Fosse, Features Men Alone at Sea 2014-01-17T02:00:01Z

Talbot’s debut takes a poetic, emotional approach to the problem of gentrification, which is perhaps why the film is resonating so widely. Meet the new directors who lit up the film festivals 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Cavendish makes no attempt at capturing the complexity of her idea in her poetic structure. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z

In contrast to the poetic congress babbling behind his spectacles and buck-toothed grin, Morgan in company could be reserved to the point of silence, especially among strangers. Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z

As “T2 Trainspotting” opens, Mark has just experienced the poetic justice of a heart attack on a treadmill in Amsterdam, where he has been hiding out. The ‘Trainspotting’ junkies are back, but it’s more than drugs that are eating at them. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

That radically exhaustive effort revealed the breadth of poetic opportunity for the stage in full literary texts conventionally perceived as requiring heavy translation. Review | How dry he’s not: Hemingway, brought to the stage in lively fashion 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Every image in “Memphis” quivers with a poetic intensity that captures the beauty and desolation of the urban South not pictured on tourist postcards. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Was it necessary to use poetic license for some of it? ArtsBeat: Cheryl Strayed Talks About 'Wild,' a Memoir of Hiking and Grief 2012-04-05T17:18:37Z

His characters, both heroes and villains, are superbly well drawn, and as in every Burke novel, the poetic descriptions of both urban and country settings bring Texas to life on the page. Burke fashions epic story in ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

“My work, I hope, is a poetic response to that experience, and an attempt to pull apart the language and grammar of pictures.” Hillary Clinton, Psy, and More Star in Julia Wachtel’s Latest Show 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Alamy And so we move into the second half of our poetic year with July – the seventh month, and one that is named after an emperor rather than a god, for once. Poster poems: July 2012-07-13T15:49:08Z

“There is a certain amount of poetic licence in the film,” he says with a smile. Eddie the Eagle: ‘I was probably closer to the ostrich’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The brilliant and poetic components of his artistry found ideal balance in his magnificent performance of “Kreisleriana.” Fleeting Fingers and Red-Eye Flights: A Pianist Is a Study in Stamina 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

And Lawther threads the famed “What a piece of work is man!” monologue with poetic resonance, moving from wonder to despair through slow articulation and emphatic rhythm. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

This is the rare pamphlet that feels equally political and poetic. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

The judges called it "an addictive, eye-opening and poetic exploration of a brain surgeon's doubts and drive." Brain surgery book up for Costa prize 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

On the evidence of this broadcast, though, the company today dances “Beauty” as a series of skillful feats rather than as a poetic or suspenseful drama. Dance Review: David Hallberg at Bolshoi in ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-11-22T00:00:10Z

Too insecure to refuse the requests for script changes, Williams would oblige but then confide to the press that his poetic vision had been compromised. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“She writes about such places from what you might call an exalted literary remove. The mode is epistolary, poetic, occasionally honest to a fault … and moral.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

For “West Side Story” he wrote “poetic” lyrics that Bernstein loved but that embarrassed their author — yet also produced, as the collaboration matured, lacerating lines that never cloy. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

These unfinished angels grow a little clearer and a little more poetic in the light of Murillo’s reassessment in Texas. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

It seems fitting, too, that she chose to wield rhyme and meter, the most conservative of poetic devices, in the service of ideological radicalism — an act of subversion if ever there was one. Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Luke pets my hair and lets me wax poetic in a way that most of my friends can only tolerate for so long. Talking to My Fiancé About My New Girlfriend 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It is an old trope, a hollow phrase, often a poetic cliche. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Steadfast in his belief that “architecture only exists when there is poetic emotion,” he designed landmarks of enduring significance. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Because of its strong narrative thrust, frequent autobiographical bent and tendency to shun conventional poetic devices, some reviewers dismissed it as merely prose with line breaks. Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 87 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Eventually Ireland even produced a transcript of the entire text of a lost play, laced with poetic echoes of Hamlet and King Lear. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

His responses almost always feel profound and poetic; he signs them, “Love, Nick.” The transcendence of Nick Cave: After losing his son, the post-punk icon found communion with his fans 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Though at 80 minutes “Intractable Woman,” Mr. Massini’s New York debut, is roughly a third the length of “The Lehman Trilogy,” it is clearly the work of the same ordering, furtively poetic sensibility. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

One is reminded of Elizabeth Hardwick’s poetic “work of memory,” “Sleepless Nights.” Review | Susan Taubes’s recently reissued ‘Divorcing’ is as haunting as ever 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

They eat boiled bark, weeds, and roots when there is nothing else; they eat shallow-fried transparent prawns from preference, jasmine blossoms out of poetic sentiment, and wine-braised camel’s hump from blatant extravagance. Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Birth of a Nation works best when its story is told most simply, without too many strained poetic images. Bold and Fraught, The Birth of a Nation Merits Your Attention 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

He felt that from his office armchair, he was merely “meant to act as a poetic radiator, radiating a love of poetry over as many miles as possible.” Critic?s Notebook: Making Rare Appearance: People and Their Appetites 2011-08-10T04:28:58Z

“There’s no poetic strategy he hasn’t deployed. At heart, his is a poetics of play — multilingual and linguistic shenanigans — but invested with deep empathy for the people and subjects who populate his poems.” Juan Felipe Herrera becomes first Mexican American U.S. poet laureate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The decades reveal more than a poetic autobiography but also nothing less: the evolution of a poet in the pages of a magazine in a way that we are not likely to see again. When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

This sounds, in the abstract, pretentious and forced, but the result is flickeringly poetic. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree

There are other voices in the film that are more poetic and less political. "Faya Dayi" presents a luminous yet hazy day in the life of Ethiopia colored by khat 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

Maybe Shaw’s horrific demise was pure poetic justice. I missed a crucial moment in Jurassic World. Have I misjudged every movie? | Joe Queenan 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Romantic ardor and poetic feeling are very pretty things, but so are feathered hats, Persian carpets and antique andirons. Theater Review | 'Candida': Two Men Who Adore Her, One Woman in the Middle 2010-03-08T06:35:00Z

Yet tucked into the rowdy mechanics of the music were lyrics that showed considerable poetic thought, like the one the group crashed through to finish their set. CMJ 2014: Son Little and Sons of an Illustrious Father Offer Roots Variations 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

In one of the most poetic shows, the wise old grump of Italian design, Enzo Mari, was exhibiting a beautiful series of found-object paperweights. When is a chair not a chair? 2010-04-19T12:12:00Z

The magical universe of Saint-Exupéry’s wistful, poetic novella is rendered in stop-motion animation, with pastel shades that evoke his original watercolor illustrations. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

It’s not his most visually extravagant film, not his most politically acute one, not his most rapturously romantic one, not his most lyrically poetic vision. Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The way Terry combines reality and fiction is pretty amazing, very poetic. A "Biutiful" chat with Javier Bardem 2010-12-30T00:01:00Z

Onstage, suspension of disbelief works by more poetic guidelines, as long as playwrights have the wit and conviction to dream them up. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

At one point, Mija asks her poetry teacher with almost comic innocence, “When does a ‘poetic inspiration’ come?” | 'Poetry': Consider an Apple, Consider the World 2011-02-10T22:31:06Z

It occurs to me that what she’s describing is a kind of utopian incrementalism: a poetic inversion of the frustrating slowness the city brings to its own progress on huge projects like TARP. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

Ravers often tend to think there is a grand poetic purpose to their gurning. Block9's grand designs on Glastonbury's nightlife 2013-05-10T23:00:07Z

The connection of these arcs to the crimes under investigation grows increasingly complex, less a matter of narrative cause and effect than of poetic resonance. A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

The author discerns the poetic even in brutal landscapes and histories, forging musical phrases from conflict. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

There’s something kind of poetic about that connection. A ‘High Maintenance’ Co-Creator on Her Favorite Possessions 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Ms. Ruhl is best known for her plays, which have a poetic sensibility and often cross over into the surreal. Sarah Ruhl, the Celebrated Playwright, Will Publish a Memoir 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

At times the results are poetic, as when, in a marvelous feat of both shooting and acting, a sequence of interactions is repeated multiple times within a seamless circular panning shot. ‘Careless Crime’ Review: A Time Loop in Iran 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Dances” itself sometimes strains after a poetic sensibility, staying within too limited an emotional range. Dance Review | New York City Ballet: From a Dreamy World to a City?s Tough Streets 2010-02-19T23:14:00Z

As Jack remembered, "Yoko was great," and her poetic interlude was the turning point for the song. The uncanny genius of "Walking on Thin Ice," Yoko Ono and John Lennon's poignant final collaboration 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare, recognizing that his tale is racing for catastrophe, simplifies the poetic imagery. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a potent production still finding its way 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

This poetic eulogy to a young woman’s father is written by a Broadway talent whose voice, both onstage and on the page, elicits deep emotion. Perspective | After losing two loved ones to covid-19, I turned to books. Here are 15 titles that helped me cope. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

And this adds a layer of poetic truth to "Hillary." "Hillary" review: Scorching contempt is this trailblazer's lot in Hulu's candid Clinton docuseries 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

For all its dry precision Brecht’s language in works like this retains poetic dignity. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Morrison has a new novel out, "Home," a brief, poetic story of Frank Money, a traumatized Korean War veteran who returns to the states in the 1950s. At home with Toni Morrison 2012-05-07T14:13:08Z

There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world. Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Although Arden felt increasingly confined by the theater of his day, he left behind a formidable body of work, written in a surging poetic prose. John Arden, British Playwright, Dies at 81 2012-04-03T18:15:07Z

“An Italian Dream,” the poetic movie shown at the iconic La Scala opera house, was more than an unexpected collaboration between music and fashion. Special Report: 'An Italian Dream' of Shoes and Dance 2010-09-24T18:03:00Z

Probably he’s better suited to more poetic roles, but I was glad about the new dimensions he found in this one. Dance Review: A ?Napoli? Changed, Yet Unchanging 2011-06-13T22:41:38Z

He sometimes seems more interested in poetic generalities than in squirming people. Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z

Nonetheless, because of personal misfortune or the vicissitudes of publishing, little — if any — of their work remains extant; in some cases, their poetic or novelistic visions were never even set down on paper. Book review: ‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure,’ edited by C.D. Rose

Meredith Martin, an assistant professor of English at Princeton who is studying the history of poetic form, was interested in the terms “prosody,” “meter” and “verse.” Analyzing Literature by the Words, but Also the Numbers 2010-12-03T20:30:00Z

With vast amounts of research and a poetic prose line, she puts the hard kernel of the gunfight’s violence at the center of a setting as wide and complicated as the young United States itself. A vivid return to the O.K. Corral in Mary Doria Russell’s novel ‘Epitaph’ 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Over the course of six decades, Bob Dylan steadily brought together popular music and poetic excellence. How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of "imitatio" to craft some of the most original songs 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

It was so poetic and powerful and expansive. My hero: Homer by Madeline Miller 2012-06-01T21:55:16Z

Yet this particular scene, in context, acquires an overwhelming strength that is both poetic and visceral. Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Trash Cuisine’ Serves Politics With Teeth 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

It is a high-impact fusion of formal extroversion and poetic introversion. Art In Review: ‘VIVA LA RASPBERRIES’ 2012-08-02T20:31:29Z

The series was wilfully impressionistic, even poetic, its underlying meanings, both cultural and political, suggested rather than spelt out. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z

"We might disagree with him, but we do not disagree about him - about his poetic status." Prominent Lebanese poet Akl dies at over 100 years old 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

A rigorous poetic form that usually consists of a series of couplets laced together by a precise rhyme scheme, ghazals originated in Persia and spread to India and Pakistan around the 15th century. Indian singer stretches tradition — and then some 2013-04-18T21:57:06Z

The image of this green room, this quiet space, this “emerald closet,” is one of many gifted to the reader throughout “Beloved,” a slim book brimming with singular, poetic language. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The story is a bracingly vicious tale of betrayal and poetic justice in what at first seemed an atmosphere of placid kitsch. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z

The crescendos of the left-hand octaves unfolded with spine-tingling intensity, vividly contrasted with Mr. Ohlsson’s poetic nuance as the piece morphed from funeral march to danse macabre to quiet melancholy. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Celebrates a Bicentennial at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-24T23:27:22Z

This music still isn’t easy listening, and the nature of the poetic drama in each piece remains arresting and highly ambiguous. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z

She fumed to see her poetic outrage at the world’s injustice reduced to a plea for attention. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

They are interspersed with gripping scenes of real life in the actual village, captured with poetic flair. 'Greatest of the great' - Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The poetic image of the autumn mists drifting over the lake is evoked with gentle rippling figures in the winds and strings. Music Review: Emanuel Ax and Tamara Mumford in ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ 2012-11-05T23:29:47Z

Mr. McClatchy’s verse rendering, not needing to fit the melody, has conversational and poetic punch, though it also leaves out the reference to Heaven: Betray me? Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

You could say that such works represent a convergence of opposite kinds of consciousness: one that thinks rationalistically in the most abstract terms possible and one that cogitates by means of visual and poetic metaphors. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

In it Mr. Pärt sets the poetic lamentations of St. Silouan, a Russian Orthodox monk on Mount Athos in Greece, which describe Adam’s anguish at finding himself expelled from paradise. ARVO PäRT: ‘ADAM’S LAMENT’ AND OTHER CHORAL WORKS 2012-10-28T04:20:05Z

Folded into the elegant design are countless instructions, both exacting and poetic. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

No bare-bones minimalism for this advocate of all things purple and lurid, who apparently never met a poetic image or theatrical shock tactic he couldn’t find a use for. Review: ‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest Tale of the Dysfunctional and Dispossessed 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

An obsessed experimenter doesn't notice his wife's chemistry with a local artist; his jangled sister scents revolution in the air but her poetic laments are futile. Table; Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-20T23:08:26Z

This seems appropriate when you remember that Konstantin’s poetic little drama is all about a future in which nature lives on without the presence of humans. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

But the chief problem at Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s performances was the lack of tragic intensity or even poetic poignancy in the central performances. Dance Review: The Mariinsky Presents Its Shimmering ‘Swan Lake’ 2014-01-31T22:42:57Z

With it, the architect proved the power of a poetic modernism, full of whimsy and romance, and offered a reproof to the lean, functional modernism of an earlier generation of architects. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

It is at least somewhat poetic that in a year in which lying is no longer a career-killing scandal but a viable vocational strategy we should see the triumphant return of Jonah Lehrer. Jonah Lehrer is back: Does a disgraced writer deserve another shot at nonfiction? 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

And you can thank heaven that Elizabeth Reaser also shows up, late for class, as a beautiful agoraphobe who talks in the unstrung poetic manner of a Tennessee Williams heroine. Review: Waiting to Connect in Levittown in ‘The Babylon Line’ 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Before this influential Sinatra record hit the shelves, songs were packaged and perceived, for the most part, as isolated poetic statements, or “singles.” Always Lonely: A Visual Celebration of Sinatra 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

In prose that adroitly mixes the prosaic and the poetic, Mr. Rebanks, 40, evokes a world essentially unknown to the 16 million tourists who visit the Lake District each year. James Rebanks, Man of Sheep, Man of Letters 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Graham knew about witches, wee folk and the poetic mystery of things,” Ms. Horosko wrote. Marian Horosko, Dancer and Advocate for the Art, Dies at 92 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

But I was more struck by his poetic accounts of Chopin, including the lovely Barcarolle. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

She and her team, including the cast of four excellent dancers, have distilled the famously convoluted text into a poetic, beautifully wrought 70 minutes. Review: A Choreographer in Conversation With James Joyce 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

The most eloquent aspect of “Lost Voices” is Edward T. Morris’s poetic set. Review: ‘Lost Voices’ Confronts the Rising Tide of Climate Change 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mary perhaps means only to explain her husband’s relationship to a poetic movement, but, in context, the quote reads as a gloss on the couple’s way of moving through the world. When the Oppens Gave Up Art to Fight Fascism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Inoue’s play is a speculation — poetic, satiric, fanciful and heartfelt — on what might have happened had these rivals met again six years later. | 'Musashi': From Hisashi Inoue, a Zen Comedy-Drama 2010-07-08T22:44:00Z

The other end is seen and heard in Ellie’s unceasing line of goofy banter, as when she teases Joel’s poetic description of proper rifle-handling by asking, “You gonna shoot this thing or get it pregnant?” ‘The Last of Us,’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Ties That Bind 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

But unlike some other, very technical bread books, the tone in these volumes is warm, encouraging, funny — sometimes even striving for poetic — as much as it is educational. The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks, for Novices and Pros 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Makumbi’s prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm — poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations. Set in Uganda, This Coming-of-Age Story Contains Universal Themes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Even this short fragment demonstrates Fitzgerald’s poetic care with his style. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

“I like the fact that there are 12 signs. I like the fact that there are the four elements. If you think about it, those are poetic constraints.” How the Astro Poets Lit Up the Internet 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Or it may be that such questions of poetic structure don’t much interest him, in which case he ought to explain why he thinks them unhelpful or irrelevant. John Keats, Chopped Prose and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

In Murphy's remake the swans no longer represent a poetic, supernatural fantasy but, rather, a symptom of mental illness — a deranged hallucination. Australian Ballet's 'Swan Lake' a royal disconnect 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

His poetic invitation to solve a mystery by going through his life and using the books he reflects upon as tools was a precious experience to me. Indexes, Soaring Imaginations and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Minutely observed social realism rubs shoulders with a strand of poetic, image-driven fantasy reminiscent of The Yellow Wallpaper. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

If the processes involved sound both devious and uncontrollable, the effect is curiously poetic. As if by chance 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

“They’re not stories so much as poetic explorations of compassion and justice,” she explains. The Newest Trend in Children’s Lit: ‘Empathy Books’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

There is a vast emotional range in the work, with sections that are exuberant, tender, desolate and whimsical, moods that Mr. Sohn illuminated here with a thoughtfully conceived and poetic interpretation, enhanced by tasteful ornamentation. Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z

He plays the piano with a poetic touch—his father is the distinguished pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane—and his music is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal harmony. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

However, the Romantics of the late 18th century wished to change and supersede that understanding of poetic originality. How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of "imitatio" to craft some of the most original songs 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

Oliver lived a profoundly simple life: she went on long walks through the woods and along the shoreline nearly every day, foraging for both greens and poetic material. Mary Oliver Helped Us Stay Amazed 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Looking back over Gaiman’s manuscripts, Maggs said, “It is like being inside his head while he’s writing them. His descriptions of scenes are quite poetic — there’s a Dylan Thomas kind of vibe.” Sweet Dreams: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Becomes an Audio Drama 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Making the play’s vision more uninvolving still, Bernadette often talks about her own experience with detachment and even a touch of poetic abstraction. Review | Theater review: ‘I Killed My Mother.’ The audience was an unintended victim. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

In his poetic and elliptical ways, McLuhan foresaw a fluid melting world of texting, email, YouTube, Google, smartphones and reality TV. Why McLuhan's chilling vision still matters today 2011-07-20T18:00:15Z

Many of the skits are punchlined by pop songs; elsewhere, prosaic visual gags are made poetic by the addition of a well-loved tune. The Boy With Tape on His Face – review 2012-12-21T18:07:35Z

The purpose of Sturgis’ exhaustive scholarship is that the prosaic may better inform the poetic. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Holl ’s design is not about escaping this world but transforming it into something more poetic. Architecture Review: Civic Engagement Trumps ?Shhh!? 2011-01-30T18:34:30Z

Bartscherer’s poetic and slim story follows a couple, Tasha and Andre, through the seasons, a vague timeline guided more by mood than chronology: fresh, promising spring; pleasantly lethargic summer; suddenly shifting autumn; suffocatingly glacial winter. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

“Sensuous” seems more accurate a description than “poetic,” and especially evocative of a theme running through Jones’s work: that most things are felt before they are understood. Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 Abbey Lincoln, a singer whose dramatic vocal command and tersely poetic songs made her a singular figure in jazz, died on Saturday in Manhattan. Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 2010-08-14T19:25:00Z

At a recent charity auction held by the law school, Betts sold his poetic services: the winning bidder won a poem written just for him. A Decade After Prison, a Poet Studies for the Bar Exam 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly the poetic answer I was looking for, but fair enough. A Family Ski Adventure in the Himalayas 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

As the erstwhile sitcom star waxed poetic about his harem of "goddesses" and nefarious "Vatican assassin warlocks," we couldn't help but seeing shades of Frank T.J. Charlie Sheen wants $10 million for tell-all memoir 2011-02-26T16:27:00Z

Her writing was poetic and confessional, beautifully crafted. Nancy Wilson on leading Heart with her sister: “The guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that” 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Beautiful, too, was the dancers’ technique, the sharp outlines and poetic tenderness of ballet, as well as a flung-out ferocity. Review | Dutch masters of dance: Rebellious perfection 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

When Goh decided to write her way into the poetic tradition of Angel Island, she began with the lost voices of the women. The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ruhl’s writing is calm and poetic, loaded with imagery and occasional fantasies such as the giant puppet fish that school across the stage from time to time. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s funny how this art was so revolutionary at the time but now looks so poetic,” she said, adding that it was “instinct” that made her decide to embark on such a complicated project. Inside Art: At Venice Biennale, Sarah Sze’s ‘Triple Point’ 2013-05-30T19:51:10Z

Unlike other similar palaces — the poetic pink sandstone Jaipur House, say, now the National Gallery of Modern Art — Bikaner House met a drearier fate as government offices and a bus depot. An Airy Store in a New Delhi Palace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The world premiere of “Wildflowers, a feminine genesis,” Maureen Fleming’s interdisciplinary celebration of femininity and Yeats’s poetic symbolism, will follow in October. Poetry and Puppets Are Part of La MaMa’s Coming Season 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

But “Knee Deep” only dips a toe into poetic theater. Dance Review: Casus Performs ‘Knee Deep’ at New Victory Theater 2014-03-26T21:08:36Z

Mr. Turner’s poems can be too prosy, but we need his bracing “bullet-borne language” as he tries to reconcile the chaos of Iraq with the demands of the poetic line. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z

The album capitalizes on the singer’s family credentials, featuring a song composed by her father, and another song that pays poetic homage to her paternal grandmother, who was — you guessed it — also a famous musician. Seizing the moment while staying true to her heritage

The lyrics revolve around perception and expectation, fate and free will, with the occasional blush of poetic overstatement. Playlist: New CDs From Bjork, Barry Harris and Dwele 2010-07-09T23:42:00Z

It’s a rare moment of volubility for the usually shy Margaret, but otherwise the sequence is typical of Bock’s unusual and poetic, if not wholly satisfying, play. A lesson in geography, typography and stenography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

In an essay for a 2007 DVD release, Mr. Scorsese extolled the poetic rhythms of Mr. Anger’s films and what he called their “inevitable” logic. Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Tonight's set is one of poetic justice, played out in front of an emotional crowd – a set only partially flawed by bad sound and worse jokes. Rodriguez – review 2012-11-18T00:06:15Z

“In the movie ‘Kill Your Darlings,’ Daniel Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg as a clean-shaven Columbia student who rebels against literary and cultural traditions, among them such poetic niceties as rhyme and metre.” Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

And, in an extension of Siah Armajani’s traveling survey at the Met Breuer, the Public Art Fund installed that artist’s ineffably poetic “Bridge Over Tree” on the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

The poetic library in Ms. Kumin’s head would later help her endure a long, painful captivity of her own. Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 88 2014-02-07T20:50:12Z

When Lazarus writes of the “huddled masses” and the “wretched refuse,” she wasn’t waxing poetic; she was documenting a crisis and trying to bring into being a great nation’s magnanimous response. Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Choo-Choo also, it seems, has a sense of the poetic. 'Justified' Recap: Choo-Choo Chosen 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

"The sex scenes were the same. It's not soft, poetic and sensual." Reese Witherspoon has a lot invested in 'Wild' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Zbikowski, 38 — tattooed and lively, with a devilish smile and an affinity for poetic soliloquies about energy and effort — is not your typical experimental dance artist. Revealing the Labor of Dance Through Constant Motion 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

He revealed a more introspective side during his poetic rendition of Liszt’s “Consolation No. 3.” Music Review: George Li, Pianist at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-11-02T22:39:01Z

With vocal mechanisms attached to special laptops, they began articulating smart, grammatically correct, sometimes even poetic sentences that expressed complex thoughts and feelings. Autism documentary entertains rather than preaches 2011-04-03T23:01:11Z

The women of this book are clever and witchy, speaking in a poetic cadence they have created together, elegiac in some moments and overwrought in others. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

But at 21 minutes, her score speaks with poetic concision, ending before it has overstated its point. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Known to be deftly poetic in her native Spanish, Shakira learned English and delivered the 2001 crossover album “Laundry Service,” spawning hits such as the panpipe-starring “Whenever, Wherever” and tender slow jam “Underneath Your Clothes.” Review | Shakira launches ‘El Dorado’ with real and vocal fireworks 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

The images don’t have the same texture, the poetic charge is different, so you have to reinvent the images.” The Cinematographer Agnès Godard on ‘Sister’ 2012-09-29T22:53:01Z

The duet includes extraordinary poetic images of erotic need, compounded by anguish about life itself. Television Review | 'N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz': Reimagining Jerome Robbins? ?Ballet in Sneakers? 2010-03-23T22:17:00Z

She added: “His work is poetic, but he addresses specific issues and subjects such as love, and death, that are rooted in his own experience.” Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z

Recounted in poetic prose with context from pop-history and cultural commentary, MacLean’s picaresque adventures include poignant reunions and chance encounters with a colorful cast of characters ranging from intellectuals to proletarians, tycoons to destitute migrants. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Happy End transformed the rock scene with poetic Japanese lyrics that somehow fit the cadence and rhythms of American-style rock. The Hidden History of Japan’s Folk-Rock Boom 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

According to Bertolucci, cinema is “a truly poetic language”, a claim that many of his films justify. Bernardo Bertolucci obituary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Listen more closely, and even the jaunty mazurkas are quizzical, wistful and poetic. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

With a sweet lift from poetic musings by Langston Hughes, “After Midnight” invites us into a re-imagined version of Harlem’s 1930s musical mecca, the Cotton Club. On and Off Broadway, doing more with less 2013-12-04T22:00:07Z

Rossetti allows herself the full freedom of her poetic gifts: her visual sense, her musicality, her skill in both narrative and lyric modes. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z

While he was obviously inspired by Europeans like Cézanne, Picasso and Braque, he was committed, along with many other Americans, to the dream of a distinctively native style grounded in a poetic sense of place. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

Mr. Beck infused his interpretation with myriad colors and textures, even occasionally rendering Schoenberg’s logic poetic. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z

Mr. McClatchy’s translation captures the meaning in poetic words that match the directness of the Italian: Grant me, Love, at last an end To my sorrow, oh hear my sigh. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

He writes sentences with the lively, poetic zing of one as attuned to the sounds of words as to their meanings. A Comic Novel Reunites a Damaged Dad and His Recalcitrant Offspring 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Decisions that are logistical — keeping audience members in their cars; providing context through poetic narration by Marsha Music; reducing Wagnerian grandeur to a handful of players — are also fitting. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Gems’s script proposes using a set that is “not naturalistic” and “neutral in atmosphere,” which might have given the play a more abstract, poetic quality, in the manner of Caryl Churchill’s history-scrambling “Top Girls.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Change in the Air 2013-07-12T16:58:10Z

In her poetic and music-rich fable “Uprising,” playwright Gabrielle Fulton explores a little-known corner of American history with much heart and mixed success. Blending fact and fiction to create a moving tale 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

A comedian at heart, he started writing down the quips of his father, whose statements are as poetic as they are profane. CBS Sitcom Inspired by Justin Halpern?s Twitter Page 2010-05-18T21:35:00Z

Just over 20 years ago, this humble space introduced “an entire poetic form, making its global debut in the Style Invitational.” Style Invitational Week 1193: Poedtry II, plus winning limericks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

They are instead the anxious children who have — since the likes of Holden Caulfield and James Dean’s rebel — defined American adolescence as a state of poetic confusion. Movie Review: ‘Palo Alto,’ About Adolescents Stumbling Toward Adulthood 2014-05-08T21:44:34Z

Bodied stars redheaded former Disney kid Calum Worthy as a Berkeley student named Adam who scraps his thesis on the poetic function on the N-word in battle rap when he’s invited to spar. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

He brought a crisp, agile touch to the cadenza and plenty of poetic nuance to the second movement. Music Review: Emanuel Ax and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor 2012-07-16T21:48:04Z

Gunning's poetic, fragmentary style is perfectly suited to the kind of visual storytelling that draws on memory, text and longing to at once evoke the past and the present. Political, provocative, personal: photography to look forward to 2012-08-16T15:04:43Z

In other words, the high-falutin' poetic diction of the 18th century was renounced; plain speech, with as many monosyllables as possible, took its place, and nothing was ever the same again. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and ST Coleridge, edited by Fiona Stafford – review 2013-07-16T11:35:07Z

It was better to let the gestures wash over like poetic fragments: lost in translation, yet full of passion. Review: The Soundless Gestures of Francisca Benitez’s Dance on the High Line 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the supportive and helpful but ailing Mimi maintains boundless confidence in Joy and tells her so, in inspiringly poetic terms, a prediction that’s in cruel contrast with Joy’s burdened, frustrated, seemingly desperate circumstances. David O. Russell’s Self-Reflexive “Joy” 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

There was grandeur, too, in Valerie Coleman’s “This Is Not a Small Voice,” her new setting of a poetic paean to Black pride by Sonia Sanchez that weaves from rumination to bold declaration. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

The descriptions of battle are restrained, the poetic excerpts polite. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

It is also globally famous, not as a place on a map but as a poetic trope, a metaphor for an organic community. In praise of ? East Coker 2011-08-22T20:10:48Z

Walker Percy, the legendary novelist — born in Alabama, raised in Mississippi, lived in Louisiana, child and grandchild of suicides — said Christenberry’s photographs were a “poetic evocation of a haunted countryside.” After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Helado Negro crafts moods — moods tinged with bits of darkness and irony and joy, all made more evocative by poetic lyrics and Lange’s deep, melancholic voice. Helado Negro's 'Private Energy' is an experimental electronica album that quietly delves into the political 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

When Orpheus is more human, only the baritone sings; when his speech tends toward the poetic, the countertenor’s voice becomes what Mr. Aucoin described as “a halo of sound.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

I don't know what consequences my ideas in poetic form will have, but I do believe in the truth that Herbert Hill expressed: Ideas have consequences. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic, but with a strong literal story. Portrait of the artist: Abi Morgan, writer 2012-06-05T18:59:01Z

Moreover, the tone grows quite similar somewhere around the halfway mark, with director Kleiser demonstrating a skill with the poetic moments, less so the reflective ones. The male of the species, under glass and onstage 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The chorus is repetitive but it's okay because the lyrics are quite poetic so I have no problem with this earworming into my brain, set on repeat. Rob Delaney's new releases review 2013-04-22T05:00:00Z

He was aptly complemented by Mr. Drake’s poetic and vivid playing, which mirrored the tension in his voice. Music Review: At Alice Tully, 19th-Century Pop, Via Brahms 2010-04-01T21:07:00Z

Singer Abbey Lincoln, who was then Roach's wife, animates the poetic imagery with a vocal performance that veers between tender and volcanic. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

It fits the poetic meter, and is also faithful to the French; it just isn’t the way they wanted to write. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Borinsky alludes to a kind of utopia in which the world’s pedestrian rules are kept at bay, but mostly leans on a vagueness that might claim to be poetic but ends up noncommittal. Review: Mining a Whimsical Absurdist Vein in ‘The Trees’ 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

The start of a smoldering aria, these words may be the most poetic and poignant in Anthony Davis’s opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

He also has his own band, Erimaj — but on “///// EFFECTUAL,” he pares down almost entirely to solo drum kit, creating a series of poetic experiments in rhythm and tonal color. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

She surrendered "complete control" to Wilson, handing over old journals and diaries as fodder for his poetic staging of her biography. AP Interview: Marina Abramovic, performance artist 2012-10-06T06:16:03Z

After intermission came a poetic rendition of the Andante and Variations in F minor, “Un piccolo divertimento,” possibly inspired by the death of a close female friend of Haydn’s. Music Review | Andras Schiff: Sharing Affinity for Haydn 2010-03-01T05:49:00Z

The jury praised Adonis for bringing modern European ideas and critical thinking into current Arab culture by using classic poetic images based in the traditions of Arabic poets. German literary prize for Syrian poet Adonis 2011-08-28T11:04:10Z

After a prologue, “Wall” unfolds in scabrously poetic, honest, linear manner, its fictional archetypes intersecting in hilarious and disturbing ways. Stonewall remembered in 'Hit the Wall,' with a resonance for today 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s raining metaphors in “for all the women who thought they were Mad,” Zawe Ashton’s densely poetic play about racial alienation in the big city. Review: In Zawe Ashton’s ‘for all the women,’ the Price of Uprooting a Life 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Smith admits as much, writing of her “fascination for melancholia” and the poetic potential that resides in her “numinous malady.” The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

“She’s a trailblazer rebel artist who pushed the envelope with a poetic form.” With a Rebel Yell, Molly Shannon Claims Collusion 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Sensuous, poetic, overwhelming, it simultaneously invites and mocks the idea of interpretation, safeguarding certain freedoms in the process. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Robert Penn Warren’s 1969 poetic sequence “Audubon: A Vision” became a key inspiration for the book for those reasons. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Suddenly we were in a different world, one of translucent splendor, of shimmering visions of queens and royal courts and mythical beings, of woman as unattainable fantasy and poetic dream. Dance Review: The Bolshoi Performs Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ in London 2013-08-14T21:10:21Z

Young attendees can conduct their own poetic experiments through art and song, and they will also be encouraged to make and enjoy milk tarts, treats that were popular in Bach’s era. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

No science fiction author of his generation had a more polished or more poetic prose style — a skill that stood out all the more given the slap-dash sentence of his pulp fiction contemporaries. Ray Bradbury: The man who made sci-fi respectable 2012-06-06T20:30:00Z

Ms. Allahyari researches female monsters and dark goddesses from Middle Eastern cultures and recasts their supposedly negative powers as sources of strength in poetic, multimedia artworks. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Ben Ratliff's review is so well written and poetic, and it flows with the perfect arc that he uses so well to describe this band's music. Allman Brothers Band, at Beacon Theater, Plays Final Concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The definition of Tayou's poetic process hangs between the eccentric and colourful story of everyday life and the necessity to mix human characteristics and geographies, cultures and situations, which are not easy to identify. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

The poetic nature of the novel, as well as the genre and time shifts, might test the patience of readers seeking clearly delineated science fiction narratives, but it’s worth a look. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a different metabolism, plus I like this poetic principle, leaving things to the imagination. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

To celebrate our Tiny Love Stories, the 100-words-or-less pieces we consider “Modern Love in miniature,” we rounded up 10 of the most poignant, funny and poetic published submissions. The Best of Tiny Love Stories 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

And in the tender ballad “Beautiful,” he offers poetic encouragement: “A ray of sun for every fear/And a smile for every tear/On the other side of this, my dear.” 7 Albums for Kids That Adults Will Want to Hear, Too 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

This entirely fresh innovative and powerful presentation of a new musical form, coupled with Conor McPherson’s superb storytelling and the poetic musical genius of Bob Dylan, made our yearly trip to New York most memorable. Upon Further Review: Readers Tell Us What Deserved to Be Top 10 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Not as universally well-known as Blowin' in the Wind, nor as effortlessly anthemic as The Times They Are A-Changin', Dylan's celebrated poetic genius was nevertheless never more obvious, or effective, than here. Your most inspiring political songs 2012-08-03T17:22:06Z

The context, connection and poetic sympathy that Wilson provides, however, is something that is in rare supply in today’s cultural landscape. Resilience and dignity are the rich, bluesy music of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

With her new book’s title, Anne Waldman, whose writing, performing, teaching and activist career defies political and poetic convention, appears to promise feminist mischief and playfulness. A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

There are poetic elements that avert an exacting realism, such as the original music composed by David Coulter, who plays the saw on stage. For 'A Thousand Splendid Suns,' a well-timed journey from the page to the stage 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s a poetic narrative that recalls Wilco’s take on Woody Guthrie’s “Remember the Mountain Bed.” Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z

Mentioning it at all initially sounds like a well-placed plug for an upcoming feature, until Brosnan hooks another hard conversational left and waxes poetic on his long personal relationship with the great nation of Croatia. Pierce Brosnan: 'It’s a capricious old game, the world of being an actor' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Geddy Lee, frontman for Rush, for whom the Hip once opened, praised them in an email for their “blues based, sinewy, guitar rock combined with Gord’s original poetic style of lyrics.” Gord Downie, Frontman for the Tragically Hip, in His Final Act 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

The title of that piece is not innocently poetic; it’s also a slang term for a type of group sex. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“After being censored, it is poetic justice that my work is now on top of a State Supreme Court building,” she said. Move Over Moses and Zoroaster: Manhattan Has a New Female Lawgiver 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

The book, which will be published by Random House on Sept. 13, offers a poetic but unvarnished account of his personal history, abundant with the barbarity and grace that have animated Milch’s fictional characters. David Milch Still Has Stories to Tell 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

It makes an eloquent and poetic case for the nationalisation that went on after the second world war under the socialist Attlee government of 1945-1951. Trailer Trash 2013-01-20T00:04:06Z

Murray praised what she called the "poetic" prose of the novel, which traces the downfall of Anne Boleyn in 16th century England and Henry's dangerous attraction to Jane Seymour. Mantel's history novel picks up another major award 2013-01-29T21:07:23Z

This rage, marked by a hostility toward anything poetic or naïve, reaches its full expression in the comments directed at Jose Canseco’s feed, a highly pleasing outpouring of slightly oddball, gnomic pronouncements. Circa Now : Nasty Comments on Twitter 2013-04-26T22:39:53Z

Still, there’s something poetic about a Lil Baby album expanding beyond the limits of its initial form. Review | Lil Baby’s inside voice is the sound of a restless American summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

“She was both poetic and military in her approach to dinner party planning,” Golia said. New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

He wasn't always going to be king of this poetic form, whose rhyming-but-thematically-free couplet is the basis for so many songs in the subcontinent. Mehdi Hassan's songs live on as Pakistan and India unite in mourning 2012-06-14T12:47:46Z

His passionate readings are notable for both their poetic introspection and their tempestuous virtuosity. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

The redolent monologues, biblical resonance and poetic fire of August Wilson. Review: 'The Brothers Size' at Seattle Rep, wrestles with the passions, the perils of brotherhood 2011-02-10T21:57:04Z

It’s probable that Bausch, here and elsewhere, intended to restore to dance some of the poetic ambiguity that was so striking and baffling in Graham’s choreography in the 1940s. Dance Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2012-07-22T20:20:07Z

Having your leading man rush offstage to the bathroom is less poetic than having him clutch his chest and piteously proffer a bloodstained handkerchief. Theater Review: ‘Golden Age,’ by Terrence McNally, at City Center 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z

And while his wife is no poetic referee, he is delightful on the subject of how much the Edna Longley "household seal of approval" means. A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley 2011-03-20T00:02:02Z

More important, they expose the ancestors of the one-eyed, snaggletoothed “Dwarf,” along with a wilder side of Baziotes’s art that gave way to poetic restraint. Art In Review: WILLIAM BAZIOTES: ‘A Centennial Exhibition: Surrealist Drawings of the 1930s’ 2012-11-29T20:25:44Z

Things That are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animalsby Amy Leach By and large, the 26 pieces here are short, pithy, and packed with information delivered in poetic but precise language. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z

Relegated to the realm of poetic metaphor, they turn up as a loose hook for the 63 works in the four-artist show “How to Build a Foghorn.” Uncharted seas in 'How to Build a Foghorn' at Samuel Freeman Gallery 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

But the warmth of the surroundings and her attentive band soon allowed her to sound like the great interpreter of a poetic lyric she is. Madeleine Peyroux – review 2013-05-01T17:16:03Z

The play is a hybrid: thriller, metaphysical essay with poetic moments and occasional bleak jokes. Doktor Glas – review 2013-04-19T16:41:16Z

The $15 million memorial, a bold and poetic architectural form on a hill near the center of town, is the most visible part of that effort. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Punctuated by interviews and previously unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias Mr. X. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

In 1960, he discovered “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” the 1941 book of photographs by Walker Evans and with a poetic text by James Agee. William Christenberry, artist of a crumbling, memory-haunted South, dies at 80 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to write a poetic phrase on what turned out to be a civic monument.” How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

And the designer’s poetic vision this season was brought back to fashion values of decency and discretion. Special Report: Fashion: Silver-But Not Gold for Ferre 2011-02-25T19:02:46Z

Finally Lady Elgar joins them; their trio become an exceptionally poetic statement of friendship. Review: Sarasota Ballet Blends Oddity and Englishness in a Double Bill 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

Anderson's vision is one of speculative anthropology, with poetic and philosophical overtones. Review: 'World Headquarters' ? at Velocity Dance Center ? is kinetic storytelling for a dystopian future 2010-10-02T19:46:00Z

This remains a wonderfully mysterious and poetic piece that often tugs at the heart. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Kosmas was a bright light on the Seattle experimental scene in the late 1990s, working with Printer’s Devil Theatre and New City Theater, and crafting some fascinating, feverishly poetic solo plays of her own devising. ‘There There’: a baffling, intriguing take on Chekhov 2014-01-11T02:41:38Z

At five pages, “The Fledgling” is a virtuoso composition, its brevity speaking to how poetic concision can test a reader’s capacity for melancholy. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Maybe too assured, since it’s so austere and pared down of inessentials that one sometimes wishes for the more poetic flourishes that this artist is capable of. | 'Horsedreams': ?Horsedreams,? at the Rattlestick Theater - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:40Z

Her stage choices have tended towards plays with poetic sweep, complicated language – and not entirely contemporary texts. Fiona Shaw: 'I'm not frightened of hard words' 2012-07-17T18:01:00Z

Harry's writing on birds takes the form of poetic observations about the kookaburras, and about families in general. Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany – review 2013-06-12T03:53:35Z

Beyond that, simply judged by its intellectual brilliance, poetic clarity and incisive character portraits, “The Bassarids” is one of opera’s great literary librettos. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z

Murray said Mantel's prose was poetic and beautiful. Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote 2013-01-29T20:33:00Z

Sometimes, the phrases are like run-on sentences; elsewhere, they are poetic, rhetorical, filled with pauses and hesitations. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

For it is no coincidence, still less a poetic flourish, that all the bloody strands of the riverbed make you think of anatomy. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Photograph: Prinzhorn Collection The writing is sometimes wonderfully poetic and often whimsical. Jocelyn Pook: inspired by mental illness 2012-11-23T22:55:11Z

It is, in Vermes's words, often a "poetic" achievement, a "majestic synthesis"; but it is undeniably something different from the religion of Jesus and the religion of Jesus's first followers. Christian Beginnings by Geza Vermes - review 2012-07-11T07:00:02Z

Indeed, Wroe's might be seen as an attempt to emulate in glowing, rhapsodic prose the arc of Rilke's transcendent poetic achievement. Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe ? review 2011-07-29T22:00:40Z

In poetic language, he goes about tearing down the era’s lofty critical demand for abstraction as art’s theoretically highest value, replacing it with a matter-of-fact catalog of everyday ephemera. Starring Cate Blanchett, 13 times over: Actress commands a stunning range of roles for 'Manifesto' 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

But Almodóvar’s own poetic spirit meshes nicely with that of the old master’s throughout. ‘The Human Voice’ Review: Almodóvar Meets Cocteau Meets Swinton 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

For the next 2 1/2  hours, salon participants will examine and discuss Calder’s art and use it as poetic inspiration. Think you’d be inspired by a Calder mobile? Then this writing salon is for you 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

As the program progresses, Casel opens the stage to more guests, including Brown, a choreographer known for his poetic melding of contemporary dance movement rooted in African traditions, including West African and Afro-Cuban dance. Review: Reveling in the Tap Magic of Ayodele Casel 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Ashbery has said that at Harvard in the late 40s he first realised that "nothing was too silly to bother with", that fun and high camp were worthy poetic goals. Quick Question by John Ashbery – review 2013-03-15T17:30:01Z

As well as being great fun and quite inspiring, Neruda’s poetic pads are obligatory stops for anyone keen to understand Chile and its recent history. Poet's Pacific paradise: Pablo Neruda’s homes in Chile 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Women embroidered poetic maxims into samplers while listening. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s also written in an amazing, highly wrought poetic language, which can be off-putting at times, and at times absolutely irresistible. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z

She dreams that she is visited by her dead father, and here Ms. McFall’s writing seems sentimentally poetic: “You always meant the world to me,” Amelia sings, “and when you died, I lost my world.” Music Review: ?Amelia? Has Its Premiere at the Seattle Opera 2010-05-09T22:10:00Z

There were, however, times when it felt as though he really wanted to be writing a historical novel, of the floaty poetic sort rather than a rip-roaring page-turner. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Not only did she speak fluent, poetic Moron—“Drill, baby, drill!”—she seemed able to generate endless one-off Moron sentences with every exhaled breath. The Laws of Comedy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

The result is a show that isn’t reductively “racial” but includes race on a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic. Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

This new ballet is done to seven songs by the English musician James Blake, who writes delicate, poetic ballads over electronic keyboard and syncopated percussion. Review: William Forsythe’s Wonderful Love Letter to Ballet 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

“Even if there’s explosions, even if there’s giant worms, he’s just always looking at it through his poetic lens, which for me is totally, totally unique.” Denis Villeneuve’s dreams of ‘Dune’ reach the big screen 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

A staging of Louis Andriessen’s opera “De Materie” earlier this year enveloped viewers in the pungent smell of live sheep, which were herded onstage for one memorably poetic scene. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

A heart-wrenching personal account of the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s, it relies on clay figures, dioramas, archival footage and a poetic French-language narration to tell its story. Carpetbagger: Divisions in the Foreign-Language Category 2014-01-16T16:09:55Z

Mr. Barrett’s style, both exact and poetic, is reminiscent of any number of Irish writers who keep language on a string. In Colin Barrett’s ‘Young Skins,’ a Small Irish Town’s Aimless Denizens 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

In its blending of modern and traditional storytelling, its poetic imagery and primal emotion, this is the kind of magical theater event that comes along only rarely. London hit "War Horse" makes thrilling Broadway bow 2011-04-18T03:57:08Z

Gray, who killed himself in 2004, called himself a poetic journalist, but his beat was highly specialized: his own life, a subject he riffed on in more than a dozen beautifully crafted monologues. Perspective | A critic taken with Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ lists 10 other favorite solo shows 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Barry’s language is still poetic and reaching and imaginative, but now in effortless service to more substantial themes, in particular love and “the way that time moves.” Review: In ‘Beatlebone,’ an Imagined Trip With John Lennon 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Kwon’s crisp, poetic style conveys events that feel lightly obscured by fog, just enough to be disorienting without being frustrating. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

They lacked cumulative force, poetic resonance — qualities that transform a watchable routine into a choreographic work of art. Flamenco Shows of Intimacy, Passion and Spectacle 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Wolfe, who died of miliary tuberculosis at the age of 37, was a North Carolina native who drew heavily on his own life to write his poetic prose. Colin Firth at the Berlin film festival: 'If someone wants me to wear a mankini in a film, I will' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The result was a poetic stream of consciousness about masculinity, ambivalent love and the failures of France to help a man trapped and physically ruined by his working-class life. Édouard Louis Would Like to Talk About Theater Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod Musical comedy, the comedy of mime, character comedy, sketch comedy, poetic comedy, comedy by means of multimedia overhead projection. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: good old-fashioned standup 2010-08-16T09:58:00Z

Prose was hardly a new medium for him: he had, since 1961, written seven memoirs, guided readers to poetic voices new and old, and issued a textbook, “Writing Well,” that thrived through many editions. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

By chance, I discover her own secret garden, a poetic flowerscape of tole buttercups, cornflowers, sweet peas, a datura and a thistle that is arranged on a small bare wall in her home. | Carmen Almon, The Naturalist 2013-08-21T19:11:13Z

Yet from the start Pollini pushed the music ahead with a bracing urgency; the poetic, quietly rhapsodic aspect of the music is so pronounced that Pollini hardly needed to pronounce it. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

An emblem of Pegasus, the symbol of poetic inspiration, decorates the woman’s headpiece. Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca’ Comes to the Frick 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It remains one of the great works of postwar Italian cinema, a film whose poetic realism influenced Martin Scorsese as well as the young Bernardo Bertolucci, at that time Pasolini's cameraman. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z

Walker’s poetic text and Holmes’s striking collaged art paint a joyous portrait of a single avenue’s dynamic Black community. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

“It’s quite subversive in a poetic way. That monument would be in production right now in the context of all these other colonial monuments being reconsidered and removed.” San Francisco Apologizes to Artist Over Maya Angelou Monument 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Sporadic texts offer a poetic interjection with the exhibits, anchoring the dreaminess into the historic facts of real danger defied at the edge of our world. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-15T23:05:28Z

The trees seem to be manipulated by a gigantic poetic intelligence. Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z

In rich, poetic prose and employing lavish imagination, “A Stranger in Olondria” introduced this remarkable country where ghosts, religious fanatics and warring factions converged. Sofia Samatar on the many influences on her fantasy novel, 'The Winged Histories' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

There is a poetic justice about Buergenthal's journey from Holocaust victim to arbiter of man's inhumanity to man. Holocaust survivor Thomas Buergenthal silences the Hay crowds 2010-05-31T15:47:00Z

Sarah Brown, a cousin of Tom Washington, said she was struck by the poetic language of human rights and the material in the three rare books and the papers, during a time of slavery. Owning George Washington: The Auction 2011-04-06T21:53:42Z

You never quite know where you are in this blend of drawing room comedy, poetic treatise, and feminist, bodice-ripping romance. ACT's 'In the Next Room' is a romp offering more than good vibes 2011-08-05T22:04:06Z

Entertaining, poetic, political, this is a tremendous production. Josephine and I; Barnum; The Hush – review 2013-07-27T23:05:20Z

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, lauded for creating "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Some lyrics from Bob Dylan songs 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

This poetic, laconic and ineffably beautiful drama has an unerring feel for its subject, a young cowboy struggling against his implacable fate in the American West. ‘The Rider’ Review: A Cowboy Life in the Balance 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Unlike countless guides already in circulation, hers omits perennial subjects such as the poetic line, a brief history of verse, or the resources of rhythm and imagery. Review | ‘Don’t Read Poetry’ is a literary manual for the Instagram era 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Elisabeth Egan, called this novel about two families — “white and Black, scattered across the North and the South” — a “poetic, spare, sometimes funny tale of ordinary people pining for meaningful connections.” New in Paperback: ‘The Travelers’ and ‘On Fire’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Ruhl’s plays are sometimes mistranslated from page to stage — rendered less poetic than they are, and more earthbound. Review: ‘Letters From Max’ Is a Sacrament of Grief, and a Comedy 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Riddley Walker's language is poetic in the sense that it's made to be spoken more than read in silence. Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story 2013-04-01T09:00:02Z

The Japanese love of nature is illustrated in the first section of the show by poetic landscape screens. 2010-01-08T19:00:00Z

Alone in his studio, he performs their expressions and movements with prosumer facial-recognition technology, sends them through Grand Guignol torments and slapstick pratfalls, and voices their poetic scripts in ghostly voice-over. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

I hoped there was some poetic license there. At Home With Emma Koenig: Emma Koenig’s So-Called Redacted Life 2012-07-25T23:06:08Z

After last year's dog's giblets of an episode, it needed to be, but this poetic romp was actually the best since The Christmas Invasion, and possibly better. Doctor Who: The Snowmen – Christmas special 2012 2012-12-25T18:15:00Z

He added that he thought it would be tricky to create a musical with an equally somber storyline but figured that a poetic approach, like that of the plays, might do the trick. Music and poetry leaven a heavy subject 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

We’re standing on a back porch in Bend, Ore., and Jazmin has been waxing poetic about the superiority of Mexican chickens. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

A tale of time travel, sideshow freaks and mysterious existential patterns, “Last of the Whyos” is daring, poetic and — in director Rebecca Holderness’s production — nicely acted. ‘Last of the Whyos’: It’s a bold story, but it doesn’t budge 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Its two movements, though, are just as concentrated, and if anything more poetic and thus haunting in their ambiguity. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Marilyn Stasio of Variety wrote that "the lyrical language of Sting’s mournful score gives poetic voice to the distressed shipbuilders, but depicting their story as a heroic allegory is regrettably alienating." Sting musical 'The Last Ship' opens on Broadway to mixed reviews 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Stewart is a poetic writer – about nature, about boys and casual violence – and good at capturing moments of beauty. King Crow by Michael Stewart ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z

Rahman's irrepressible drive always punches through, which occasionally disrupts the more reflective and poetic possibilities, and, so far, she's a stronger interpreter of pieces by other artists than a generator of her own. Zoe Rahman: Kindred Spirits ? review 2012-02-09T22:43:00Z

Accepting Pawlikowski’s mood of poetic seriousness may be a chore for some. The Woman in the Fifth: L'amour and la mort in Paris 2012-06-14T17:45:32Z

Implicit in his dystopic perspective is an indictment of poetic simile. New poetry from Jane Mead and Daniel Borzutzky examine death — in both human and national forms 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

“It’s this really poetic rumination on the collective struggle.” Lost, and Now Found, Art From the Civil Rights Era 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

The show had a poetic appeal, with the models styled to look as if they had just wandered in following a cloudy afternoon spent strolling along a sea coast. Special Report: The Forecast? Variable and Partly Stylish 2010-06-20T16:13:00Z

The exercise, conceptually poetic, felt much better than hitting a punching bag. Want to Change Your Life? A New Exhibition Offers a Path. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hill, in a variety of poetic forms, reworked Christian symbols, memories of childhood and Britain’s violent past in a poetic language that required much of the reader. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

But we may not be as far from such poetic conceits of the body as we like to believe. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

It's both odd and poetic to realize the town nicknamed the Dream Factory almost became the place that buried The Dreaming. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

She chose a deliberately flat literal rendering, and he decided to use a more poetic term that conveys a sense of a metropolis. ArtsBeat: Translators Get a Slam of Their Own at PEN Festival 2012-05-04T14:33:54Z

I hadn’t thought about the poem for a while, as contemporary life doesn’t leave many moments for poetic contemplation. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The dialogue on “The Heart, She Holler” buries bathroom humor in mock-Southern prolixity, and the show’s best gags achieve a sort of poetic absurdity that is equal parts Dada and Looney Tunes. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z

The series isn’t in-depth enough to tell Braddock’s whole story, or even its full outline; it’s a bit like a more poetic “Better Know a District,” the old “Colbert Report” segment. “Braddock, PA,” a Brisk, Remedial Documentary of a Rust Belt Town 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

His poetic tempo doesn’t keep Mr. Rakoff from stating harsh truths. Books of The Times: David Rakoff’s ‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish’ 2013-07-24T21:06:59Z

“The film’s humor, simultaneously giddy and satirical, is reminiscent of ‘South Park’ and the ‘Wallace & Gromit’ movies, but it’s less pointed, more poetic,” Mike Hale wrote in The Times in December. DVDs: Noirs on DVD and the American Depressive Tradition 2010-07-16T20:14:00Z

It inspires the visitor to think about the poetic work of human hands. Style: Madame Gr?s as Sculptor 2011-04-18T13:37:02Z

This poetic Life of Pi concludes with a fascinating, deliberately prosaic coda that raises questions about the reality of what we've seen and confronts the teleological issues involved. Life of Pi – review 2012-12-23T00:06:56Z

Anarchy also intrudes in less poetic forms; the "moments" of his works sometimes are frozen in time by human interference. Art of decay: John Grade's fascinating sculptures crave disintegration 2011-05-29T01:58:15Z

Namjoo's multilayered lyrics are full of opaque allusions, a subtle mix of the political and poetic that perhaps prompted the comparison to Dylan. Exiled Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo makes Northwest debut 2011-02-24T20:40:10Z

A source it says is close to the cardinals who prepared the report told La Repubblica, with equal poetic obscurity, “Everything revolves around the non-observance of the sixth and seventh commandments.” Did a gay blackmail scandal bring down the pope? 2013-02-22T19:56:00Z

Williams specified minimalism — no doors or windows — but he meant something more poetic by it. Review: Marin Ireland, on Fire in ‘Summer and Smoke’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

I found that really poetic, to link our bodies to the earth in a direct way. Artists on Artists to Watch, and Maybe Even Collect 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

In “future friend/ships,” the two stage a defiant, poetic/political work, inspired by events in Syria, that gradually transforms chaos into hope. Review: At American Realness Festival, Mirrored Movements and a Nearly Naked Yvonne Meier 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

“What she writes is closer to a poetic construction, in the sense that it’s something that can stand on its own,” Venegas said in a phone interview. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Imbrailo excels in the poignant scene where Billy sings a dreamy farewell before his hanging, achieving a rare moment, for this illiterate character, of poetic elegance. Opera Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd,’ From Glyndebourne to BAM 2014-02-09T22:34:46Z

Yet his playing abounded with milky colorings and poetic wistfulness. Review: New York Philharmonic Ushers in Carnegie Birthday Season 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Still, the shoot was a success, poetic in its own right, and gesturing toward the company’s earlier live alfresco performances and its July road trip across the country. Perspective | The best dance, on your laptop: Young risk-takers are going outdoors to create short, raw films 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Here is unbridled potential for the poetic—in everything, even in ourselves. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

No one expects a genuine theatrical, literary, poetic or artistic experience to be simply pleasurable, and the audience isn’t assumed to be incompetent or ignorant. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created

Few poets can claim a final resting place as, well, poetic as Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

In her apartment, she would write haunting, beautiful songs with a poetic honesty and melodic sophistication that set her apart from the other singers in Greenwich Village. Connie Converse: The first singer-songwriter 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

She shook her head, said Emilio always went overboard trying to be poetic and I should only listen to half of what he says. Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z

I doubt that all Korean men cry with the kind of poetic abandon their actors do on TV or go to great lengths to purchase scented candles for the woman they are pursuing. K-dramas cured my prejudice against Asian men 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

Far better is the powerful patterning of poetic imagery and rich tapestry of metaphor. Snake Ropes by Jess Richards – review 2013-01-19T19:00:04Z

About the only part of her that’s human is her soul, or “ghost” in the story’s poetic parlance. Review: In ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ a Cyborg With Soul 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The central movement of the all-male “Double” is where we’re least aware of contrivance on Mr. Morris’s part and when we most powerfully sense his gift for poetic fantasy. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

We only get fragments, delivered in a melodramatic style that can turn self-consciously poetic. 'Indecent' is a moving reminder of art's power to expose truths 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

But the key to the movie is the documentary-style perpetual wonder, the exquisite illumination of daily life as if from a force more poetic than the poetry of the stage. Postscript: Manoel de Oliveira 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

A rich and poetic exploration of grief, it is set in a barren theater with no theatrical frills. A Choreographer Diving Into Grief Looks to Whales 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

The resulting dance, “Lazarus,” is a poetic homage to Alvin Ailey, a man Mr. Harris never met but who, he said, felt like a guide during the process. A Dance Homage to Alvin Ailey as His Company Turns 60 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Several of the 2017 revivals are of one of Cunningham’s most poetic genres: the nature study. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

From the opening repetition on “No,” Adams revealed a considered originality for accentuating poetic text. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

For Arabs, the poetic form of the Qur'an is one of our cultural foundations, and Shakespeare's blend of verse and prose seems as natural as the way we think; it is the way we breathe. Why Shakespeare is … Palestinian 2012-06-11T14:10:02Z

Muti is warmly Italianate in temperament, a virtuoso of dynamism and refinement, a poetic perfectionist in matters of execution and interpretation. Haitink's mellow mastery an ideal match for CSO's power 2011-05-27T16:27:33Z

Cummings is paying homage to an Italian poetic form—the sonnetto—whose roots go back seven hundred years. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

But what’s really embarrassing is that, for some reason, Longaville has been venting his poetic side dressed in sequined hot pants with a skimpy matching vest. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ Loosely Speaking, in Central Park 2013-08-13T02:00:01Z

The latter displays Alvarez's poetic hyperawareness of lyricism and word choice, and her ability to create moments that are simultaneously poignant and hilarious showcase this mastery. Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Beth Grant plays the dead mother, who speaks in poetic monologue. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: James Franco on Adapting Novels and Multitasking 2013-05-21T19:42:37Z

It’s a very poetic phrase, which is typical of Leos. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: The Actor as Literal Shape-Shifter 2012-05-25T20:23:25Z

So read lines written by Bobbi Jene Smith in a poetic evocation of her new work, “Pit,” for the Paris Opera Ballet. Review: A Dance Gushes With an Outpouring of the Inner Self 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

In a memorable bit of poetic symmetry, he returns for these final performances, this time on the podium, helping the great ocean liner sail one last time. After 31 Years, Farewell to the Met Opera’s Grand, Gaudy ‘Aida’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

But “Life Is a Dream,” with an elegantly poetic libretto by James Maraniss, who translated, pared down and adapted the Calderón text, still languished. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z

These are represented using more abstract and poetic imagery. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

And it is central to The Borough, published almost 30 years later, which resurrected Crabbe's poetic career when most people assumed it was over. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z

He is "the poetic soul of discretion and a monument to artistry in America," Shatner once said. Radio giant Norman Corwin dies in Calif. at 101 2011-10-19T03:46:08Z

In the richness of his poetic imagination, as shown in these three etudes, Trifonov may be peerless today . Recordings in review: the Transcendental Études, twice. ​ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Köck’s text is lyrical and poetic, with rhythms and cadences of overlapping dialogue creating musical effects. Plays of Helplessness, and Hope, as the Planet Burns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

But there is also a poetic language of embodied experience, one that uses poetry to seek out the body. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

He lavished his correspondents with parody and aphorism, as well as assessments of his poetic peers. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Alamy Well, here we are in the fifth month of our poetic year. Poster poems: May 2012-05-18T12:50:18Z

It opened with Wagner's Faust Overture and ended with Liszt's Faust Symphony, both inspired by Goethe's poetic drama. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z

His son, our father, was in open rebellion against his own parents by the 1960s over his nomadic, poetic lifestyle and opposition to the Vietnam War. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

You could argue that the whole direction of 20th-century poetry was towards weeding out poetry that was "poetic". On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z

Industrial music was one poetic response to this trauma, much like country music was earlier in the history of industrialization. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

She imbues the book’s numerous poetic extracts with lyricism and devotedly preserves the rhymes and cadences of its proverbs. The First Arabic Novel to Win the International Booker Prize 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Whatever your general opinion of Mr. McCarthy’s writing — poetic and essential, or overwrought and overrated — there are times in “The Sunset Limited” when a snort or a giggle seems like the only appropriate response. Television Review: After Saving a Jumper, The Chat That Ensues 2011-02-12T00:04:03Z

Ms. Dupont is a revelation, a poetic vision of beauty and fluid grace that renders invisible her technical strength. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet?s ?Ph?dre? and ?Psych?? - Review 2011-09-28T21:04:57Z

"I mean, to be honest. Dad sounds amazing," Shiv remarks of the ways he's described by journalists doing their poetic best to refrain from speaking ill of the dead. If "Succession" is a competition that ends with a winner, we'd be foolish to count out Marcia 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

All the usual suspects are here: Ernst Gombrich's poetic Art and Illusion, Clement Greenberg's seismic Art and Culture, Alfred Barr's legendary monograph on Matisse and TJ Clark's brawny Image of the People. The Books that Shaped Art History – review 2013-04-20T10:00:01Z

Gorgeous as this visual is, it’s poetic in its restraint. Review: In ‘The Gentleman Caller,’ a Talky Tennessee Williams 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

When done right, he notes, jazz is a spontaneous form of musical magic that exists in “the realm of the poetic and miraculous.” Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Wayne collaged together images from old photographs, often printed in gradations of pale pastel colors; they yield a poetic sense of fading memories. A survey of June Wayne at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Producers of his only two albums, "Cold Fact" and "Coming From Reality," considered Rodriguez better than Bob Dylan with his poetic lyrics protesting racial and economic inequality. Finding Paul Simon, seeking "Sugar Man" at Sundance 2012-01-26T23:25:05Z

Mr. Campbell’s imaginative libretto gives everyday conversation some wistful, poetic touches. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z

The screenplay too often wanders off into poetic vagueness. Stunning visuals, wandering plot in cerebral road movie 'Here' 2012-06-21T20:24:04Z

On Saturday, for the first half of her recital, she brought poise and sensitivity to two early Brahms ballades, and then offered a rhapsodic, poetic performance of Schumann’s fantastical, challenging “Kreisleriana,” a 35-minute suite. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

However close you are to someone, however articulate, poetic, musical or compassionate you are, you will never, ever, be able to share your direct subjective experience with anyone else. The conundrum of mind and matter: what is consciousness? 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Wood emerges as a dutiful and brave guide, but one who might have been more poetic or speculative in his prose. In the age of Google Maps, why walk the 4,000 mile Nile River? Levison Wood's book explains 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Reel history: Judgment at Nuremberg – poetic justice for Holocaust perpetrators Does the demise of HMV mean disaster for British indie cinema? Close up: Save the last Sundance 2013-01-31T17:16:59Z

A kind of space goddess, she moves her mouth to the ethereal soprano voice of Eliza Bagg singing Negrón’s poetic text: “The back seat, my bed, that house, your face; you named me, protected me.” Drag Star Sasha Velour Lip-Syncs for Her Operatic Life 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject. David Foster Wallace memoir gathers acclaim 2013-06-05T14:28:41Z

Today, Farjeon tends to be viewed as old-fashioned, “poetic,” even sentimental. Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

This play with memory and longing opens into broader, poetic reflections on immigrant life. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Especially for Chou En-lai, and for Pat Nixon it’s beautiful and poetic. Renée Fleming Adds a New Role to Her Repertoire: Pat Nixon 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The so-called poetic or underground movies that he parses and praises make for a fascinating and alluring parallel world of cinema that, for the most part, sounds great until it’s actually seen. Jonas Mekas, Champion of the “Poetic” Cinema 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

In the rambling poetic writings of the Hudson River painter Thomas Cole, for instance, Mr. Mayer said, “Maybe once every thousand lines there’s a little something about pigments he used.” Antiques: Commeraw Pottery and a Siqueiros Mural 2011-10-13T20:38:56Z

Jack London's South Sea tales are full of desperate characters forced into heroism, told in a prose that is vigorous and poetic by turns. Anthony McGowan's top 10 global adventures 2012-07-05T08:00:00Z

Fortunately, the play’s the thing, and “As You Like It” is undeniably a poetic jewel. In Antaeus Theatre Company's 'As You Like It,' missed connections foil romantic comedy 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Lionel’s physical twitches and tics are often accompanied by bursts of wordplay that are more poetic than profane. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

It screamed, ‘Look at me, I’m being poetic!’ said Sondheim.” Stephen M. Silverman, Biographer of Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 71 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to be cerebral and poetic, words that seemed wholly incompatible with the accent.” Adeem the Artist, Crafting a Country Music of Their Own 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker’s poetic logic is inextricable from his consciousness of race and community, and of his function and potential as an artist grappling with his own circumstances and those of the people he’s depicting. Review: A Multiplicity of Moments in Under 80 Minutes in ‘Hale County’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Kawamoto was impressed by the way Trnka "was able to tell a story in a poetic style through the use of puppets". Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z

As the series gained momentum, it lost some sense of the poetic and melancholic. In ‘Game of Thrones,’ the Pleasures of a Quickened Pace 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Her own dazzling existence is contained within that poetic line, but it also serves to remind that words mean just as much to her as the musical atmosphere she creates. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z

And it suggests that Japanese calligraphy, whether practical or poetic, is about making marks that look indelible yet are true to the ephemeral. Art Review: ‘Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan’ Shows Detailed Efforts 2013-08-29T22:03:18Z

You're writing style is so unique — it's poetic, but really clear and has this unique cadence to it. "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

No other work has gone so far in its idiom of unbroken poetic adagio and flowing lines, suggesting impersonal rituals of movement in unbounded space. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The novel is generously condensed, ardently focused, its mechanisms poetic, not expository. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Bergman – the great poetic master of doubt, faith, love, erotic enchantment and the silence of God – was born 100 years ago this year. Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

Perhaps I should start by saying, for the benefit of any new reader, that Williams's poems address a wide range of subjects besides the spiritual, and that I chose "Rublev" for poetic, not religious, reasons. Poem of the week: Rublev by Rowan Williams 2011-07-18T11:01:24Z

Aitken's unique talent lies in his ability to project a state of poetic attentiveness onto the cityscape, translating mindfulness and wonder into imaginative architectural interventions. | Doug Aitken 2013-02-05T18:51:42Z

"I know you'll never see this but I wanted to say thank you," one waxed poetic. Cardi B teams up with Reebok for first apparel collection 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the play’s biggest problem is that the women assemble chiefly to illuminate the archly poetic central metaphor, because they don’t really seem to like one another. ‘The Blood Quilt’ is a tempest-tossed sister act 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

There's something tragically poetic about it all, really. This week's new tracks 2012-12-15T00:05:23Z

But, for myself and Pete, they marked Bruce at his apex, a jumble of loose, jazzy riffs and poetic lyrics colored with intricate rhymes. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

When moments of contemplation — sustained balances, moody breaks in the action — creep in, they read more like spots for them to catch their breath than poetic pauses in the storm. Review: Who Will Save the World? This Dance Leaves It to the Kids 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

I loved that they had such complicated interior lives and poetic vision, but then spoke to each other in language that was real and true. Jesmyn Ward: By the Book 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

For nearly 40 years he has stoutly and quietly stood his poetic ground, seeking that sweetness. Books of The Times: ‘Darkness Sticks to Everything’ Surveys Tom Hennen’s Poems 2013-06-05T20:34:35Z

She wouldn’t be my top choice, but there would be some poetic justice to it nonetheless. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

This in part he did through challenging poetic conventions. Why Adonis should win the Nobel 2010-10-06T14:00:00Z

“The branches of art grow in the souls of human beings in different ways,” he said, calling this particularly poetic interpretation of his own cinematic art “a branch with flowers.” For ‘Revenant’ filmmaker, gore isn’t the core of his movie 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The book is a journey through an increasingly poetic landscape where the differences between the external and internal landscapes steadily diminish. Our pursuit of spring continues, 100 years after Edward Thomas's 2013-03-28T13:57:39Z

But whatever message Ms. Kawakubo wanted to express, the process was poetic, personal and quite beautiful. Fashion Review: Phoebe Philo at Celine and Haider Ackermann on Paris Catwalks 2011-10-02T18:48:42Z

Federico Garcia Lorca’s poetic tragedy from 1934 about a childless woman in rural Spain was transported into the London of the 21st century by the playwright and director Simon Stone. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Phrases like "I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets in this back garden" and "Everyone's very, very nervous" echo through the action so that they acquire a poetic intensity. London Road – review 2012-08-13T15:25:21Z

He brought anime into our visual language and this poetic interpretation, "the void," which was like an abstract, experimental theater interpretation of boxing. "Like photographing sculpture": Cinematographer reveals what makes "Creed III" look so good 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

It would be easy to wax poetic about “numinous passages to other spheres,” which is what a portal provides. Keith Sonnier's neon drawings open portals to another place 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Yet even under these daunting circumstances, Mr. Gilbert appeared relaxed, bringing discipline to the work’s wilder moments and a poetic introspection to its quiet passages. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-18T21:42:45Z

In Mr. Girard’s poetic 2013 production, blood is a central visual element. Watch the Met Opera Stage a Sea of Blood 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The album’s lyrics conform to rock rather than to theatrical music, favoring poetic abstractions over clear narrative. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra Finds Herself in a Concept Album 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Henderson says in her poetic and philosophical narration that she discovered the book while searching for answers to a friend’s suicide. ‘This Much We Know’ Review: Asking Why After a Friend’s Death 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

But mostly this is an “inflow” of poetic fathers. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Morrison also talked a lot of poetic mumbo-jumbo, some of it interesting, some of it absurd—shifting from high diction to low—and maybe these qualities fed into Billy, or at least into the story. David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Pop even ventured into the poetic with a track from his solo years, “The Passenger,” his penultimate song. Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z

Her dramas are at once painterly and playful, poetic and political, didactic and open-minded, emotionally grounded and stylistically oblique. In 'The Conduct of Life,' witness an American classic that's more often taught than staged 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

As she paints images for us of Daniel's brief life under the waves as a seal, she shows writing of the highest order: subtle, powerful, poetic. The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan ?review 2012-02-10T22:56:00Z

Then he rapped sublime, poetic brags over it, about how, "When the plush crush through / you just ain't ready." Album of the year: "Black Up" by Seattle's Shabazz Palaces 2011-06-24T15:54:07Z

They are known as punks and jailbait and everyone defers to them, everybody spoils them as people do to what they recognize as poetic. Television Review | 'N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz': Reimagining Jerome Robbins? ?Ballet in Sneakers? 2010-03-23T22:17:00Z

Bond also pins down the lack of correspondence between poetic greatness and domestic bliss: Bond's Shakespeare bars his bedroom door to his imploratory wife and daughter. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z

This modern version - performed this week for about 450 Cook County jail inmates - is a rhyming, rapping, poetic homage to the Bard. Hip-hop 'Othello' resonates behind bars 2013-08-30T13:57:05Z

But it is, in fact, gentle and soothing, a poetic balance of subtle spices such as dried limes, saffron and rosewater. A foodie tour of Iran: it's poetry on a plate 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

It sounded like a fine idea at the time — pair two poetic giants of different generations and get them to collaborate on reinventing an American classic. Bob Dylan’s First Musical Had a Devil of a Time 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

While this reaction is an understandable one, why settle for poetic justice in lieu of the real thing, especially when most of those inhabitants remember the bad old days of disinvestment and urban decay? Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z

“Bag” is not particularly intimate or confessional, but Gold’s specifics still feel special, poetic even. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

It also appears to pass judgment on the Hold Steady’s sixth album, “Heaven Is Whenever,” which enlarges the band’s poetic bar-band style, redolent of Thin Lizzy and Bruce Springsteen, just a bit. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z

The group lifted up a single motionless man, offering a poetic analogy for masculine fragility and solidarity. Brand to Know: An Emerging Line That Explores Black Masculinity 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Taiye Selasi writes with glittering poetic command, a sense of daring, and a deep emotional investment in the lives and transformations of her characters. Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi – review 2013-04-03T08:00:04Z

It anticipates his diary films in its use of a poetic voice-over, focus on the artist’s friends and interest in recording their scene. Jonas Mekas’s Debut Is an Artifact of Beat-Era New York 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Shamelessly kitschy and often puzzling, the results were also thoughtful, witty and poetic. Design: Erupting Beauty at Furniture Show 2010-04-18T16:11:00Z

He was a master of whimsy, of the omniscient and poetic observation. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

By the turn of the nineteen-seventies, many critics in Britain and in Ireland saw Heaney as the leading poetic talent of his generation. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Large paintings from the 1950s through the 1990s illustrate Frankenthaler’s inventive, poetic use of color in abstractions inspired by nature. Notable Museum Openings This Spring and Summer 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Her work is certainly odd, but it's also poetic, passionate, and precisely crafted. Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in 'Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Perry always manages to mete out poetic justice in his books’ final moments. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z

Given over to the poetic hands of the pianist Sarah Cahill, the results are delicate miniatures that unfold quietly and calmly. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

From the flower-power anthems to the heavy metal lixx, the crowd knew every word – a poetic if unexpected fate for the band once forced to open for a puppet show. This Is Spinal Tap at 35: the faux-rockers reunite at Tribeca film festival 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps he was seeking what he found a year later, his poetic muse? Our pursuit of spring continues, 100 years after Edward Thomas's 2013-03-28T13:57:39Z

A show drawn entirely from OCMA’s permanent collection focuses on works by 16 women whose art in the 1990s underwent a transformation, from overtly political to something more poetic and personal. Datebook: Two centuries of African American women, painting California, art about 'La Bestia' 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Asturias” is a case in point: he played the outer sections with energy and precision as well as nuanced dynamics, and brought a poetic, gentle touch to the central Più lento. Music Review: No Easy Road 2011-06-23T21:33:45Z

But for the most inscrutably poetic of the bunch we come back to Rooney's mad genius. Footballers draw self portraits to raise money for charity 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z

A poetic tale of loss and starting over, Julie Bertuccelli's "The Tree" centers on its title character: an enormous, sprawling fig tree that stands by the home of the O'Neil family, in the Australian countryside. 'The Tree': This sad tale will grow on you 2011-08-11T20:58:04Z

Although Johnson regarded Shakespeare as the greatest modern writer to depict our “general nature,” he preferred Tate’s “King Lear” for the poetic justice of its ending. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

So the idea was to bring to life both black-and-white photographs and drawn images through “pen strokes” of beading and layers of gray and black tulle, creating a poetic chiaroscuro effect. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z

What is more nurturing to the soul than soft-spoken British people waxing poetic over custards? Anna Kendrick in space! Idris Elba on a horse! Here's what new on Netflix in April 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

Wiseman shows a higher discourse about art—a musical discourse, a poetic discourse, a balletic discourse. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

I am not referring to the central character in Mr. Stone’s contemporary riff on Federico García Lorca’s poetic tragedy from 1934, though the same questions could certainly apply. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Throughout “Still Life with Bones,” Hagerty examines the language that surrounds political violence — its distortion by authoritarian regimes, but also its poetic use for mourning and resistance. In the Search for Latin America’s Disappeared, Memories and Evidence Entwine 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

While he has the same charming smile and supremely relaxed conversational style, he sounds different here: melancholy, earnest and poetic, direct. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

A poetic vision with intense craftsmanship seems to be the spirit of this new Paris season. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z

Dramatic instinct and poetic sensibility are the hallmarks of Eric Moe’s music; his compositional voice is always distinct, whether in works of dreamy reticence or rhythmic irascibility. A Feast of One Composer’s Dreamy Reticence and Rhythmic Irascibility 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

It’s such a poetic piece, and it’s so bewitching and hypnotic musically. With 28,000 LEDs, It’s Lights! Lights! Lights! Action! 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

In his hands, the form developed into a major feature of 20th-century poetic practice. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

McCraney’s script is quite simply an extraordinary piece of writing, idiomatic and poetic in its cadences and pleasingly serpentine in its structure. ‘High Flying Bird’ Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

And throughout, beautiful pantomime, simple yet clear, lends the dancing a rare kind of poetic prowess and urgency. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

I loved the idea of combining something poetic with something practical. Kathryn Findlay, architect – portrait of the artist 2013-04-02T14:28:56Z

His approach goes much further than even Stravinsky's did in what he does to his source material, but the poetic effect is similar. A guide to Gerald Barry's music 2013-01-07T13:16:00Z

His poetic output has also taken on a Gallic bent, with a website, Letters from Albion, featuring new posts including "Frowns and pouts in Paris and London" and "Bonjour Tristesse". Pete Doherty to star in film in France, his new spiritual home 2010-12-12T00:08:00Z

“It’s a local interpretation of modernism. It’s rougher. But it’s also quite poetic.” Rough, yet poetic: Chilean architecture has its moment 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, the picture also seemed to do something simpler and more poetic, echoing the ambivalence heard in many of the speeches before the museum’s doors were opened. Critic’s Notebook: On Day Two, a new establishment museum begins its work 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

But the text is otherwise sturdy, poetic and easy to hear. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z

He didn’t understand the lyrics, but the poetic reverie was so hypnotic that it didn’t matter. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

He had originally envisioned the final moment of “Ode,” a poetic lamentation about the effects of gun violence, to be an empty stage. At Alvin Ailey, a Quiet Disrupter With No Time for Tears 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s both pedestrian and poetic, a portal into the practices and collective memories of ballet, but also surprising, even humorous, in its juxtaposition. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

Nesboe said he would probably not use Shakespeare's own words, even though he finds them "so poetic and powerful". Crime king Jo Nesboe's tale of revenge has echoes of his own father 2014-04-10T09:28:43Z

Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, with the Russian Kirill Gerstein as soloist, was poetic and impassioned, with a verve which carried through to Prokofiev's awkward and restless Symphony No 6. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

But it is also subtle, passionate, poetic and inflected with humor. Review | Before Black Lives Matter, Black Power’s revolutionary art 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Terence Davies’s blithely unconventional biopic glides through Dickinson’s life with poetic compression and musical grace, illuminating both her temperament and the austere, intellectually intense 19th-century New England environment that nurtured and constrained her gifts. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

In his new book Mr. McClatchy pays tribute to the librettos of the Mozart operas by rendering the lines into English verse equivalents that capture some of the poetic richness and humor of the originals. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

The program emphasized the Crossing’s gift for lending social activism poetic form, as well as its uncanny array of sounds, from mere fumes to piercing, feral cries. Review: In a Gilded Space, a Choir Reflects on War and Peace 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

A performer may wax poetic about, say, a chocolate cake, but it’s hard to pay attention when another is climbing up a pole or doing back flips. Review: In This Kitchen, Upside-Down Cake Should Be on the Menu 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. Chris Marker obituary 2012-07-30T11:57:53Z

It's certainly not just a modern love affair: Aldous Huxley once claimed that if you took the avifauna out of English verse you would have to dispose of half the poetic canon. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z

Not from anything outlandish or supposedly poetic, like suicide, but from normal, natural, boring old age. When rock stars remind us of our own mortality 2010-04-27T14:15:00Z

Probably just another room, but there’s a poetic suggestiveness about it. Vilhelm Hammershoi’s Paintings at Scandinavia House 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Here some of the more notable moments from Mr. Lynch’s almost poetic appearance: David Lynch, Unsurprisingly Cryptic, in a Surprise Appearance 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

And it was also adored by the Spectator's Charlotte Moore, who called it "a remarkable piece of work – empathetic, intelligent and genuinely poetic – alpha double minus". Book reviews roundup: The Professor of Poetry, Girl Least Likely To and The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters 2013-07-12T18:00:00Z

Still, it was hardly riding into the cash-filled sunset after that poetic bit of inspiration. Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America

That he took aim at a household appliance designed to keep perishables from going bad is at once an artistically poetic act and a socially furious encounter. Jimmie Durham's art throws some well-aimed stones 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

What other artist today makes poetic drama of such variety and eloquence? Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z

McCarthy seemed like a groom left at the altar, as rep.-elect after rep.-elect rose to wax poetic in their rehearsal-dinner nominations only for the California Republican to meet the same fate. Perspective | The House speaker vote is the best thing on TV right now 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

His fierce, poetic songs had given voice to the lost and disenfranchised in Kingston and around the world. Marlon James’s ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

The reporter, who in initiating us into the war zone seems to be a stand-in for the playwright, recites a lengthy monologue that combines the prosaic and the poetic. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

“There is something nice and poetic about supporting people close to home,” Mr. Gilbert said. Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z

Not with a woman but with kirtan, poetic verses sung in adoration of the divine. My life in a turban 2012-09-11T00:00:00Z

Some distant poetic link can be felt between the inner tubes' exposed air valves and the whale's spout hole, but it is tantalizing rather than rational. Lauren Grossman at Platform Gallery: leviathans and hellmouths 2012-04-05T19:30:11Z

Advertisement The action of the play is in the rises and falls and silences of Pinter’s cryptic, poetic, highly charged dialogue. Clive Owen, Suave and Roguish, on Making His Broadway Debut in ‘Old Times’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

In a poetic, surreal manner, the play looks at how black men are raised and, too often, die. FringeNYC, a Grab Bag That Calls for Intuition, Not to Mention Dumb Luck 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

In between the clunky scene changes and odd pauses, however, there are two parallel speeches, poetic and emotionally raw, that are shocking in their contrast. Poke/Wuthering Heights – review 2013-04-24T16:47:25Z

These famous closing lines from “Diving Into the Wreck” are Rich’s poetic call for a new set of myths; by the ’70s, she was avidly writing it. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

And I’m guessing his language is an obscenely poetic as ever? Ian McShane Puts All His [Expletives] in the Right Place 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Country Girl” is, like Ms. O’Brien’s best fiction, plain-spoken and poetic in equal measure. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z

Ms. Smith contributes writings that are more abstract and poetic. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

In a kind of poetic way in my mind, it was a portrait of the Victorian era, and Queen Victoria. | Q&A: Robert Wilson on His Passion for Chairs 2011-09-21T22:57:02Z

But while much has changed in Motion's life, his poetic preoccupations have remained constant. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z

Mr. Weiser captured both the specific and elusive qualities of the poetic imagery in his compelling music, which sometimes breaks down a phrase and repeats the words, as if to get at the meaning. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church 2013-05-24T21:00:10Z

It's an epic that takes you all around the world, but the centre of the world is Paris, or Céline's delirious, slightly hallucinatory, incredibly poetic vision of it. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z

There's a wonderful poetic justice in this all happening for a production of the ultimate operatic statement of the high-maintenance drama-queen diva soprano. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Emboldened by the energy of Los Angeles hardcore but artistically powered by Captain Beefheart, the Fall and Charlie Parker, Saccharine Trust made poetic, jagged art-punk that never garnered the attention of its peers. Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Côté and Mr. Ebe were both very fine as Romeo, effortlessly releasing one poetic flight after another. Dance Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ With National Ballet of Canada, in London 2013-04-22T21:36:14Z

It’s a simple but moving image of sympathetic feeling between strangers, and a poetic evocation of our mostly unspoken — and un-called-upon — dependence on one another. Review: ‘The Fever’ Finds That Friendliness Can Be Contagious 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The title is that of a large poetic collection by the Victorian socialist writer, designer and artist William Morris. BBCSO/Davis 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z

Where poetic licence is used in the film, it works well. Why The Black Panther can hold its head up high 2012-06-06T15:46:19Z

He even manages a kind of poetic jingoism, where nearly every criticism of the United States is mere preface to an elegant and spirited defense. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

They use poetic, romantic language to adulate this criterion lota and refuse to use any other instrument, similar to seniors who reject CDs and insist that “everything sounds better on vinyl.” Secrets of the Muslim bathroom 2012-07-10T01:00:00Z

Aren’t even the best limericks just, you know, sort of amusing rather than properly poetic? There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

So I think that idea of our subconscious communicating with the audience's subconscious is kind of poetic, in terms of something that you might watch right before you go to bed. Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The celebrated musician and author looks back on her emotional 70th year — and the loss of close friends Sandy Pearlman and Sam Shepard — with poetic wisdom. New in paperback: 13 September releases worth reading 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

The soothing vibe belies the familiar existential dread in the poetic lyrics. This Week in Arts: a Menagerie, Fresh-Picked Plays and Cuban Dance 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

And Canada’s CBC is set to air a new show in February, Asking For It, which promises “artful, poetic storytelling about a queer relationship in the shadow of power, control and violence.” 'You can hear their pain': Chasing Cosby and the rise of #MeToo podcasts 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

The resulting work is a poetic exploration of themes like memory, time and music. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

In fact, it is poetic, funny and somehow – beneath all the humour – profound. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z

But the book was ultimately acclaimed as one of the most important photographic projects of the 20th century, a radical personalization of the documentary impulse into something haunted, bleakly poetic and daringly unsentimental. Perspective | Robert Frank’s photographs captured the bleak reality we’re still living in today 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s supposed to be suggestive in a poetic way.” Inside Art: MoMa PS 1 Plans 9/11 Exhibition 2011-07-28T20:48:32Z

Box tells his story in the first-rate prose his fans have come to expect: tight, precise language peppered by occasional poetic descriptions of land that both he and Joe Picket call home. Review: Joe Pickett returns in `Breaking Point' 2013-03-12T17:37:10Z

And yet the poetic vision is the one thing needful to release a spiritual power, indescribably great, for the exaltation of multitudes. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Her mind inevitably goes back to a deeper, more secret poetic space. Digested classic: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2010-04-15T11:25:00Z

Personals, with their economical writing, are by their nature poetic, and rise to the operatic in the rhythmic and lyrical speech of the junior interrogators. Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

A rootsy folk song by Mr. Sater and his “Spring Awakening” collaborator Duncan Sheik adds to the poetic spell of this evocative, if somewhat opaque, vignette. | Marathon 2011: Series B: Women Rule a Marathon of New One-Act Plays 2011-06-15T21:57:05Z

The biggest difference between Ms. Wilson’s songs and those of her teenage idols is the absence in her lyrics of a drifting poetic dreaminess. Rita Wilson at Café Carlyle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

In an email interview, Mr. Montet said his job was to “release the poetic power” of their bodies. ‘Beau Travail’ Finds the Rhythm of Life (and Dances Away the Pain) 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

The Hollywood Reporter called it “gorgeous — a small poetic wonder.” Fall Movie Release Schedule 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The book records the personal tributes and several poetic laments left by more than 800 people, many of them famous figures of the day, who travelled to the poet's final resting place. Byron memorial picked up at US church sale 2011-07-07T12:46:34Z

“Perhaps because of the profound sense of poetic resonance and visual style.” A Japanese Film Series, Brought to You by John Zorn 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Yet this slight volume of meditations on love and loss is always eloquent, by turn poetic, philosophical and autobiographical. Mohamed El Bachiri: ‘Terrorists killed my wife: this is my jihad for love’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

“It’s about a poetic truth and very heightened emotions.” Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z

It’s less intense and less poetic, but it’s more raw, chaotic and sitcom-y. Beyond ‘Fleabag’: What Else Will Quench That Quirky Thirst? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a sad, heartfelt novel, though the poetic abstractions of the writing fit awkwardly with its scenes of desert combat. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

And Ms. McFall’s libretto, for all its poetic beauties, is laden down with metaphor and symbolism. Music Review: ?Amelia? Has Its Premiere at the Seattle Opera 2010-05-09T22:10:00Z

After the second, he expressed the same view in more soaring prose, writing in the proposal for Prospect Park that its “rural, natural, tranquilizing and poetic character” would be adapted “with the greatest care.” The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Franklin wrote one of her biggest hits, “Day Dreaming,” about him, and it contained one of her most poetic lines: “When he’s lonesome and feelin’ love-starved, I’ll be there to feed it.” A-R-E-T-H-A 2011-07-09T20:19:25Z

It’s extremely poetic and introspective, almost like a Japanese nouvelle vague from the ’80s. Harold Ancart Brings His Kaleidoscopic Trees to Chelsea 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

In 2010, she joined the company, where her poetic, dramatic sensibility was quickly revealed in ballets by Jerome Robbins — she plays Maria in “West Side Story Suite” — and Christopher Wheeldon. | Lauren Lovette: Lauren Lovette Dances in New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2013-12-20T20:36:09Z

In comparison to the unbearable lightness of pomo, Zumthor's buildings contained a glimpse of a deeper, more poetic sensibility, in tune with an emerging lust for phenomenology – the philosophical study of experience – in architecture. Peter Zumthor: RIBA awards gold medal to architecture's man of mystery 2013-02-05T15:00:56Z

Even allowing for poetic license, Mr. Youn is not holding his breath for further offers of that particular role. Music: Standing Small, Singing Big, All Sulfur and Zest 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z

Chopin’s ethereal nocturnes, poetic ballades, audacious scherzos, aptly titled impromptus and lacy waltzes often sound like written-out improvisations. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

"He was compassionate and inspirational and poetic as a director," Kane recalled. Comic performer Gene Wilder kept his serious side off camera 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

The draw was “Island Night,” a 12-hour, 8-mile ramble described by its sponsor, the arts group Elastic City, as “part philosophic dialogue, part poetic reverie, part nature walk” and “an extended meditation on the present.” ‘Island Night,’ a Walk Across Fire Island 2012-09-06T22:22:25Z

Working in his cramped cellar, he arranged five-and-dime objects into richly poetic tableaus that prove that sometimes it’s better to think inside the box. These Shadow Boxes Are Striking. The Story of Their Origin Is, Too. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

And belonging to no school, it’s hard to classify, though “Francophile poetic modernist” might be a start. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

It’s time again for our own variation on the ancient Japanese poetic form called tanka, which is pretty much like haiku with two more lines tacked on, for a total of five still-little lines. Style Invitational Week 1231: TankaWanka 3 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted versifier — even his harshest critics grant that at least — accomplished in just about every poetic form, and he was a formidable linguist. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America’s No. 1 Literary Celebrity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

It’s literary because Johnston’s prose is lyrical, even poetic, to a degree rarely found in fiction, literary or otherwise. Book review: ‘Descent’ by Tim Johnston 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

David, who is given to unfortunate outbursts of clunky, poetic monologues, violates the unwritten family rule of pretending that everything is O.K. Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman in David Rabe's 'Sticks and Bones' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Dawkins rightly says that this sounds very nice but is surely nothing more than poetic language. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

He was known as a careful poetic craftsman and easily adapted to diefferent styles. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

But this too, is less assuring than he imagines it to be lending him, at best, a poetic explanation for why fate has dealt him a terrible hand. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

The last shot is dynamite: a poetic crawl up the edge of a pyramid, rising in agonising, mesmerising degrees with seemingly no end in sight. Cannes 2012 review: After the Battle 2012-05-17T13:48:27Z

A poetic, beautifully achieved "underwater" sequence at the start, in which three acrobats twirl in an aquatic wonderland, suggested a more delicate approach than proved the case. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

One vignette turns surreal, evoking the poetic paintings of Hughie Lee Smith: A group of excited boys converge on a man selling balloons in a decrepit empty lot. Garrett Bradley Reminds Us That Black Joy Always Existed 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Helmchen performed with a warm, fluid touch and poetic nuance in the slower sections, highlighted inner voices in the more tumultuous movements and sustained momentum throughout — no small feat. Music Review: Martin Helmchen at the Frick Collection - Review 2011-11-03T00:11:37Z

The result was extraordinarily poetic, as though the men appeared through a mirage of seven veils. Special Report: Fashion: Romance at Work 2011-06-27T15:57:04Z

But poetic coherence counts for little in the theater unless it assumes palpable human life. Theater Review | 'A Lie of the Mind': Home Is Where the Soul Aches 2010-02-19T04:40:00Z

And in her view, “it’s really important for people to connect themselves to their poetic past.” Burns Night in the Age of Brexit and Trump 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

The clarity of statement brings home to us, as we read, the organic defect of the theatre itself; the fundamental lack of what may be called the poetic attitude. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

T-shirts — so simply cut but so exquisitely embroidered — were another example of the plebeian made poetic. Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z

So when Littlefinger told Lysa he never loved her and pushed her out of the Moon Door, it seemed like a bit of poetic justice. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Although she writes in prose, Miller hews to the poetic timber of the epic, with a rich, imaginative style commensurate to the realm of immortal beings sparked with mortal sass. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

I decided to shoot in black and white because I wanted to make an art film for young people, and black and white gives a quality of poetic realism. How we made ... Francis Ford Coppola and Stewart Copeland on Rumble Fish 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

This month he will release an album, “Blues for Memo,” featuring an all-star quartet, as well as cutting poetic commentary from Saul Williams. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Ms. Morrison crafts muscular sentences that accumulate a poetic force, even when the staging is static. | 'Desdemona': ?Desdemona? at Lincoln Center White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z

This interest in the subconscious is one poetic strand of several that connect Sara to her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z

Yet something is poetic about it, and attractive: In a group of fellow sufferers, you might say each is a weak solution of the same disease. My life needs a purpose 2013-01-30T01:00:00Z

The intoxication of “Dance Nation” was the ambiguity between child and performer — the poetic text required the costumes to support the hopefulness of youth while honoring the maturity of the performers. Theater’s Latest Prompt: Don’t Act Your Age! 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Think of it more as a dreamy, poetic character study. What You Should Watch This Memorial Day Weekend 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The novel is a leviathan of a read, thick with allegory, Scripture and some of the most poetic and dense writing in the English language. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z

At her best, she uses her poetic instincts to load even simple moments with poignancy, such as when Abdul thinks of his mom. Sapphire's 'The Kid': The son of Precious Jones navigates the urban minefield 2011-07-14T21:10:28Z

There's fear and horror, of course, but also boredom and excitement; some are direct and descriptive, others poetic and elegiac. Bang Goes the Theory 2010-09-07T23:04:00Z

It is a romantic novel, suffused with melancholy and poetic longing and sometimes interrupted by impulsive actions with a fairly high #MeToo quotient. ‘The Tale of Genji’ and the Art It Inspired 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

In his informative, expansive and affable introduction, Weiner credits the development of Sachs’s poetic voice to her translation work, her absorption of modernist techniques and the horror of the times. Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

He is a more interior and poetic artist who shows how objects can be entrusted to express feelings and ideas, conjuring presences and absences. All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

From everything I’ve seen and heard, I believe David Milch was one of those people, and it showed in his elliptical but poetic scripts. A Third Horse Dies, and HBO Cancels Luck 2012-03-15T13:22:34Z

The prose isn't, it has to be said, poetic and languorous, and one twist in particular is hopelessly obvious. The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z

But Lim’s preternaturally poised and poetic, tautly exciting Rachmaninoff deserved the clicks. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Davis’ stories are often poetic and witty at the same time. A reading list for your Memorial Day weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

But whereas Mr. Shaw looks to amateur paintings and kitschy religious artifacts with the eye of a connoisseur, Mr. Oursler is less discriminating about visual or poetic qualities. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“The balance between beautiful poetic movement, language and extreme brutality is just incredibly honest,” he added. Harrison David Rivers Wins 2018 Relentless Award 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Operating under a grand, Whitmanesque vision of poetic possibilities, Espada pulls together the political and personal into one literary constellation, flashing lights that expose both injustice and opportunities for solidarity. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Religion he sees, rightly, as a poetic response to the world and our predicament in it. The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z

“Limbo,” written and directed by a ferociously talented filmmaker, Ben Sharrock, takes an insinuating, poetic and often wryly funny approach. ‘Limbo’ Review: A Musician in Exile Tunes Out 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

But I do believe in the kind of poetic truth Aristotle speaks about. Jordi Savall Evokes the Past by Hearing Its Music 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z

The word choices, visuals and overall poetic care are important here. Review: Frye show strikes balance between family history, social commentary 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The festival’s work tends shortish in length, intimate in size, and darkish, ambiguous and poetic in mood. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes This year, as anyone of a poetic temperament cannot fail to have noticed, is the 60th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s suicide. Cultural Studies: Seeing Sylvia Plath With New Eyes - Cultural Studies 2013-05-03T22:54:52Z

Written in the early 1940s as a relief for O’Neill after the heavy lifting of “Journey” and “Iceman,” “Hughie” lasts only an hour in performance, and it has the poetic single-mindedness of a short story. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Times in 1991 as looking "like Robert Redford playing the part of a tenured professor," enjoyed a certain kind of poetic celebrity during the early 1970s. Former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand dies at 80 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

Still, this is a movie that prioritizes language—Wilson’s poetic, furious patois of black working-class Pittsburgh, a gift to actors like Washington and Viola Davis. Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

The truth of the Exodus story is poetic—it is the quintessential story of oppression and liberation. How Christian Bale's 'Exodus' Strays from the Bible 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

And she dissects its main characters with poison in her pen and poetic punch in her delivery. Maureen Dowd’s Latest Book on Everything Hillary and Donald 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

There's the literary, the poetic, the philosophical, the psychological, the historical, the anthropological. Oscar Week: Best Supporting Actor Nominee Christoph Waltz 2010-03-05T07:30:00Z

All are rendered humble, human, particular and luminous in Harding’s long, poetic sentences. In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Cast members took turns sitting at the room’s outer edges and standing, pacing, collapsing, and writhing while speaking Barthelme’s poetic and inexplicably hilarious lines about failure, desire, shower curtains, and other problems. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

There’s no justification in the novel for these people to speak aloud in these poetic ways. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: James Franco on Adapting Novels and Multitasking 2013-05-21T19:42:37Z

And Mr. Broderick’s Shepherd-esque descriptions of how youngsters see department store Santas and parental punishments were as humorously poetic in the musical as in the movie. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Williams and Uzeyman marry anarchist politics with anarchist aesthetics, making something that feels both handmade and high-tech, digital and analog, poetic and punk rock. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Using nature and the body, the videos are a poetic, poignant response to the times, from the coronavirus pandemic to the death of George Floyd in police custody. Note to Dancers: ‘Drop Your Self-Consciousness’ and Get Into It 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere it is as bleakly poetic as a son blowing on his dead father’s ashes, which drift and disperse like a cloud in the wind. Theater Review | 'A Lie of the Mind': Home Is Where the Soul Aches 2010-02-19T04:40:00Z

From there, the circles of hell serve as ready-made divertissements, characterful episodes that conjure, however obliquely, the poetic justice delivered to Dante’s sinners. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Most crucially, perhaps, the libretto itself, containing numerous outside texts, including Thunberg’s “How dare you” speech to the United Nations, neither hangs together nor gives any sense of a narrative or a poetic progression. Plays of Helplessness, and Hope, as the Planet Burns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

But West-Bey wanted a different kind of liveliness and intentionally avoided creating a museum of poetic history or of art about poetry. A poetry museum that eschews having a home 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

In a poetic, digitally animated landscape that will unfold across the 50-foot media wall in the lobby, Satterwhite plans to tell a story about the past, present and future of the New York Philharmonic. Artists Are Putting Their Stamp on Lincoln Center 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t gaze at his navel so much as wax poetic about it. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z

Mr. Benning’s work is formally lean and austerely poetic; Mr. Hutton’s more humanistic, poignant and political. James Benning and Peter Hutton: ‘Nature Is a Discipline’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Brown’s dancing — his body — is at the root of his poetic, rapturous works. Ronald K. Brown Has a Mantra: ‘Absolute Victory Every Day’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Their works hint at recognisable emotions in richly poetic ways. This Valentine's Day: art with a heart 2013-02-14T12:17:47Z

"Lowery is hardly the first filmmaker to crib Malick's poetic aesthetic, but his clear confidence in aspiring to the same sort of enrapturing experience is undeniably impressive," said the film magazine Screen International. 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' offers new take on American outlaw films 2013-08-15T20:50:01Z

I no longer crave the stunning, visceral travel experiences of my youth; now I look for quieter, simpler, more poetic experiences. Q&A: ‘Always Journeying to Someplace New Gets Old Fast’ 2014-01-14T20:23:22Z

Yet despite passages of affecting dialogue and poetic quotations from Gospels and Psalms, the libretto is long and wordy and sounds even more so in Mr. Adamo’s often ponderous musical setting. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z

“I became aware that in Hank’s recorded songs were the archetype rules of poetic songwriting,” he wrote. Music: Bob Dylan Assembles ?The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams? 2011-09-23T19:16:45Z

In this poetic and often dark adventure tale, two children from the Turkic-speaking Uyghur minority embark on a trek across the desert of northwestern China to find their herder parents. Hong Kong film festival offers view of a changing China 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Here, however, the voice is less poetic and more terse, like the patter of a hard-boiled detective from a classic film. The Dystopia Has Just Arrived 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

Bloom’s project is ostensibly to trace the idea of the daemonic sublime, defined as “the god within who generates poetic power,” through the work of 12 canonical American writers. Harold Bloom takes on 12 American greats in ‘The Daemon Knows’ 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Using clear precedent, poetic language, and appeals to morality, Francis Scott Key argued that the hundreds of African captives found aboard the Antelope should be returned to Africa and freedom. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

What it lacks in traditional poetic skill it more than makes up for in passion for its subject. Robin Ince's top 10 truly bad books 2010-07-05T13:23:00Z

How on earth, in the 21st century, was it possible for me, or for anyone, to succumb to such poetic confusion? A Turkish Idyll Lost in Time 2011-07-08T19:03:11Z

It’s a poetic notion, all the more so for its nostalgic charm arising from an act of metaphysical villainy. “Ghostbusters”: Bland, Mechanical, and Completely Worth Seeing 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Far from discouraging his son’s feelings for an older man, the character waxes poetic about the importance of experiencing the magnitude of both first love and first heartbreak. Tiffany Haddish and Mary J. Blige are among nine movie scene-stealers from 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The use of the Bhagavad Gita throughout keeps the opera enigmatic and poetic, endowing Gandhi’s evolution from lawyer to activist with epic grandeur. A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

McCarthy’s speech was nothing if not dizzying, in the most poetic way. Hammer Museum gala: Where Aloe Blacc, Paul McCarthy, Julia Roberts cross paths 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The second book — alas for the poetic resonance of the first! — is a defense of the typical American funeral as the best way for the living to honor the memory of the dead. Revisiting Thomas Lynch and American Funerals 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

There’s a poetic sense of continuity between Ms. Rabe’s characterization as Portia and the emotional empowerment of her mother’s most emblematic role. Qualities of Mercy and Strength 2010-12-03T22:00:00Z

Foreign painters encountered works by Caravaggio and Raphael, themselves inspired by archaeological sites and the naturalistic and poetic paintings of Giorgione and Titian. In Transit: At Prado in Madrid, Rome's Artistic Influence 2011-07-12T10:00:35Z

While there’s the occasional amusingly idiosyncratic section of dialogue that sounds like a series of stagily poetic non-sequiturs, much of the couple’s bonding feels straightforward and unremarkable. ‘Cicada’ Review: A New Relationship Buds as Old Wounds Reopen 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Zapata’s carefully crafted prose oscillates between matter-of-fact and lyrically poetic, a tonal range that provides a very pleasant reading experience. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Skinner’s “proof” that Shakespeare was not particularly inclined toward poetic alliteration was incorrect, and he is as likely to refer to Robert Frost and Thomas Pynchon as to such mathematical titans as R.A. “How Not to Be Wrong”: What the literary world can learn from math 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Something like that is happening in our poetic inheritance. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

But the revised lines can sporadically be startlingly, fleetingly poetic and revealing as well, if you listen carefully. ‘A Piece of Work’: ‘Hamlet’ for the computer age 2013-02-23T23:13:22Z

In separate, poetic monologues delivered by Marie and Bruce, describing what they did just before the party, the city becomes a fairy-tale forest of dark enchantment, a place of secret gardens and mysterious encounters. | 'Marie and Bruce': There?s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour 2011-04-06T03:00:05Z

He was attacked as a dilettante, one whose music wavered between bombast and bizarrerie, whose poetic productions mixed platitude and gibberish. Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Klein, Layton’s teacher, had been there in the thirties, studied law, and went on to simultaneously write “The Rocking Chair,” a poetic tribute to French Canada, and edit The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the wonderful “Shimmering Substance” of 1946 — the very title is a poetic tribute to paint — Pollock covers the surface with juicy commalike curls and circles, mostly in light-filled yellows and whites. Review: Drips, Dropped: Pollock and His Impact 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

This is the poetic equivalent of your dad showing up at a school function wearing mom jeans and thinking he’s both hip and cool, then using those exact words to describe himself when you protest. “Have They Run out of White Poets Yet?”: Asian writers mock Calvin Trillin’s New Yorker poem on Chinese food 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The print mediums expand, incorporating new techniques like digitalization as well as antique fabrics and poetic texts. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Saar’s best work is always like this: limber, responsive, unforced, poetic. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Metro Manila isn't as brutal as The Raid or as fanciful as Monsters, but it is poetic, honest and at times almost upsettingly real. Sundance film festival 2013: Metro Manila – first look review 2013-01-25T12:56:14Z

That might not be a proper term, but no proper term suits the ensuing gestural weirdness, instrumental weirdness, vocal weirdness, electronic weirdness and poetic weirdness. Monday Evening Concerts is back with a bang, whimper, whistle, click and clang in 'Sideshow' 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Nearly every canvas here is a different excursion into paint, materiality and poetic suggestion. Review: Joan Miró, ‘Oiseaux Dans l’Espace’ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Now here he is, giving a powerful and delicately calibrated solo performance in his poetic first play, “Peddling,” staged in the round at 59E59 Theaters. Theater Review: ‘Peddling,’ in Brits Off Broadway, Plumbs a Youth’s Soul 2014-05-03T00:25:16Z

Jay Leno, as affably efficient backstage as he is in front of the camera, avoids waxing poetic about his 22-year "Tonight Show" run that draws to a close Thursday. Leno: 2nd 'Tonight exit' is quits for late-night 2014-02-03T21:28:20Z

In a particularly poetic gesture, many of the scientists left their own fingerprints on the inside of the container cap. This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

But Sheng also needs a poetic text to inspire a vocal style. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Her master’s program at Bard College — overseen by Dawn Upshaw, herself a soprano who charted a maverick course in contemporary music — was more grounded, guiding Ms. Bullock toward the in-depth study of poetic song texts. ‘This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For’: A Diva on the Precipice 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

This program at Wave Hill, the Bronx garden, draws on writings that were as poetic as they were political: the work of Maya Angelou. For Children Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Still, the main attraction of Mr. LeDray’s sculpture is his heartfelt, poetic way with American male apparel. Art Review: Getting Small: A Man?s World, in Miniature 2010-12-02T22:49:00Z

The through line of Bangs’ ongoing search for Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” is a thin connective tissue, and a repetitious quality emerges amid the stream-of-consciousness recountings and poetic realizations. 'How to Be a Rock Critic': The manic, riveting return of Lester Bangs 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Representatives of the proletariat, the slumming Socialists and the Park Avenue swells all have a lot to say, in what is sometimes very clunky, symbolically strained poetic prose. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

In interviews, Mr. Axel said “Babette’s Feast” was his most gratifying work because it tested his ability as a storyteller and as a translator of another writer’s poetic imagery. Gabriel Axel, Director of ‘Babette’s Feast,’ Dies at 95 2014-02-12T17:17:48Z

But there is a strong link between the two poetic sources, as both were inspired by early medieval Arabic poetry from Andalusia. Of Countertenors, Medieval Poetry and Capturing a Silvery Tone 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The alley-like street is lined with tiny bars and dusty art galleries, as well as crumbling homes wedged between bathtubs installed in cement walls and adorned with the poetic stanzas of Cuba’s alternative writers. Sad eyes and a yearning heart: A young man’s daily odyssey in post-Castro Havana 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Though their individual poetic style and tone are completely different, together they build a perfect and true sonnet with both literal and figurative levels of meaning. Elizabeth Wein's top 10 dynamic duos in fiction 2013-06-20T12:33:58Z

The result is a diverse if uneven show that sounds notes of humor, street-art swagger, gender confusion, poetic reverie and more. ‘Kingdom of Glass’ on view at Nordic Heritage Museum 2014-01-02T22:51:10Z

Among the most stark and poetic of doomsday cinema is "The Road," based on the story by Cormac McCarthy about a man and his son traveling like vagabonds through a scoured landscape of post-Armageddon. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

And he found his truth through that process, which I found poetic and primitive and beautiful. Michael Keaton, Alejandro Iñárritu detail bumpy flights in 'Birdman' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Heavy-handed Israeli authorities jail a poetic soul in “Ulysses on Bottles,” an 80-minute play that reasonably attacks injustice while drifting toward bland melodrama. Review | Mosaic’s ‘Ulysses on Bottles’ uncorks Israel’s occupied mind 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

“Hadestown,” a pulsing, poetic contemporary riff on an ancient Greek myth, won the Tony Award for best new musical Sunday night, triumphing over film adaptations, a musical comedy and a jukebox show. ‘Hadestown’ Triumphs at 2019 Tony Awards 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z

The event creates a slide show of poetic fragments. Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

The show’s largest piece, a sculptural environment by the contemporary Mexican artist Damián Ortega, is more poetic than practical. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Reopens 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The proposed assemblage in Kensington does not yet have these kinds of poetic resonances. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z

A lot of the lyrics on this record are like most of what you've written in the past: Abstract, poetic. Kim Gordon on "No Home Record" and why "palatable" art doesn't affect change 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

That he stormed the discothèque on the strength of a decadently elongated bootleg is a bit of poetic justice. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

His film short “Sangam,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was praised by Greg Tate of The Village Voice as “an elegant and poetic evocation of immigrant angst, memory and haunted spirituality.” Prashant Bhargava, Filmmaker of ‘Patang (The Kite),’ Dies at 42 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Persaud displays an ease in inhabiting each of these distinct, colloquial yet poetic voices, jumping back and forth between them without losing each speaker’s unique personality. In Contemporary Trinidad, a Widow Rediscovers the Meaning of Home 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Produced by Manhattan Theater Club and directed by Saheem Ali, “Sugar in Our Wounds,” set in the antebellum South, is an old-fashioned weepie written in lush, poetic dialect, with up-to-date interests and politics. Review: ‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ May Make You Cry About the Past, and the Present 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

In hindsight, it’s rather poetic that George Martin’s son would be the one to shed a modern light on McCartney. Has Paul McCartney Been Holding Back? 2013-10-17T09:45:36Z

“Tell me one thing: if another man said your name, would it still sound poetic?” he sings, and the part is his. Review: The Jamie Foxx Album ‘Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses’ 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

People usually identify the Spanish with flamenco, yet the much-treasured but lesser-known genre of copla, poetic songs describing ordinary life, has been popular since it gained widespread recognition in the 1930s. Buika, Genre-Busting Artist, Plays Berlin 2010-04-25T10:01:00Z

Mr. Wigon ultimately takes refuge in the poetic, but for Cody and Virginia, it feels like too little, too late. ‘The Heart Machine’ Explores Human Connection 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

To preserve the intensity of the fear and emotion reported by participants, Williams chose to present their questionaire responses in poetic structures. Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

“We’re trying to walk this line between maintaining the metaphorical and poetic world, and also trying to deliver a satisfying story,” Ms. Mitchell said. An Unexpected New Stop on the Road to Broadway: Edmonton 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Profanity can be amusing or dramatic or, on rare occasions, poetic, but used this obsessively, it simply becomes a distraction from what’s good about the book. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

The song has two long tangled verses, but separating them down into poetic stanzas gives me the opportunity to pluck the images that were defining a poor Black early '90s experience. I always loved hip-hop, but Nas transformed me into a fan, which ultimately changed my life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

But there is, after all, a certain poetic sentiment animating Mr. Downes’s art, which finds something miraculous and even beautiful in marginal places. Art Review: Rackstraw Downes Landscapes in Three Shows 2010-07-15T21:53:00Z

I was left hoping that the wood has not been treated in any way to preserve it, that this statue will slowly decay and crumble, which would complete its poetic mission. Sculpture shows by Emilie Brzezinski, Bernardi Roig diverge sharply in theme

The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy waxed poetic on stage, warning of the “black tide of homophobia.” France Debates Gay Marriage 2013-02-01T21:10:09Z

Poet and critic Matthew Zapruder, author of the book “Why Poetry,” doesn’t criticize the delivery system, but says Kaur’s work rejects traditional poetic qualities. Instapoet Rupi Kaur may be controversial, but fans and book sales are on her side 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

But he did find his poetic calling there, as he writes about in “The Red Coal,” a 1981 poem. Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Anderson’s contribution is a three-minute cut of her documentary “Heart of a Dog” — a poetic visual essay about, among other things, the journey from life to the afterlife. Laurie Anderson Puts on a Concert for Dogs in Times Square 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

It’s lovely, even poetic, sometimes, but ambient — the show surrounds you more than it comes toward you. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Queen Sugar’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

But of course, it’s not all just metaphors and poetic emotions. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

It’s also that this intense intermissionless piece, directed by Tom Story, unleashes a flood of gritty, poetic language quickened by a sneaky riptide of narrative. ‘Terminus’ barrels onto Studio’s 2ndStage 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

The charm of his lines — and their power, because his work has a way of disarming you and pulling you in again and again — often comes from his allergy to anything pretentious or even “poetic.” Review: Looking Inward in Poetry Books From Ron Padgett and Nick Flynn 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Described as a "poetic documentary about the nature of happiness", What Is This Film Called Love? is the debut feature by critic Mark Cousins. PJ Harvey contributes two new songs to Mark Cousins documentary 2012-05-17T10:37:33Z

While critics are rightfully praising its poetic ambition and inventive storytelling, most listeners will only stow away on this voyage with Dylan once or twice before abandoning ship for good. Bob Dylan Creates a Perfect Storm on Tempest 2012-09-12T14:45:37Z

They channeled the same observational and poetic skills they bring to their songwriting to the telling of different facets of their life stories. Dear John Fogerty: Here's why your new autobiography needs more music tales and less score settling 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

In the chasm between those two poetic ifs—one celebrating heroism and manhood, the other unmasking the men who manipulate such useful ideals—lies the tragic irony of Rudyard Kipling and the war. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The poetic and idiosyncratic influence of Robert Frank, with whom Mr. Lyon shared his first film camera, is evident. Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Keys, who is not an investor in the studio but has been an active supporter of the project, has a more poetic take on the value of recording space in New York. New Studio Harks Back to a Musical Golden Age 2011-01-25T23:06:56Z

It was the only duff note in Natalie Press's otherwise haunting portrayal of Catherine, and sounded absolutely ludicrous, smashing the poetic beauty and structure of the speech. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z

It's tempting to say cliches, but these cliches were poetic enough to be used by Shakespeare, from the melancholy of love to the rage of jealousy. Is Shakespeare Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? 2012-08-28T12:54:58Z

Even as she approaches a breakdown and partakes in suicidal ideation, the writing maintains a glassy, poetic remove. Review | Emma Glass’s ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ powerfully describes what it means to be a health-care worker 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Other ensembles are scarcely less poetic: The human waves in which Tom and his classmates twice cross the stage are the kind of interlude that makes theater thrilling. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z

Harold Bloom has called Williams "the most literary of our major dramatists," a direct descendant of Hart Crane in both poetic intensity and self-destructive fervor. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Her father worked for the Royal Mail, her mother was a school administrator, and the family subscribed to The Observer Magazine, which featured Nigel Slater’s elegant, almost poetic food column. Ruby Tandoh Just Wants You to Eat What You Love 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Sue de Beer’s video “The Blue Lenses” is hallucinatory, obliquely political and intensely poetic. A Video Artist Playing With Themes of Orientalism 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

The designer’s collection on Wednesday was poetic, peaceful, magical even. Fashion Review: Nature Takes Over at Alberta Ferretti 2014-02-19T19:11:36Z

Still, though his music generally lacks the profundity of Beethoven’s or Schubert’s, it is dazzling, harmonically innovative, poetic and exciting. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z

While others waxed poetic about Angelou and her affect on them, Lee Daniels, the Oscar-nominated director of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Lee Sapphire," kept his words simple. Maya Angelou throws garden party for 82nd birthday 2010-05-20T22:46:00Z

One of her lodestars was Anton Chekhov, whose “bark of the prosaic,” she wrote in her book about him, “encases a story’s vital poetic core.” Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

But where Weller's play sticks in my mind as a portrait of a lost generation, marooned between old values and new freedoms, Baker's piece emerges as a cryptic poetic fragment. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z

Others will be satisfied by Mr. Albenda’s poetic wit and eccentric perfectionism and the dry, but sensuous fabric of his work. Art in Review: RICCI ALBENDA 2010-10-08T06:59:00Z

There’s no real suspense in the inevitable poetic justice as Brock gets his comeuppance, with lectures and deflating punchlines on democracy and a free press included. Review | The moralizing 1946 comedy ‘Born Yesterday’ is not dead yet 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

At 72, he’s retained a seeker’s curiosity, the poetic spirit that set them apart and the atavistic energy found in most great drummers. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The chalkboard menu is written in a graceful cursive and in utilitarian block letters, the poetic and prosaic together on a blackboard that’s bookended by weathered green shutters. Banh Ta Deli review: Where Vietnamese sandwiches pack in artistry and balance 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

I thought it was really well structured, especially the way some of the poetic raps linked the story. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z

His buttoned-up temperament, though, makes him a perfect representative of the paradox of space travel, a wildly poetic venture undertaken by men whose survival depended on the prose of memos and the music of calculus. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s not poetic at all. It doesn’t create any empathy. He’s like a weak animal in the herd, and it creates aggression more than sympathy.” Tension-inducing Swedish comedy ‘Force Majeure’ lays bare a man’s cowardice

To illustrate, he waxed poetic about biking with his children and being captivated by the aroma of the hay in the fields. At the Inn at Little Washington, a bittersweet reunion dinner, minus one

This installation is poetic, cloud-like, and contemporary, with a little craft mixed in. Why is airport art so lame? 2012-09-27T21:36:00Z

He hires artists to create pieces for his stores, like the poetic Robert Montgomery light sculpture that hangs in the SoHo store. Front Row: Retailing as a Forum for Art 2013-09-04T20:24:13Z

True to its title, “Numerator” is, in one sense, a poetic math game, with images of a whole fractionating into separate parts. Lou Harrison and Mark Morris: a grand partnership of music and movement 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Paterson” offers Paterson a series of counterlives, a trio of men who don’t have an inherently poetic woman like Laura in their lives. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” and the Myth of the Solitary Artist 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Let’s bring back meter, rhyme, alliteration, poetic form. Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Yet at its core, art song is a genre in which music is put, sensitively and compellingly, at the service of poetic texts. Two Singers Reveal the Core of Art Song, on Stages Big and Small 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Poetry” is not a word often associated with the Golden Globes, but there was something poetic in the surroundings this year. At the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais Holds Nothing Back 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

This latest article from a major national newspaper waxed poetic about kids and the new Pokémon craze. The dangers of Pokémon Go: Kids’ brains are vulnerable to virtual and augmented reality 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Our columnist Marilyn Stasio praised the novel and its central character, writing that “Anderson rewards him with a deadly adventure and the most poetic prose this side of Salt Lake City.” New in Paperback: ‘What Happened,’ ‘A Good Country’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

At the time, Chase didn’t know if he would get a second season, so Season 1 comes to a satisfyingly poetic conclusion. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

A poetic tribute to African-American resilience, proclaiming joy and pride in the accomplishments of artists, athletes, leaders and thinkers, along with a sober acknowledgment of the suffering of a people. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Imbibe it via box set and you can watch the thing expand in real time, from a drama about a mob boss in therapy to a genuinely poetic meditation on life and death. Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

During one of our conversations, he described the trees with so much love and admiration, it was downright poetic. The silver Christmas tree, an icon of Space Age kitsch, turns 60 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Yet this idea also underlies the novel’s poetic complexity. In This Genre-Bending Novel, You Better Believe the Monsters Are Real 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

But then we never hear a poem, and the Panthers were and are very poetic people, so I thought we missed an opportunity. Dominique Fishback Gave Her Heart to ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Paschkis is the illustrator of more than 25 children’s books, including “Pablo Neruda, Poet of the People,” and her poetic sensibility girds every page. Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

That production, Mr. Kremer said, is not political but “a very poetic exercise.” Gidon Kremer: A Violinist on a Mission, or Several of Them 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Perkins is a poetic sorceress whose authorial wand wafts over the pages of her book and gently probes the depths of children’s souls. What Should Your Kid Read This Summer? Here Are Three to Start With 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

With the campaign and other initiatives, Valentino is seeking to equate its designs with eloquence and poetic rigor. Kaia, Kendall and EmRata Are Taking a Page From Oprah 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

With such a poetic promise, it's small wonder that writers continue to surrender to the tantalizing ebb and flow of Key West. Key West: A Writer's Town 2011-04-14T14:50:16.727Z

There’s a certain poetic justice when Ms. Kirby’s favorite hat is caught by a gust of wind and sails away. Review: ‘My Teacher Is a Monster,’ by Peter Brown

Perhaps the freest of all is the walled-in narrator, whose disturbed fantasy life leads to a poetic sort of justice. Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Rovelli comments that Einstein was taking great poetic license with the temporal findings of his relativity theory, even to the point of error. Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

All of this is rendered in a style rich in idioms and poetic allusions, which have always been the greatest challenge to Murasaki’s translators. ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s a wonderful metaphor for what we believe in, which is individual threads of different colors all working together to create a picture,” said Victor Luis, the chief executive, waxing a little poetic. Coach Inc. Is Dead. Long Live Tapestry. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Then it becomes more of a poetic, personal experience with your lover and the nurses who are watching over you. Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Hardy, lost in his poetic and erotic reveries, cares more for the pines and beeches than he does for most people. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Using mostly found, slight materials, including fragments of furniture, supplemented by touches of white paint, Gomes improvises a touching poetic, economical art out of almost nothing. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s an astounding movie, shot through with poetic moments of tenderness that make the scenes of sexual violence all the more horrifying. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

These outstanding artists each told stories in poetic prose that was some of the best writing I read or heard all year, and brought back the reality that language is a living thing. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

The Jermyn's artistic director, Gene David Kirk, described the play as "very poetic and yet comic". Samuel Beckett radio play to receive first UK staging 2012-05-28T13:56:17Z

Embedded within that poetic instruction and the other meditations was a substantial proposition: a total inclusivity, meant to free music from elite specialists and open it up to everyone, regardless of status, experience, or ability. Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Minute observations recalling his early days as a military draftsman are coupled with a deeply poetic sense of nature on a late summer afternoon. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z

The script is simply Stein’s libretto, unaltered — a chaotically opaque, willfully bizarre text that occasionally turns inquiring and poetic but is most often principally concerned with the sound of language and the human voice. ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ Review: An Opera Becomes a One-Man Show 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

We don't encourage enough films of distinctive, poetic, personal, classy, thoughtful voice. Trailer Trash 2013-04-20T23:05:44Z

Abbas Kiarostami, often hailed as Iran’s greatest filmmaker, whose searching, parablelike dramas of ordinary people and their problems reflected a poetic vision and a philosophical turn of mind, died on Monday in Paris. Abbas Kiarostami, Acclaimed Iranian Filmmaker, Dies at 76 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

On the artists "Articulated as doublespeak, they hand-make the virtual, cite history in fugue fervour, and find the poetic and enduring in the cacophony of pop cultural din." Charles Saatchi's catalogue of disasters 2010-06-08T19:00:00Z

Like a number of other creations by Mr. Ratmansky, it expands the landscape of the art: Its depiction of a wide range of humanity in civilized debate is vividly poetic. An Exquisite Ratmansky and More From American Ballet Theater 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

In effect, Davis and associates had conceived a poetic response to the previous decade's volcanic music of Charlie "Bird" Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Miles Davis' 'Birth of the Cool' heats up again 2011-03-07T15:00:00Z

The former poet laureate and author, most recently, of “Monument” came to poetic language via Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Before I ever committed any poems to memory I had memorized his speech.” Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Young or old, entrepreneur or family-only producer, all are passionate and poetic about their beloved beverage. Review: In ‘Our Blood Is Wine,’ Raising Glasses to Tradition in an Ex-Soviet State 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

At its most poetic moments, “Credo in Us” evokes the layered, splintered feel of Sappho verse fragments whirring through time and space. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z

Usually the circumstances inspiring that term's invocation are poetic and positive. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Some of the talk is poetic; some of it is just chatter. In ‘Everybody Knows,’ a dance troupe struggles with a long-distance relationship

The start of the Waltz of the Flowers is both poetic and funny. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ in Philadelphia and by Manhattan Youth Ballet 2012-12-17T22:54:57Z

Each of the three movements employs an ensemble in a quite different set of stage geometries; the first two thread angelic paths through pedestrian activities in ways that are poetic and, as sheer construction, enthralling. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z

Around the hits, their albums — notably “Odessa” — floated larger musical and poetic concepts and more eccentric productions. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

But Gaddis is a virtuoso and a once-in-an-era talent - his prose is at once precise and poetic, and his dialogue is pitch-perfect. The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z

We wanted to show the vision and poetic beauty of these songs, but also how music can act as an agent for social and political change, and Woody is the poster boy for that.” ‘Your Land,’ and Woody Guthrie’s, Preserved 2012-07-11T14:15:14Z

On a more frustrating level, the structure is confusing, particularly in the beginning, and narrative propulsion is muddled by the scope and poetic repetition. The Season’s Standout Crossover Y.A. Novels 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

While Federico Fellini continues to explore the fanciful world of his own making, and the Tavianis mine a rich vein of poetic folklore, this director is Italy’s most acute social chronicler,” Mr. Harvey continued. Ettore Scola, Italian Film Director of Satire and Farce, Dies at 84 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

A CD in a plastic jewel box is not intrinsically more poetic than a vinyl LP in a cardboard sleeve. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

When he speaks, Mr. Saraceno alternates between the poetic and technical. With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Above all, this beautifully photographed documentary is a poetic meditation on refined sensory perception. Movie Review: ‘Planet of Snail,’ a South Korean Documentary 2012-07-24T22:08:39Z

It’s poetic and poignant and sets out to present an adult’s view of a child’s world, lightly swathed in nostalgia. Washington National Opera’s tuneful ‘Little Prince’ pleases kids — or does it? 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Except for a few tangled moments in the daunting second-movement march, he played a poetic and surging performance. Music Review: Pianist at Last Has Carnegie All to Himself 2011-01-23T22:42:27Z

A new show drawn entirely from OCMA’s permanent collection focuses on works by 16 women whose art in the 1990s underwent a transformation, from overtly political to something more poetic and personal. Datebook: The art of historic graphs, women of the '90s and a Coachella painter goes solo 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Lynes made many intensely poetic studio images of dancers and choreography. Review: ‘Transmissions’ Evokes a Climate (Poetic, With a Chance of Ballet) 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Those poetic torches first flared in the 1960s, glowed brightest in the ’70s, and began to fade in the ’80s, but there is invaluable prose almost to the end of Rich’s writing life. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Anikushin played with assurance and flair throughout, illuminating the dramatic rhythms and cinematic sweep of the first movement and imbuing the soulful third movement with a poetic spirit. Music Review: The Pianist Maxim Anikushin at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-09T20:31:22Z

Prouvost is slyly poetic, and much more sophisticated than she at first appears. Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore 2013-04-25T12:52:06Z

Strauss gives his swashbuckling Don Juan a poetic, even philosophical, demise, but with Nézet-Séguin, he just sort of dropped dead. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

And the camera mirrors their mood swings: When they are high, the lovers are lighted in a golden glow as dazzling and poetic as a glossy magazine ad. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

He is referring to the censors, and explains that he is withholding certain “poetic references” and “caustic comment.” Review | What Kurt Vonnegut’s rapturous love letters reveal about him as a writer — and husband 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The result is a dizzying mixture of poetic wit and furious hyperbole. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z

As such, they encourage a more poetic interpretation of vanishing “from the white gaze.” Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

The question manifested itself on the catwalk though poetic black and white pieces that experimented with volume. Special Report: Fashion: Volume and Layers 2010-09-29T17:44:00Z

“Sources describe dailies filled with Arnold’s trademark restless camera searching for grace notes—those gestures, movements, and poetic frames of natural light that added another layer to what is not being said,” according to IndieWire. The Disappointing, Emmy-Baiting Finale of “Big Little Lies” Season 2 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Only a kind of ambiguous poetic justice appears to be visited on those responsible. Biutiful ? review 2011-01-27T15:00:01Z

Such poetic license might be more forgivable for the sake of clever cadence, but this is a song that tries to rhyme “Brexit’‘ with “Taylor Swift.” Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Deeply poetic with its immense hemisphere ensconced in a pediment large enough to accommodate thousands, Boullée’s visionary project, remarkably enough, influenced other architects. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z

Power's viola tone is breathtakingly beautiful, rich and poetic, but such is his insight that the music, rather than his technique, is what commands attention. Power/Crawford-Phillips – review 2013-02-27T17:50:19Z

A poetic comet streaked across American skies in the winter of 1950. A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

These efforts fail — dully or hilariously — because once Fitzgerald’s poetic language has been stripped away, “The Great Gatsby” is just a silly story about a misfit obsessed with a gangster who’s stalking his cousin. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

And the more brutal we would make their deaths — and with their own weapons — in my mind, that's barbaric but poetic that they get killed by their own weapons. Game of Thrones' Actor: You’ll See a ‘Very Different’ Euron Later in the Season 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

This was poetic drama of a profound order. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z

Dislodging elegy from its poetic traditions and long history of men memorializing other men, Woolf set out to explore its terms within a more expansive, narrative form. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

He’s the slacker nature host: Turning the camera on the horizon, he says: “There’s a sunset. You think of something poetic.” When TV Goes Right Past Meditative to Vegetative 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

The practical and the poetic, yin and yang. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

She was also very poetic and had memorized long passages of Shakespeare, the King James Bible, poetry and even the language of the Constitution and Declaration. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z

Instead, through suggestive deployment of ordinary found objects, he replaced a story's expressive pictorial representation with a poetic, abstract evocation of it. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Sometimes a poetic version of the truth can be a little more powerful.” Christian Music’s Moment: How TobyMac and Lecrae Conquered the Countdown 2012-09-17T14:00:32Z

But these ruins are far less poetic for the people who inhabit them. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bell also offered a poetic rendition of the famous “Méditation” from Massenet’s “Thaïs.” Music Review: A New Leader Brings Along Some Old Favorites 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

Still, the picture's visual imagery--the cinematographer is Andrew Droz Palermo--is so restlessly poetic that it's hard to turn away. A Ghost Story Chills-and Makes You Wonder 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s sort of poetic that things began here.” At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

“You want something to work, generally. But it is way more poetic when it works sometimes and then doesn’t work. I’m trying to find a third thing between working and not working.” Don’t Call It a Magazine 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

“And when I read all those beautiful and poetic texts, presumptuous and yet prophetic, I imagined her incorporating all these ideas.” Cate Blanchett Morphs a Dozen Times in ‘Manifesto’ 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Hers is a small but diversified operation that gets ingredients like herbs and produce from nearby farms and food companies and turns them into limited runs of 30 to 500 bottles, often with poetic names. A Jewel of a Distillery With Storied Roots 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

But I find that rider powerful, a suggestion perhaps that the painter’s concerns had turned away from the niceties of representation to more philosophical, historic and poetic questions. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Jasmine Swope adds a distinctive poetic twist to this well traveled territory. Jasmine Swope's photographs make familiar sights seem almost alien 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people,” Flannery O’Connor wrote with merciless accuracy, “those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.” Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Eno seems to be striving for a contemporary co-mingling of despair and wonder, and a revelation of the underlying interconnections between people and place that coalesced in the poetic sphere of “Our Town.” ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z

But for all its considerable pleasures and the fact that Hickson finds a voice less slick and more layered and poetic than in previous shows, this feels like two different plays super-glued together. Hot Mess 2010-08-13T13:11:00Z

The designer showed an exceptional collection: sporty, imaginative, poetic. Fashion Review: At Undercover, a Royal Collection 2014-02-27T19:33:20Z

“The places we walk through are an excavation of memory — forbidden remembrances of a lost world,” muses the unseen occasional narrator of Pietro Marcello’s impressionistic, extravagantly poetic documentary “The Mouth of the Wolf.” | 'The Mouth of the Wolf': A Study of Time, Love and Decay in Genoa 2011-08-03T22:03:03Z

He wrote not only with balance and complexity but also in poetic code — a necessary skill for a political survivor who lived in times that make ours seem tame by comparison. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The “Sweet Land” librettos are placeless and poetic; the music is reminiscent of known styles, but heard as if through a prism; the colorful costumes are works of arresting fantasy. An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Some journeys are more major than others, but they all conjure a poetic sense of transformation. Review: A Sophisticated Journey Continues 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Nader speaks of tort law and contracts in language equal parts poetic and patriotic, his love for the discipline undiminished since his first Harvard Law School class, “a total thrill.” Ralph Nader builds his dream museum. Of tort law. 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

But because it's a reality show rather than a one-on-one confessional documentary, we see a different side of Tyson -- less intense and poetic, more ordinary-seeming. What Charlie Sheen can learn from Mike Tyson 2011-03-03T15:40:00Z

The bombing, though it changes her life, is simply one part  of that, told in the same poetic, observational style with which she recounts more ordinary aspects of city life. Radio review: Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You 2011-07-06T19:29:01Z

The common threads are Martsch's distant, boyish voice — its inherent bittersweetness, singing of things personal and pointed or vaguely grand and poetic — and his guitar. Built to Spill stays true to its indie roots 2010-11-19T02:01:00Z

But his loquacious discussion of the mind-sets of Southern roosters is particularly choice — funny and hugely quirky, but also poetic and pensive. ‘Seven Guitars’ by the No Rules Theatre Co. hits all the right notes

Another photographer, Erica Baum, is showing her poetic series on dog-eared book pages at the tiny Bureau, one of a few galleries remaining below Canal Street. Art Review: Rising and Regrouping on Lower East Side 2011-04-22T03:31:42Z

Rendered by later artists in ways more self-consciously surreal—or, sometimes, deliberately “poetic,” not to say pathetic—the scenes from Alice become less uncanny. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Her themes, as she matured, became more philosophical, even religious, or they dwelled on the nature of poetic language. Bella Akhmadulina, Bold Voice in Russian Poetry, Dies at 73 2010-12-01T05:58:00Z

The whole cast sings an adagio Vacationers’ Chorus — “You should not leave your children unobserved!” — that’s reset, at the tail of the opera’s hourlong cycle, with Grainyte’s most poetic invocation of habitat change. Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Similarly, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” is a poetic dramatization of India’s injustice against its minorities, dedicated to “the unconsoled.” Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Addiction is one of the topics she tackles in “Godspeed,” her raw and poetic memoir that was published last month. A Female Olympian Who Models Men’s Clothing 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Accompanied by Christie’s expressive paintings, Weatherford’s poetic text depicts the liberation and the community that Congo Square Sundays provided each week after six days of hard labor. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

And in the novel’s surprisingly poetic ending, Romy finally experiences a kind of insight beyond her capacity to articulate. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

All I wanted was to pass along the spirit of the girl from Ipanema, that poetic Rio thing. ‘Girl from Ipanema:’ Re-imagining a classic for today’s Rio 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s the director’s poetic licence, but that is not how I reacted.” ‘My life was torn in two when Gianni was shot’ – Versace’s lover breaks silence 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

The stakes in the 1898 version were primarily poetic and stylistic. Review: A Skilled Ballet Leader Creates a Messy ‘Raymonda’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Presented here as emerging from the mélodie tradition rather than, as usual, opera, Poulenc’s work, with a text by Jean Cocteau, felt more poetic and even surreal than a naturalistic narrative. Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Charms With French Art Songs 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

If there is a reference point, perhaps it's Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America; a similarly poetic, visionary and unclassifiable meditation on the natural world. Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z

But composers who channel their inner E. E. Cummings and break with traditional capitalization say they do so advisedly — for reasons musical, poetic, political and idiosyncratic. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The idea of the poetic centre was beginning to disintegrate, but it was more intact than it is now. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z

But he seemed intent on highlighting the music’s reflective passages and poetic flights, especially in his dreamy account of the slow movement. Review: The Philharmonic Reveals the Rhetoric of Rachmaninoff 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Roberts, by contrast, is quietly moody and occasionally poetic. Dance: Sinatra, Focused on Sex and Sizzle 2010-03-26T23:19:00Z

What’s clear here is a particularly sordid kind of poetic justice. Perspective | Trump once wanted the National Enquirer to win a Pulitzer. Now it may prove his downfall. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

But Crawford is a poet as well as a professor of English at St Andrews, and his poetic intuitions lead to historical speculations that are mainly credible and persuasive. The Beginning and the End of the World: St Andrews, Scandal and the Birth of Photography by Robert Crawford ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z

Soloist Frank Braley, highly regarded in his native France and looking like a musketeer, was most poetic in the Adagio assai yet, overall, lacked the thrust to carry the work off with total conviction. BSO/Kyrill Karabits 2010-10-11T21:01:00Z

Wright, who died suddenly in January of a blood clot at 67, was also one of the major poetic innovators of the last quarter century. In 'Shallcross,' C.D. Wright was at the height of her powers 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The poetic rewrite, by the Austrian Lydia Haider, mixing heightened and vulgar speech, is a confusing way into the piece. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kalish spoke briefly about Ives’s eclectic life, including his work as an insurance executive, before offering a poetic rendition of “The Alcotts” from Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass.” Review: Dawn Upshaw Gets Down to Earth at Town Hall 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z