| 单词 | poetic license |
| 例句 | “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 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 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 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 In describing his view in “Out the Window,” Hall applied a sort of poetic license. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 She follows these themes into the hinterlands, around the world and into literature and also takes poetic license while ranging effectively between masterpieces and relatively generic examples of visual culture. Art Review: ‘Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions,’ at South Street Seaport 2012-08-02T23:17:05Z The director/adapter seizes on this fuzziness for some intriguing poetic license. Salome, We Hardly Knew Ye 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z 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 Lemmons said that by now, “I know a whole lot about the story, so when I conflated, embellished, created or used poetic license, I certainly knew exactly what I was doing.” Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Suddenly, what was originally just an ethereal touch of poetic license becomes an extended flight of surrealism. Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z He has no problem feeding lines to his interview subjects, for instance, as he did in “Little Dieter Needs to Fly,” because his poetic license achieves more truth than accuracy. There are two Washingtons, and this week you can see both of them on screen 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z 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 It’s poetic license that’s been carefully applied for, and we accept it. Review: ‘Hot Summer Nights’ Is Trite, Sexist Opportunism 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z After all the poetic license and wordplay, the language you pile up, derby’s biggest lesson is the confrontation with your own inner silence. Broken collarbone? Just roll with it 2013-06-02T17:00:00Z What abides is a giddy awareness of history as a tale told by unreliable narrators, as well as the oddly comforting impression that senescence has its own poetic license. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z 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 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 All of which frees this show to take poetic license — to tell its version of the truth, but to tell it weirdly, delightfully slant. ‘Dickinson’ Is an Offbeat Literary Origin Story, Written in Fire 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z When Reuben Koroma sings about living like a refugee, he's not taking poetic license. The Short List | 'Friday Night Lights,' Refugee All Stars, 'The Little Stranger' 2010-05-12T23:53:00Z But once several comic exchanges bring her poetic license to light, his thrill turns to rage. ‘Book of Love’ Review: Lust (Eventually) in Translation 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z 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 The production, directed by Neel Keller, carefully splits the difference between documentary objectivity and poetic license. Review: The Ghosts of Michael Brown, in ‘Until the Flood’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 There are questions of poetic license, but they do not take away from this engaging and fascinating story of race and sexual exploitation in the Deep South. ‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes’: Zora Neale Hurston, in Her Own Words 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z With a fair amount of speculation and poetic license, that film explicated the medium of modern friendship. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z I had never written an album with so many songs in the third person, character or narrative driven, but there is still so much of me in this, even with poetic license. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z Liotta was hopeless as a left-handed hitter, so the filmmakers allowed him some poetic license in the batting scene. Sideline Chatter: Shoeless Joe never had children either, so stop nitpicking 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z And it’s very recent history, so it’s well documented and part of the collective consciousness, meaning there’s not a lot of wiggle room” to take poetic license, she added. How 'Under the Banner of Heaven' got Mormon history right. Down to the 'bullet holes' 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z “It’s obviously a comedy. They took a lot of poetic license. They stretched some truth or made up some to make it funny.” The original Jamaican bobsled team inspired a movie — and a new generation 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Whether accurate or poetic license, “Chuck E.'s in Love” was Jones’ breakthrough and cemented Weiss’ legend in the American pop imagination. Chuck E. Weiss, musician and raconteur of 'Chuck E.'s in Love' fame, dies at 76 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z We use our poetic license like we all do when we’re writing a historical character. The COVID conundrum: Storytellers contend with pandemic on set, at home, in their work 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z At least that’s the theory, though as best as I understand it, Dominican cooks have always accepted a certain amount of poetic license when discussing the dish’s symbolism. Review | Mecho’s is a fast-casual with the generosity of a Dominican mom 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Opening the door to political tests for qualification for candidacy would, contrary to Padilla’s poetic license, fundamentally threaten and suppress the democratic process. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “The president often speaks with poetic license to make his point,” Mr. Pillsbury said. Trump Says He Will Raise Existing Tariffs on Chinese Goods to 30% 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z That implication may or may not be a bit of poetic license. ‘Tolkien’ review: Biopic of young J.R.R. focuses on fellowship 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “Outlaw country music is given much more poetic license than gangster rap, and I listen to both,” he said. Hip-Hop Artists Give the Supreme Court a Primer on Rap Music 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “I took poetic license,” he tells me, laughing. The gun-toting Republicans who care about climate change as much as you do 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z A debate has cropped up about whether “The Lifespan of a Fact,” under the direction of Leigh Silverman at Studio 54, credibly explores the journalistic conflict between factual accuracy and poetic license in long-form reporting. Critic's Notebook: Star turns that serve the Broadway play — Elaine May, Daniel Radcliffe and Janet McTeer show how it's done 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But the war on cancer is not the place for pep talks and poetic license. In the War on Cancer, Truth Becomes a Casualty 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “You take poetic license in what you do,” she said. Janice Dickinson at Cosby Trial: ‘Here Was America’s Dad on Top of Me’ 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z One might be inclined to dismiss Trump’s relatively harmless tale as poetic license in the tradition of story-telling. Opinion | Trump’s believe it or not 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Losos takes some poetic license in suggesting that we now know evolution may operate “at light speed,” but from a perspective of eons of geological time, he’s not far wrong. Does evolution bring the same results no matter what? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z But things soured after the arrest, and more so after the memoir, which Father Moloney recently called a boastful display of “selective memory and poetic license” about the crime. A $7.4 Million Heist Made for Hollywood 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Rather than argue about whether to revoke the candidates' poetic licenses, let's survey the real economic constraints that the next president will face and why the economy's growth prospects, like Obama's forecast, are more prosaic. Election Year Economic Poetry 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In truth, Cage's stories assumed considerable poetic license. Bill T. Jones tests the limits of his own comfort zone in 'Story/Time' 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Fisher famously wrote that oysters lead “a dreadful but exciting life,” full of “stress, passion, and danger,” she was taking poetic license. Shell Game: There Is No Such Thing as California "Native" Oysters [Excerpt] 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But in the AP interview he suggests this was more of the filmmakers' poetic license. Stanislav Petrov Says He Didn't Think About World War III 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But in the AP interview he suggests this was more of the filmmakers’ poetic license. Russian who ‘saved the world’ recalls his decision as 50/50 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Our defense is poetic license, as well as transgender rights. Ceci N’est Pas une Pape 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z To the extent that the authors took poetic license, it was to tone down the meet-cute improbability of the true-life events. Ashley and JaQuavis Coleman: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z That would be an exaggeration, of course, but one well within the bounds of poetic license. Tiger Woods Deserves to Take His Shot at the Masters 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z So Frey exercised poetic license, and the result would later be voted one of the 500 most influential songs in rock history. It's the corner, and statue, that made Winslow, Arizona, famous 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Simun suspected that this might be poetic license inspired by the researcher’s fondness for her subject, but, at six in the morning in Montauk, she witnessed the bumblebee flashmob for herself. Agalinis Acuta, Phantom Flower 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The disparity helps to lighten what might otherwise have been a wonky show, letting in a healthy amount of poetic license in the interpretation of what constitutes “science.” Art review: ‘Gedankenexperiment’ at American Association for the Advancement of Science As we accept poetic license, let’s accept a humor license that grants permission to expand on realistic themes with soaring imagination and unabashed metaphors… How To Be Funny: The Six Essential Ingredients To Humor 2014-04-01T04:01:25Z But he doesn’t use poetic license to make extravagant predictions. Ten Expert Economists' Wild Guesses About the World of 2114 2014-03-11T16:51:41Z When I told my husband how well it over, he offered me a poetic license to use the same routine everywhere I spoke. Six Ways To Be An Amazing Public Speaker 2014-01-06T11:21:00Z "There are moments of poetic license to synthesize, to be inspired by his letters," said Mr. Schut. IHT Rendezvous: The Rope, the App and Van Gogh in Amsterdam 2012-12-28T16:10:03Z It is to the "poetic license" of Longfellow, that most persons owe their knowledge of the fact that such a person as Revere ever existed. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z The themes upon which they discoursed kindled the imagination and caused them to break forth into figures of speech and poetic license. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z Nor was I surprised to find myself there, because, as a romancer, I have a poetic license to go anywhere and see everything. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z In fixing the time, Isaiah indulges in a poetic license, and purposely rendered it obscure. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z And although in that latter phrase some may only see a poetic license, I am disposed to be content. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z She was herself rich in what has been styled with poetic license the fatal dower of beauty and was as clever as pretty. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z Plain, honest folk don't know about poetic license, and I have often heard the poet's conduct in the matter of Skipper Ireson's ride characterized with profane severity. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z These firm and vivid pieces of work are truly welcome as examples of poetic force that succeeds without the help of poetic license. A Night in Avignon 2011-07-07T02:00:27.090Z A little poetic license to create obscurity—a peculiarity of the Jewish prophets—does not at all render the meaning doubtful. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z “That is, if you will allow that poetic license—because ‘dear’ rhymes with ‘here.’ The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z It is to poetic license, he says, that we owe nearly all the beautiful figures with which poets, in their divine rapture, enfranchising the laws of grammar, have enriched their works. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z This statement, he thinks, was an example of the poetic license in which Wilde, like Shelley and other men of genius, was willing to indulge. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The noises we hear from the city, spread about on every hand, might be called by poetic license any kind of a roar. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z That's a great advantage poets have; anything that isn't quite good English can always be called poetic license. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z They no longer employ inversions of words and phrases, nor cultivate the stock poetical terms and words allowed formerly as a matter of poetic license. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Miss Lucilla hadn't confided this fact to Miss Emmeline, but there are some things one knows instinctively, and Amelia believes in poetic license as applied to drama. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z Why," says he, "that's a poetic license, or American geography diluted by the Atlantic. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z He is, and always will be, the first person to whom Wimbledon granted poetic license. To Volley or Not to Volley, That Is the Bard of Wimbledon?s Question 2010-06-30T14:38:00Z In a case of art imitating life -- with perhaps a little poetic license -- Oscar-winning movie "Avatar" paints big mining companies as the villains of the future. Movie "Avatar" has few fans among mining execs 2010-03-11T21:36:00Z Thus "pike" is no doubt an example of "poetic license," as pick, the word he really wants, would not rhyme with strike! Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources They further proved that most so-called bulls are no bulls at all, but often a poetic license, a heart-spoken effusion, and that thus the offense became a grace beyond the reach of art. Maria Edgeworth To rhyme the words "rose" and "unclosed" is to exceed the utmost limits of poetic license. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 “Smooth, but not quite correct, if examined closely—but I’ll let it pass as poetic license.” Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland The youthful appearance of the bridegroom as he rose to make his speech may probably be attributed to a poetic license, permissible, nay laudable, nay necessary on such an occasion. Marion Fay He wrote on, without any previous study of the style or manner in which the subject should be pursued––using the poetic license of light and shade as Fancy dictated. The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio By a poetic license, Barksted credits all these achievements to the son, none to the father. Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) Of course we shall expect to find in them the enlargement or exaggeration of poetic license. Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems This is clearly at direct issue with Ben Jonson, whose introduced phrases, "pleaded nonage," "wardship," "pupillage," &c., seem to smack too much of legal technology to countenance the supposition of poetic license. Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. To speak of the gloaming is a poetic license, it is true. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The disparity of their virtues and their crimes is overwrought in the use of poetic license. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 It was not a very manly thing to do, but Mr. Wordsley was exercising his poetic license. The Marooner Poetry uses great freedom, called poetic license, in the order of words and construction of sentences. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Those passages which attribute active employments to the dwellers in the under world are specimens of poetic license, as the context always shows. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The Blue Walk is something to remember, with its walls of blue lavender flanking the blue paving stones, between the cracks of which lovely bluebells and larkspur spring up in irrelevant, poetic license. Woman as Decoration Beethoven, though he remained faithful to it, felt its fetters, as is shown by his numerous poetic licenses. Chopin and Other Musical Essays "It's in all the papers!" retorted Charlotte, indulging in poetic license. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties “There is a green hill” is poetic license, but the hymn is sweet and sympathetic, and almost childlike in its simplicity. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes In “Garden Amusements” the conversation was interrupted by a note criticising a quotation from Milton as savoring too much of poetic license. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book The artist nature has always assumed poetic license in the matter of dress, and as a rule defied custom, to follow an inborn feeling for beauty. Woman as Decoration These lines imply an attitude unknown to contemporary waltzers, but the description involves no poetic license. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales I have taken very little 'poetic license' with their traditions; none, whatever, with their customs and superstitions. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems With regard to the first, the Latin element, which is so manifest in his prose works, largely predominates in his poems, but accords better with the poetic license. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction It is only by something akin to poetic license that we can speak of lower and higher strata of mind. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy Indeed, he once described the predicament as distinctly fahscinating, but this example of poetic license was too much even for Thomas, and he withdrew his remark in the most parliamentary manner. A Dream of the North Sea N.B.—"Action" in these verses is poetic license for "summons." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 Lloyd, with some poetic license, compares this frontier to two impregnable bastions whose curtain is formed of three fine forts and whose ditch is one of the most rapid of rivers. The Art of War One might suppose they danced in sabots—mere poetic license, and besides, a first tenor ought to have very good ears.... In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences The ends of the earth are poetic license; the earth and all its ends can be reduced to the flat of the man she loves. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories My impression is that Judge Cooley has simply made use of a poetic license which any fair-minded person should be willing to concede the votaries of the muse. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 The accent of this word is on the antepenult; by poetic license, in four of the passages above quoted, it is placed on the penult. A Collection of College Words and Customs And in spite of the exaggeration and extravagance which shield themselves under the claim of poetic license, I venture to affirm that "In vino veritas" is not truer than In carmine veritas. Ralph Waldo Emerson You see I have indulged in poetic license; for instance, the first tenor says he hears the folks doing the light fantastic toe. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Noise, unearthly noise, was the poetic license allowed the occupants of these cells. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Some of the earlier translators, notably Rückert, permitted themselves unwarranted poetic licenses, modernizing and sentimentalizing the text, somewhat as Professor Ebers did the thoughts and feelings of the ancient Egyptians. Primitive Love and Love-Stories But so long as these erroneous views are entertained little has been done—for it is not enough barely to tolerate as a poetic license that which is, in truth, the essence of all poetry. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes This is a sort of poetic license, as is suggested in the 16th Observation upon the Cases of Nouns, in the Etymology. The Grammar of English Grammars With him every thing is projecting, starting from its place, an episode, a digression, a poetic license. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits I have taken very little "poetic license" with their traditions; none, whatever, with their customs and superstitions. Legends of the Northwest Either we have here a piece of poetical exaggeration far beyond the limits of poetic license, or 'a greater than Solomon is here.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The Jerusalem Delivered is the history of a Crusade, related with poetic license. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 The deduction for "poetic license" is just as readily, though it does not, of course, require to be as frequently, made with respect to the hyperbole of denunciation as with respect to that of praise. English Men of Letters: Coleridge In his Essays, he sometimes avails himself of the poetic license to be obscure and contradictory and to present philosophy that will not walk on all fours. History of American Literature I did my best to soothe the wounded spirit of our guide by explaining the necessities of poetic license. Round the World Where the philosophy of the elder Omar was bacchanalian and epicurean, that of the Son was tobacchanalian and eclectic, allowing excess only in moderation, as it were, and countenancing nothing more violent than poetic license. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. The omission of to with ring and sing is here a poetic license; but in Elizabethan English it is common in many cases where it would not now be admissible. The Lady of the Lake This is a poetic license; many a plague found mediæval London abominably dirty! Adventures Among Books |
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