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your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing
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Advertisement Something sparked between Mortensen, with his improvisational and decidedly non-pop inclinations and poetic musings, and Buckethead, with his virtuosic shredding and duffel bag full of Japanese toys.
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Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
However, the partnership brings a second media partner into the sport’s premier event and raises the prospect of a studio show comparable to ‘Inside the NBA,’ with Charles Barkley waxing poetic on fourth-down decisions and targeting penalties.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
In recent months, he’s been waxing poetic a lot — particularly on crypto-friendly podcasts; Katta is evidently a big Bitcoin fan — about the problems with modern devices.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 23 May 2024
Aparicio’s poetic sculptural forms look back half a century to the Post-Minimal art of the 1970s — especially process art, in which predetermined and accidental methods of their making replace personal decisions as the chief driver in creating the form.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
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Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
However, the partnership brings a second media partner into the sport’s premier event and raises the prospect of a studio show comparable to ‘Inside the NBA,’ with Charles Barkley waxing poetic on fourth-down decisions and targeting penalties.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
In recent months, he’s been waxing poetic a lot — particularly on crypto-friendly podcasts; Katta is evidently a big Bitcoin fan — about the problems with modern devices.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 23 May 2024
Aparicio’s poetic sculptural forms look back half a century to the Post-Minimal art of the 1970s — especially process art, in which predetermined and accidental methods of their making replace personal decisions as the chief driver in creating the form.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
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“Poetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetic. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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poetic
adjective
po·et·ic
pō-ˈet-ik 
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of poets or poetry
poetic words
2
: written in verse
poetical
adjective
-i-kəl
poetically
adverb
-k(ə-)lē
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