as in poetic
having qualities suggestive of poetry
"Now the trumpet summons us again" is one of the many bardic phrases in President Kennedy's inaugural address
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Adjective
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Wales Bonner’s Spring 2026 menswear show felt like a slow walk on familiar ground, calm, poetic, and deeply personal.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
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Seen together, the works move between poetic and unsettling, offering a striking reflection on our entanglement with the natural world.—
Nel-Olivia Waga,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Through the map, like the ship, Pace argues, time, space, and place are linked to cultural, personal, poetical, and political memory.—
Abby Clayton,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Apr. 2025
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In addition, for this film, drinking heart blood had physical, poetical appeal.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Soth, who is based in Minneapolis, is best known for his large-format photography that blends documentary realism with lyrical storytelling.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
1 July 2025
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Joel Alfonso Vargas brings raw authenticity and lyrical vision to a coming-of-age story that pulses with life and urgency.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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Apple also doubled down on games, added new features, including lyric translation to Apple Music, and introduced new options for its Vision Pro headset, among other things.—
Michele Luhn,
CNBC,
10 June 2025
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“Bardic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bardic. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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