Word: poetic
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...extended tracks and three that weren’t on the original album, but most importantly, it captures one of Reed’s sharpest live performances ever (he’s notorious for his spotty live shows). Backed by a large musical ensemble, Reed delivers his poetic lines with an enthusiasm equal to the task. And while his voice shows signs of weather from years of abuse, it doesn’t hurt the songs a bit. The recording quality is pitch perfect throughout, and many of the album’s most poignant moments have benefited from...
It’s time to dust off the cover of “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran. This slim volume of poetic essays is most likely to be found on your parents’ bookshelf—if they were hippies—or in a New Age second-hand bookshop redolent of old incense. Although the bookflap boasts that Gibran is the “3rd bestselling poet” in the world (after William Shakespeare and Lao Tse), his works, including his masterpiece “The Prophet,” have largely sunk...
...could just wax poetic all day,” she gushes, her expressive hands grabbing at the air with excitement. “But I’ll stop now,” she laughs, pausing to catch her breath before launching into another five-minute spiel about the corporal language of dance and what she believes to be its impact on the Cambridge locals...
...Although this does not equal a perfect packet, the committee had hoped to use race as a “lens” for addressing these other issues. Unfortunately, it is glaringly obvious that Waite missed this point. He writes, “the freshmen were exposed to a poetic call for revolution and thereby were informed of the existence of a ‘war between races.’” The poem he references actually ends with the author—Lorna Dee Cervantes—concluding, “I do not believe...
...could wax poetic for a while on the inane antics of Rays’ fans to make up for their lacking in true love, but I won’t. I’m a fair-weather (aspiring to true) fan of Boston sports, and I’m a fair-weather fan of Harvard athletics. This seems paradoxical—a Crimson sports writer admitting that he doesn’t really care about sports...