Word: poetic
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...Tatar says, “but since I was engaging with the stories at a kind of micro-level, the only responsible way I saw to do that was by [translating them myself.]” She wanted “to get the language as precise and poetic as possible...
...shark hunter Boner McPharlin, goes from being the sheepskin-coated kid glimpsed in Long, Clear View to the silent driving partner of the narrator of Boner McPharlin's Moll, who, decades later, returns from overseas to nurse him in a psychiatric hospital. At its best, the device creates a poetic sense of ribboning destiny. "Perhaps time moves through us," concludes the narrator of Aquifer, "and not us through...
Newmark, a paunchy 51-year-old programmer with a fondness for science fiction, started Craigslist in 1995 as an informal list of Bay Area social events. He waxes poetic about Craigslist's unusual business mission to create a commons that the company maintains rather than a product that it sells. Buckmaster, an intense, analytical Spock to Newmark's Captain Kirk, is the implementer of that vision. He and Newmark use the word customer to describe Craigslist's users, but no one has ever paid a dime to use the site. Craigslist's only revenue, projected to be as much...
...19th century critic talking about a naked lady. At least that critic was aspiring to a discussion of meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience of it. Of course I’m not really planning to retreat into nostalgia for the unproblematic meaning of the past, but I don’t intend to spend my future passing judgments on what’s cool and what?...
Dylan, who turned 63 in May, rose to prominence in the early 1960s for his poetic protest songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin,” and distinctive nasal voice and folk guitar strumming...