Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rozema's enchanting directorial technique converts the somewhat cliched plot into a poetic and candid account of desire. The movie's subject matter is challenging, but the visual beauty which Rozema creates, along with the physical beauty of her actors, make Camille and her world seem attractive to any audience...
Within his plays, Williams' pursuit of the poetic extends beyond the dialogue. Is there another American playwright whose stage directions are so revealing, so entertaining, so rich? Suddenly Last Summer calls for a garden that is "more like a tropical jungle, or forest, in the prehistoric age of giant fern-forests when living creatures had flippers turning to limbs and scales to skin." The Glass Menagerie asks for light "such as El Greco's, where the figures are radiant in atmosphere that is relatively dusky." If demands like these normally would appear affected or ostentatious, Williams makes them look like...
...such a poetic problem and such a poetic molecule that it inspired me," Davis said...
...also accomplishes what has become increasingly difficult in an age of obscure poetry: In a spare, often stacatto language, Atwood themes. It also accomplishes what has become increasingly difficult in an age of obscure poetry: In a spare, often stacatto language. Atwood resurrects the simple beauty of the poetic form...
Later, in the same finely tuned and almost poetic form of free association, Morrow describes his postoperative period of convalescence at his farm in Dutchess County, New York; a reporting junket to the West Indies with his teenage son; and a cross-country automobile trip with his wife to celebrate the first anniversary of his successful surgery. Several times during his narration, Morrow writes of being invisible--of being, in various contexts, an unseen observer. Everywhere, turbulent memories surface and are recorded with the faithfulness of a man whose search for answers will not be denied. In the end, however...