Word: poetically
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...journalists become wrapped up in the scandal, the more they lose sight of its real importance. Despite self-righteous talk about "truth" and "the people's right to know," concerns about agents, public relations, TV appearances and high society inclusion are what truly motivate the journalists. In the end, poetic justice prevails and the sharks in the media get a taste of their own privacy-invading medicine...
Bold presence that goes unnoticed--now there is something Liam Neeson knows a bit about. With a 6-ft. 4-in. frame and a face that is memorably poetic in its asymmetry, Neeson, 44, has always possessed movie-star aura. But it took Hollywood nearly a decade to figure out how to capture it. By the time Neeson landed the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's monumental Holocaust elegy, the Irish actor had already appeared in 23 mostly unheralded films. And yet, even though Schindler's List won Neeson the kind of praise and splashy recognition (including...
Grunwald continues: "The Gap...makes us blend into a crowd of casual, comfortable clothing." In a metaphor that is almost poetic, Grun-wald explains: With the pocket t-shirts and cotton turtlenecks grouped into small, medium, large and extra large, "the Gap fits everybody. It provides the sartorial equivalent of the Big Tent, welcoming America's diverse multitude of grossly misshapen bodies into the comforting embrace of its loose fitting" sweaters...
...satellite captures a powerful, poetic portrait of Hurricane Fran It's one of nature's dark ironies that the most horrific expressions of its power are also the most beautiful. Think Mount St. Helens or a Pacific tsunami. Add to these Hurricane Fran, pinwheeling toward the U.S. last Wednesday...
...right brain spins the story this way: it is poetic justice. A highly paid political prostitute, Dick Morris, comes to grief in the arms of an expensive hooker in Washington--a perfect moral fit. The case almost accidentally opens a door upon a disturbing side of American politics--not Dick Morris' character (who cares?) so much as the larger drama of American political manipulation in 1996, and a general atmosphere of sleaze that even the canned floral scents of "family values" cannot perfume...