Word: poeticisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Swedish Academy, the committee that selects the Nobel Prize winners, cited Soyinka in 1986 as someone “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence...
...However poetic it may have been, Luna was never a band about perfect climaxes, nor were they deaf to the crowd’s calls on Friday and so they returned for a second encore, this time playing “23 Minutes in Brussels...
...AOTC is also notable for its poetic language—especially near the middle of the film when Lucas exposes the curious dialectics of rough/coarse and soft/smooth. Framed within the grand love story of the film, young Anakin Skywalker compares Natalie Portman’s skin to the harsh sand of his home planet Tattooine. Lucas puts the ball in the audience’s court as he asks: What is the nature of smoothness? Roughness...
...movie adaptations go, in my Father's Den wears its literary heart on its sleeve. Based on Maurice Gee's 1972 novel of the same name, the film begins with the poetic voice-over of a teenage girl, later seen lying, as if in a coffin, along a railway track: "One day in a town at the end of the world, the tide went out and never returned." But as we get to know the soon-to-disappear Celia (Emily Barclay), whose relationship with a returned war photographer (Matthew Macfadyen) the movie charts, the film's biggest surprise...
Despite Fox25’s harrowing footage of two women fighting, the random destruction of a Sovereign Bank sign in Kendall Square, and a man fleeing, resisting arrest, there is some objectively poetic beauty in such a win. There is something that you yourself acknowledge in the sheer improbability of the Red Sox beating the Yankees. There is something about sports enthusiasm coming to Harvard, albeit in the worst...