Word: poeticisms
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...still incorporates the wide variety of sounds that her band has to offer. Although the music is memorable, the lyrics are the highlight of the song: “It’s a heartbreak even situation/ nothing lost and nothing gained.” DiFranco’s poetic skills are nicely showcased within her songs...
...this a case of poetic justice? Surprisingly, BC and its coach Al Skinner decided not to punish Harley or Bryant after the January incident "until all the facts were known." One must wonder whether that decision was based upon the merits of an innocent-until-proven-guilty philosophy or the importance of maintaining team chemistry on a then-undefeated basketball team. In any event, it was immensely ironic that Harley was kept on the team only to make the costliest error of the season...
...kind of poetic justice that when the first serious obstacle to Bush's tax cut emerged, it came from the year's first act of true bipartisanship. Five Senate Republicans and six Democrats--a potent bloc in the evenly divided Senate--announced they would support big tax cuts only if they include a "trigger" or "safety mechanism" that would prevent future rate reductions from kicking in if projected budget surpluses fail to materialize...
...Norton lectureship, established in 1925, honors Harvard's first professor of fine arts. The Norton Chair is concerned with "all poetic expression" in areas such as music, language, fine arts, architecture and literature...
...skill and verve in portraying flamboyantly wicked people behaving according to "a morality devoid of ethics or civil law." Like Evelyn Waugh, she employs her characters' untroubled consciences as an implicit sign of their irredeemable awfulness. And this engaging game of rat and louse concludes with a bit of poetic justice that is ghastly and richly appropriate. --By Paul Gray