Word: poeticize
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...wonder is that Nelly Sachs could summon up a poetic vision that resolutely exorcised bitterness...
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. The faces, facades and streetscapes of Dublin, hauntingly captured in poetic pictures and luminous prose...
...Apropos of "Arabia Decepta: A People Self-Deluded" [July 14] is the poetic prose of T. E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom...
Searing Conviction. "Soul" combines searing emotional conviction, a surging rhythmic pulse, and earthy-poetic lyrics in updated variations on the Negro blues tradition. Long a staple of the "rhythm and blues" packaged for a chiefly Negro market, soul has increasingly influenced the work of white performers - notably rock 'n' rollers, many of whom frankly imitate Negro originals. Now, after the success of such Negro singers as Lou Rawls and Dionne Warwick, the authentic soul sound has come into its own in the white, teen-dominated pop market. "It satisfies a thirst for the idiomatic, the untrammeled, the pure...
...author's gentle and poetic little 1962 novel The Lilies of the Field went almost unnoticed as a book, but made it fairly big as a motion picture. Actor Sidney Poitier won an Oscar portraying Homer Smith, the book's footloose handyman hero, who used ingenuity, faith and adobe bricks to build a Catholic chapel for a penniless order of German-speaking nuns. In this sequel, Homer works another miracle when, pressed into service as an evangelist at an old-fashioned hallelujah tent meeting, he inspires a crippled girl to walk. Although his tale is almost too short...