Word: poeticizing
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...sincere guitar seems to be screaming, "Believe! Believe!" One line from "Power to Love" seems to summarize the sense of blissful stoned-ness coupled with agonized consciousness that characterized Hendrix' artistic quest. After some psychedelic nonsense about a jellyfish, Hendrix suddenly shines with one of his frequent moments of poetic lucidity...
Close indeed. The Bible's account of the event that rests at the heart of Christian faith, they concluded, is a poetic rendering of a devout wish but certainly not an authentic record. Crossan, who is co-chairman of the seminar with Funk, argues it this way: since the Crucifixion was conducted by Roman soldiers, he reckons, Jesus' body was most likely left on the Cross or tossed into a shallow grave to be eaten by scavenger dogs, crows or other wild beasts. As for Jesus' family and followers, depicted in the Bible as conducting a decent burial...
...imagination to a set of neurological functions. Creativity is not a word that comes easily to many physicians, but Sacks strongly believes that invention is a measure, if not a definition, of health. His own robust literary output flows from different sources. "It's the mixture of physiology with poetic and often tragic accounts of the subjective aspects of being ill, of neurological syndromes which fascinates the two halves of me," he says. "I might go to an Ibsen play one night and a physiology meeting the next." Now those two halves have come together. "It's the relation between...
Amidst the audible mental synapses turned to poetic utterance, you hear the hefty beat of music from upstairs, blocked out only occassionally by the rumble and shaking of a passing subway. It's a trip, but leave romaniticized visions of underground culture at home...
...talk about "appropriation" that went on through the '80s and into the '90s, Kitaj's name so seldom came up in New York: for this is a painter mad about quotation, about scouring the landfill of 20th century image-memory for fragments that could work as emblems and poetic signs...