Word: poeticizing
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...LYNDON. One of Stanley Kubrick's most audacious excursions, about a rake's progress and comeuppance. The movie is stunningly beautiful and bleakly-sometimes madly-funny. Though the pace is deliberately slow and careful, Barry Lyndon is finally an exciting film because Kubrick's gift for poetic irony charges every scene...
Perkins teaches English 161, "The Modern Period," with Robert J. Kiely, English 164, "The Development of Modern Poetry 1890-1939," and a proseminar, English 198a, "Poetic Style." All his courses are open to undergraduates...
...fact that there is no poetic justice in the world of traveling violations and three-point plays shouldn't serve to distract from Harvard's efforts last Saturday. The fact that they outplayed their highly rated cross-town rivals but emerged with nothing concrete to show for it should not be soon forgotten, for the cagers proved that they have the talent to keep pace with, and defeat the majority of, their future opponents...
Helprin uses a poetic style to capture the tone of the narrative ballad or the epic poem. This gives his plots and characters a remote quality: they are seen through a haze of words. The richness of his language can be a source of delight, and in some of his stories, like "A Jew of Persia," it is effective in creating an atmosphere...
...Have Lived in Arcadia," which Lang calls a pastoral, contains a bizarre mixture of kitsch and Shakespearean poetic form. The verse is pretty fluid and the characters draw some fascinating comparisons between urban landscapes and the unwieldy structure and pathetic decline of prehistoric creatures. Chloris, a stubborn foe of science and technology, drone long-some, polysyllabic, hypnotic lists of the members of the biological categories...