Word: poeticizing
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...Water Paintings are the freest images Raffael has so far made, and by far the most poetic. The blots, scribbles and stains of the paint-closely worked and yet oddly abstract, as if performed in a trance-are analogues to the liquidity of water itself. Paint "equals" water in much the same way as, in some Renaissance portraiture, the graininess of pigment "equals" the cellular structure of flesh...
...himself the individual studied. Comparisons with Fellini's 8 1/2 are hard to avoid, and they are not to the advantage of Truffaut's film. Truffaut has even borrowed Fellini's peculiar crane shots, although he shunts aside mention of the similarities by saying that 8 1/2 is "more poetic...
Utzon's idea was entirely sculptural and poetic. The son of a naval architect, Utzon had grown up near ship and sea and within sight of Elsinore castle...
Despite his ultra-British manner, he was an American poet through earnestly adopted nationality and 30 years' residence. Until Wystan Hugh Auden died in Vienna last week at 66, no contemporary writer struck so well or held so long and so humanely the characteristic poetic note...
...political quest for the just city began to take a decisive turn-back from politics to what had always been its central problems, guilt, anxiety and individual man. A poetic drama, The Ascent of F6, written with Isherwood, was crucial. It began as a political satire and ended up as a sort of medieval mystery play. "One saw oneself in the presence of evil-from the beginning," Auden would later explain, "and one realized how difficult it would be to change...