Word: poeticizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lyrical text demands extraordinary acting. The players must give credibility to moments of farce, such as a refrigerator filled with nothing but artichokes, or a brother urinating on his sister's chart for a 4-H science project. Yet they must also preserve enough dignity to bring off sustained poetic speeches, including a climactic account of a midair battle between an eagle and a cat who doom each other to a fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober and responsible man. His place...
Although no one in the group sang, two members of the band occasionally interrupted the languid, drawn-out notes of the violin and base with readings of passages of Italo Calvino’s book, Invisible Cities. Perhaps too obscurely poetic to be fully grasped or even enjoyed, the band’s bizarre music, nevertheless, had a calming, almost hypnotic quality, which sadly was periodically obliterated by intentionally jarring outbursts of radio static. There is no need to say that the band continuously kept its audience guessing for what would come next...
...asking each other, “what’s that I smell/see/hear?” while responding with musings on each sense. The two performers work well together; both are unassuming and casual while maintaining both conversational sense and a steady rhythm and emotional intensity befitting of their poetic dialogue...
Henry Grunwald's Essay is a fitting finale to your memorable issue, but I do not agree with the rough translation of his father's poetic phrase "Deine Heimat ist wo das Glck dich grsst." Rather than translating it "Home is where you are happy," I prefer the more literal "Your home is where good fortune welcomes you." I think that expresses more accurately the reason immigrants want to make the U.S. their home. Sol Z. Abraham Denver...
Rosenblatt found his first perspective in May, when he met Yoshitaka Kawamoto, the director of Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Museum. "He had been in the city during the bombing," says Rosenblatt. "He had a deep sense of the experience and could express it in poetic language. For the next five days, I stayed with him as he revisited all the sites of his early life and provided his account of the bombing...