Word: poeticizing
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...Spreading liberty overseas is certainly a noble aspiration, but Bush’s plan for defeating tyranny is about as well conceived as University President Lawrence H. Summers’ plan for empowering female science professors—and about as tactfully articulated. When Bush waxed poetic about the “untamed fire of freedom,” for instance, the phrase likely had a very special meaning to the citizens of Fallujah...
...George W. Bush's hand wavered in the air as he took the oath of office, pushing against the words "so help me God." The speech that followed was humane and poetic, if uncertainly delivered; the President later admitted he had been pretty nervous. Bush's hand was rock solid last week as the oath was administered, his look calm and confident-but the speech that followed was far less accommodating than the one in 2001. It was, in fact, a fearsome statement of petulant idealism, a challenge to the nation and the world. It was a powerful and admirable...
...tower is a spiritual quest," says Libeskind. "Whether it's San Gimignano or the Freedom Tower, it's about the ancient poetic desire to reach the sky." And even sometimes to reach it by pretzeled means. Twelve years ago, the very visionary architect Peter Eisenman was commissioned to design a showcase building for the recently unified Berlin, a combination of offices and hotel and retail space to be called the Max Reinhardt Haus, after the also very visionary German theater producer. For inspiration, Eisenman turned to nothing less than the Mbius strip, the 3-D geometric form produced...
ItisablessingindisguiseforKerrythat he did not win. No human being, however well endowed with skills of leadership and statesmanship, could possibly clean up the mess Bush has created. So it is poetic justice that Bush was re-elected to clean up his mess...
...vistas and skillful use of color ordinarily would not be enough in the post-Lord of the Rings cinematic landscape. But the scenery is discovered by the characters and audience simultaneously. Their wonder at the astonishing scenery contrasts adroitly with the surrounding ugliness of petty human motivations, achieving a poetic effect far beyond mere appreciation of pleasant backgrounds...