poeticisms

Such poets replaced the "poeticisms" of their elders with a stark, emotional directness.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

Hammerstein's tendency towards thin characterisation, philosophical naivety and self-conscious poeticisms don't meet his pupil's exacting standards.

Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review David Benedict 2010

Mr. Burgess's narrator hero, Alex, was pungently odious; addicted to mugging and rape, intoxicated with his own command of the language (a newly minted teen-age slang, plus poeticisms, sneers, and sadistic purring), Alex was something both better and worse than a murderer: he was murderous.

Horror Show Ricks, Christopher 1972

This poetry is also musically astute and demanding; it may surprise and alert the parental reader; and it has its share of archaisms and poeticisms, which, contrary to adult surmise, bemuse and fascinate children.

Songs of Childhood Walter De la Mare 1914

Last time it was internet-speak poeticisms and now his upcoming co-star, Anthony Mackie, has served up get i...

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jessie Heyman 2012

Last time it was internet-speak poeticisms and now his upcoming co-star, Anthony Mackie, has served up get i...

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jessie Heyman 2012

Gale's text is given to such poeticisms as "I will live in the winter of my life" that might have taken wing had there been a good score attached.

chicagotribune.com - News 2010

Since then, I have been getting by on increasingly desperate alliteration and empty poeticisms.

An Unreliable Witness 2008

Even a very early lyric, like "How sweet I roam'd from field to field", supposedly written before Blake's 14th year, and which at first sight appears to echo the most threadbare poeticisms of the time "And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage" means little more than "The sunshine made me want to sing"--even this apparently most insipid and conventional verse has a moral darkness and complexity of thought that we recognise as truly Blakeian, however young he was when he wrote it:

News at Eleven: But it isn't banal. Rus Bowden 2010

Even a very early lyric, like "How sweet I roam'd from field to field", supposedly written before Blake's 14th year, and which at first sight appears to echo the most threadbare poeticisms of the time "And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage" means little more than "The sunshine made me want to sing"--even this apparently most insipid and conventional verse has a moral darkness and complexity of thought that we recognise as truly Blakeian, however young he was when he wrote it:

Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010