It stands to reason that a 90-minute "Hamlet" can't be poetic other than in passing.

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It would be poetic justice if Mr Sharif were convicted hurriedly by the very courts he rashly set up, but that is not the kind of justice Pakistan needs.

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This theory, he admits, may be more poetic than real, but it's true that modern Argentina has had a lot of influence from European immigration, particularly from independence in the 19th century until the 1950s, when immigration restrictions tightened during the country's military dictatorships.

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Unlike the crown, which is awarded on the Monday of eisteddfod week for poems in the free metres, the chair is reserved for poems in cynghanedd, the ancient system of strict poetic metres which requires poems to be written in a complex mix of consonantal harmony, stress, rhythm and rhyme.

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He depicts the gang violence, family burdens, authoritarian schooling, broken romance, and grinding poverty that proved to be the crucible of his clear-eyed, poetic artistry.

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Even the poetic powers of John Updike, a golf fan, would be stretched to conjure up new ways to call Tiger Woods the best golfer of all time.

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It's poetic justice - just as Japan's Liberal Democratic Party wanted it to be.

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No: if Mr Prescott was under fire, this reshuffle would have to be analysed straight, given its proper due as a piece of serious high politics, unadorned with poetic or filmic flourishes.

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