But they are also hauntingly poetic, uncovering a strange, human beauty underneath all the grit.
While her poetic prose sweep you away, Morrie's simple wisdom has the same affect.
When the mix is brimming with poetic wisdom and a deep energetic sexuality, cool to taste.
Later that year, Jones began to appear regularly with a funk-fusion band called Wax Poetic.
When Newton put the internal rhyme "amazing grace" together, it wasn't purely for poetic reasons.
And, indeed, the movie has dazzled many with its epic, poetic search for cosmic truth.
He studied in the U.S., and his English is so articulate that it borders on poetic.
It's poetic justice - just as Japan's Liberal Democratic Party wanted it to be.
For dramatic effect, such poetic license is fine in such a movie, according to Foner.
These momentary glimpses into Mr Ford's life are tantalising, edging towards a striking poetic style.
You go through a wonderful journey and at the end of it you get poetic justice.
It stands to reason that a 90-minute "Hamlet" can't be poetic other than in passing.
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In 1917, Carlos Gardel recorded the poetic "Mi Noche Triste" (My Sad Night).
Setting forth "an array of mirrors on a tower" sounds like an admirably romantic and poetic enterprise.
Mr MacAdams, aged 66, seems philosophical, or poetic, about his quest and the meaning of the river.
Today, Mr. Van Zandt's cult status stems partly from his terse poetic purity and luckless-troubadour personal story.
Successful tsiattistaes (poet-singers) exhibit ready wit, deep familiarity with poetic and musical traditions, a rich vocabulary and an active imagination.
There is something about Oregon that ignites something close to poetic inspiration, even among the most level-headed types.
"In a poetic sense, we are using nature's weapons, nature's cleansing agents, to solve a problem, " Tan said.
It illogically inverts the expression, does not have the excuse of poetic license and veritably screams its wrongness.
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The murder, with its scratched poetic yearnings, sets Wesley and Aurelia on a quest that lasts two decades.
That's poetic since Obama spent the last several months being pummeled by Hispanics' affection for the Clinton brand.
When we say "running, " however, we're taking a slight amount of poetic license.
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Attempting to portray this as the result of natural gas drilling is taking poetic license to near criminal extremes.
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But "Spirit" evokes, through its poetic spirit, the mysterious power of silent film.
Eliot and Robert Frost meet in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1947 and, over tea, try to reconcile their poetic differences.
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And the effect, of a whirling sonic tempest, turns the piece into a dazzling feat of poetic and technical virtuosity.
Palmer himself waxes poetic about the Irish Stew and Jig dancing he plans to experience while slumming in the steerage.
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Filmmaker Michael Apted borrows Kaku's quirky comment for the title of his charming, poetic new film on how scientists create.
Shelley had perhaps already sensed that public and poetic language were diverging when he called poets the world's unacknowledged legislators.
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