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Alexandrine


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
  • (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This marked the first meeting between Alexandrine and Roman pontiffs since 451.
  • (2) Alexandrine parakeets, originally from Asia, and blue-crowned conures, from Venezuela, have also been observed nesting in eastern England.
  • (3) We have 24 different nationalities on our books, and the club is stronger for it,” said the youth team coach, José Alexandrine.

Poetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Poetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
  • (2) This creativity frequently emerges from an aesthetic, poetic sense of freedom derived from work, an uninhibited playful activity of exploring a medium for its own sake.
  • (3) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
  • (4) His own poetics emerged in The African Image (1962), a major contribution to the debate on African aesthetics.
  • (5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
  • (6) "There is something extraordinarily poetic about smoking - from the gesture of holding a cigarette, turning it on, smoking it, the taste of it, the smell of it, I love every-thing about smoking."
  • (7) In a rather poetic-sounding list called the “fragility index” we are again somewhere at the bottom, or is it on top?
  • (8) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
  • (9) But know this America: they will be met.” The language was at its most poetic then too, with Obama signalling his promise to reduce inequality, for example, more elliptically than in later speeches: “The nation cannot prosper long when it favours only the prosperous”.
  • (10) That means "no longer romanticising terrorists as Robin Hoods and no longer idealising their deeds as rough poetic justice".
  • (11) At the end of the concert, this guy comes over with long hair and lipstick and he says ‘Hi how are you doing, I’m Brian Eno.’ I thought wow this is poetic justice … here’s Brian Eno listening to me, that’s great.
  • (12) The principle is that ordinary people have extraordinary thoughts — I've always believed that — and that ordinary people can speak poetically.
  • (13) His favourite book is The Poetic Edda, a landmark collection of Old Norse poetry.
  • (14) A Stoßgebet is a last-ditch prayer, and Schoß is a poetic term for female genitals.
  • (15) On the other hand, the discrepancies and absurdities, appearing again and again in his poetic products, are due to his habit of taking dream and its illogical connections as a model.
  • (16) And I suppose she has a poetic sensibility in that way."
  • (17) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
  • (18) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
  • (19) So the Middle East continues to implode – but amid the chaos emerges a further force, perhaps incredibly, a poetic and literary one.
  • (20) If this is close enough, Canelo may have a chance in Mayweather-Alvarez III, but clear unanimous points decision for my boyo Floyd in this one Daniel SanMateo rather poetically emails (read to the final paragraph): Mayweather looked formidable on the weighing day, but seemed not to be taking too seriously his opponent.

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