(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.
Pontic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report reviews nine cases where despite the wide range of treatments applied to the dentition after a traumatic episode, tooth loss was inevitable and the crown of the damaged tooth was used as a pontic for an immediate bridge.
(2) Fixed bridges with a tight but non-compressive contact to the mucosa in the pontic area and with interchangeable test specimens placed in the pontic base were constructed for five patients.
(3) The measuring devices consisted of four strain-gauge transducers uniformly and bilaterally mounted in pontics of maxillary bridges to represent the posterior (end abutment and distal cantilever respectively) and anterior regions.
(4) Optimal pontic design can be accomplished only if each situation is evaluated on an individual basis and an appropriate design selected.
(5) Labial veneering of the pontic with Vitadur-N significantly decreased the stability compared with that of the unveneered In-Ceram framework.
(6) From panoramic radiographs the numbers of remaining teeth, restored teeth (fillings and crowns), pontics, and endodontically treated teeth were assessed in 1968-69 and in a 12-yr follow-up study in 1980-81.
(7) The study also shows that cantilever pontics can be used to achieve and maintain the stability of fixed bridgework.
(8) To apply a particular pontic design arbitrarily is to disregard the work to date which appears to emphasize the individuality of each pontic situation.
(9) This clinical study was an attempt to find out if a patient's home care plaque control at his or her abutment tooth is more effectively enhanced by a modified ridge lap or a hygienic pontic design.
(10) A custom-made porcelain-fused-to-metal ring pontic for a removable partial denture may be color characterized and glazed by use of familiar procedures.
(11) The clinical crown of the patient's extracted tooth was used as a pontic by attaching it to the adjacent teeth with acid-etch bonded resin.
(12) The study consisted of three 4-wk periods with different hygienic measures: 1) no oral hygiene around and beneath the pontic, 2) thorough hygiene using toothbrush and toothpicks and 3) thorough hygiene using a toothbrush and dental floss every day.
(13) The purpose of the present study was to investigate plaque accumulation and inflammatory changes in the mucosa beneath fixed bridge pontics of various materials, in patients cleaning the infrapontic space daily.
(14) A new and simple technique for aesthetic tooth replacement during orthodontic treatment, with a pontic using orthodontic wire mesh, is described and appears in the author's clinical practise to be superior to the other techniques reported previously.
(15) Several factors have been presented that must be evaluated when selecting an appropriate posterior pontic design.
(16) Although the pontics had a much higher mobility than normal teeth, the fatigue limit was found to be above 600 N which is much higher than the average biting forces acting on the first and second molars.
(17) The base of the pontic for a fixed partial denture should be made buccolingually as the mirror image of the crest of the residual ridge it is to contact, and it should follow mesiodistally the contour and length of the clinical crowns of the adjacent abutment teeth.
(18) Consequently, special attention should be given to the more flexible pontic which might very possibly cause injury to the abutment teeth under the first two conditions.
(19) The bridges involved a mean of only 3.9 units (retainers and pontics).
(20) In this area the compress stress is largest, when the vertical loading is applied on the two-abutment tooth and pontic, the sigma 2 is -120.0 but the stress of alveolar bone of the molar is uniform.