He would never have dreamed that a Hermian was capable of such a poetic flight of imagination.

She gets carried away in her romantic poetic flight, swearing by several "broken" vows as well as true ones.

Seydor's movie is also a poetic flight on the myriad possibilities of movie directing.

Inside, the fortunate snaked slowly around a long refectory table set with insect-shaped lamps made of folded rice paper, as if ready to take poetic flight.

Three ill-assorted actors perversely manage to crash-land attempted poetic flights and turn overheated language into dead prose.

For one thing, it is difficult not to be confounded by the rambling poetic flights of Hannah's prose.

Christie's face fell, then she exclaimed laughing: "That's always the way; I never take a poetic flight but in comes the mush, and spoils it all."

This remains a rational, earthy "Dream" about society -clashing classes and cultures -rather than a poetic flight into the irrational realms of love.

Finnur Jónsson characterized Einarr's poetry as "dry narratives without any poetic flight" and that as a poet Einarr is to be rated "on the whole, not highly".