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On the other hand, his personification may highlight his fundamental incompatibility with science, since he cannot help but poeticize the mundane.

In the journal, Kočić was able to poeticize prose less radically (than others), by holding on to satirical and diadactic representations of society.

In Espronceda's Song to Teresa, a heartwrenching confession of love and disillusion, he has managed to poeticize his feelings with great success.

Later, doing pastoral scenes and rocky coastlines, he developed a larger perspective, dealing more with the light, space and atmospheric effects that 19th-century artists used to poeticize Nature as "the sublime."

Visually the film doesn't try to "poeticize" any of the memories with glossy travel brochure images or romantic music: life and death may be serious matters, but they are also business as usual.

Obviously, this urge to poeticize matches the fact that in our present state only two social types, two human endeavors, enjoy any regard: art and science, the poet and the physicist, or their counterparts.

(Williams, who had rather more self-awareness than he's usually credited with, once told an interviewer that his chief debility "has been a tendency to what people call . . . to poeticize, you know.")

The washed-out browns and grays of the rocky hills and caves reflect the villagers' constricted lives; he refuses to prettify or poeticize their landscape or their long history of servitude.

"I told him, 'We're trying to poeticize this fluidity of Jews between their religious and secular self,' " said Mr. Neuman, who earned a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard Divinity School. "

Sean Kelly Gallery 528 West 29th Street, Chelsea Through Thursday The romantic title of this show, a reference to the island birthplace of Aphrodite, helps poeticize the artist's lyrical arrangements of rich, gooey layers of lacquer on translucent plexiglass.

Although he can't resist a trio of self-conscious monologues that poeticize his themes, Mr. Godber does have a feel for the comic, visceral anecdote, whether in the loo or on the street corner, that nails the plight of his caged-in proles.

In art-history books, she is usually described as a descendant of Bruce Nauman, who in the mid-1960's made a concrete cast of the space under his chair, titled, with almost comic refusal to poeticize, "A Cast of the Space Under My Chair."