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In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical.

I find them stirring, dramatic, and not unpoetical.

We think a pillar-box unpoetical, because we have never seen it in a poem.

Mr. Henderson has answered that the people is unpoetical.

"It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme.

An unpoetical term, yet still very graphic.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures.

Well, the Government has seized all this in effect, and will yet seize it in rigid and unpoetical reality, no doubt.

A committed abolitionist with an innately patronizing manner ("How marvelously unpoetical these people!"

One can only conclude that we are presented here with a deliberately unpoetical poem, an assault upon the cultivated reader's exquisite sensibility.

The rain he finally attributed to the stars, the moon, and the sun; but his hypothesis was entirely unlovely and unpoetical.

The word "signal-box" is unpoetical.

In other respects it is as unpoetical and unmetaphysical as my gravest friends could desire."

-Caesar is typically unpoetical.

THESE peoples are not unpoetical.

These young poets, if asked, would in most instances boast of unpoetical origins, because the culture itself is considered intrinsically unpoetical.

I suppose you will think me horribly unpoetical if I add that she drank several glasses of champagne one after the other, a fact which perhaps may account for the change.

Among those who admired his photography was Thomas Mann, who praised "the harsh beauty of their ugliness, the romanticism of the commonplace, the poetry of the unpoetical."

But the thing signal-box is not unpoetical; it is a place where men, in an agony of vigilance, light blood-red and sea-green fires to keep other men from death.

It has come down in a very corrupt state, and its difficulties are increased by the unpoetical nature of the subject, the straining after conciseness, and the obtrusive use of metaphor.

Originally the novel was supposed to be an answer to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, a work that Novalis had read with enthusiasm but later on judged as being highly unpoetical.

The Attic Plain, barring the grape-vines, was a barren, desolate, unpoetical waste - I wonder what it was in Greece's Age of Glory, five hundred years before Christ?

What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet... A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity, he is continually filling some other body."

Their son Charles Deville Wells, after his father's death, achieved a notoriety which was unpoetical, although recorded in popular song, for he was the once-famous "man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo."

Moritz Winternitz (Geschichte der indischen Literatur 1909) considered that "only unpoetical theologists and clumsy scribes" could have lumped the parts of disparate origin into an unordered whole.

It is a triumph of poetic genius over unpoetic matter.

It would be impolite and unpoetic to drink my cup here.

For the snake, two unpoetic years in a burlap bag or basket follow.

The results, however, were generally pedestrian and unpoetic.

Hughie came toward them, sturdy, middle-aged and unpoetic for all his head was under blossoms.

A woman who dashes off a poem at an unpoetic moment cannot be called a woman of taste.

Even stubbornly unpoetic souls fall under the spell.

Drenched and hungry, he felt himself better able to see the thing in sane and unpoetic light.

An unpoetic voice and lesser stylist would have made them patly predictable.

I only write death poetry (bad unpoetic stuff at best) when I am morbid."

They were oddly unpoetic, yet very much in keeping with the kind of man Nicholas had come to know Sato was.

I particularly admire the handling of "agapanthus," which, on its own, seems a rather unpoetic word.

I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor.

The sorrowful words, filled with water and fire imagery, are straightforward and resolutely unpoetic.

But puppeteers were so completely unpoetic.

Unreasonable to ask for more, and yet--perhaps fundamentally unpoetic.

Still more disastrous for them has been the virgin birth, with the terrible fascination of its detail for unpoetic minds.

You never notice how commonplace and unpoetic gravel is, until you bite into a layer of it in a pie.

"Scorpions sound unpoetic to me.

The savant becomes unpoetic.

The show's lyrics are blunt and understandably unpoetic, its music suitably spiky, dark and dissonant.

With grievous unpoetic license, the illustrator gave George a beanie topped with a propeller.

It proves to be an ode to marriage, conceived by the Judge to fill the lack left by the unpoetic nature of marriage.

His poems, which delve into traditionally unpoetic subjects like pesky neighborhood dogs and the pleasures of a good meal, are deceptively simple.

The Unpoetic Circle from the album, Painter s Palette...