How to Use poetical in a Sentence

poetical

adjective
  • Much of the language in the work is thrilling, poetical.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
  • The same author’s notes that identify the post-poetical transfer specify the time frames in which the volumes were written.
    Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • It is furnished with an old campaign chair and sundry poetical odds and ends, including fragments of tapestry; one shows the crown heads of a king and queen — or father and mother.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Levy has spun a web of violent beauty and poetical ennui.
    Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2017
  • But inspiration that even another artist can hear, and a painter can listen to and paint his greatest painting because of the poetical words that’s passing through his mind.
    Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The vision of a father in a suit and tie receiving the poetical embellishments of his children would have been as remote as an account of an Aztec coronation.
    Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • This ingredient is as classic as Ivory soap—and, like that product, possessed of a pristine snowy-white visual appeal and a buoyancy both literal and poetical.
    Forest Evashevski, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • The audience, for Gorman, is not an abstraction but a collaborator in her mode of rousing, outward-facing, and civic-minded poetical speech.
    Doreen St. Félix, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
  • It’s not a pedantic comparison, the political Yeats and poetical Pearse.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • These poetical explanations were nice but unnecessary for a collection that didn’t need any gimmicks to impress.
    Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • With Kydd, the distance produces an interiority that is strenuously poetical and highly self-aware in its lyricism.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This new way of painting reflected something deeper, something inherently poetical.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Barclay distilled the play and music to about two hours, translated the poetical spoken text into modern-day, vernacular English, and interpolated contemporary references to engage audiences and elicit laughter.
    Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2022
  • However, publishers of this paper haven’t always been supportive of poetical aspirations.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Delirious, poetical, semi-comical genre pieces, mixing homely detail and hallucinogenic invention.
    Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017

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