How to Use poetical in a Sentence

poetical

adjective
  • And Davies’ approach has always been more poetical than technical.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • There are ones who are more ideological, others more poetical.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Wingfield family’s repressions are bound to boil over, but they are lulled into stasis by Williams’ poetical eloquence.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The detailing of this superlative and at times poetical couture — which sparkled throughout with brocade, paillettes, sequins and gleaming silks — spoke for itself.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • African American communities, as well as the melancholy poetical drift of his cinematic style.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • This new way of painting reflected something deeper, something inherently poetical.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
  • With Kydd, the distance produces an interiority that is strenuously poetical and highly self-aware in its lyricism.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • James Connolly once said that no revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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