| Who gave her anything close to the right to poeticize this death and this mother's slow disintegration? |
| If you find this strange, think of how we poeticize nature into our greatest literature. |
| She's his posthumous enabler, cutting him plenty of slack for his male needs, allowing him to poeticize his libido, making his affair with Wevill an artistic necessity. |
| Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject. |
| Many writers have tried to poeticize drug abuse, to portray their habits as fanciful rather than merely destructive. |
