unpoetic
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“I wanted unromantic, unpoetic, unsanitized visions of death. I wanted the naked, banal reality of this thing that will come to us all.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
When he came up with the jarringly unpoetic opening words to “People Make the World Go Round,’’ Creed hated them: “Trash men didn’t get my trash today/Oh why, because they want more pay.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2018
Book, son and father merge into "the vernacular, unpoetic and expressive and pointblank, with all the vernacular's glaring limitations, and all its durable force".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2013
I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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