But then every few years a creation like Tony Soprano comes along, and it's "forget about it" all over again.
Except that – as a creation like Santiago Swallow elegantly illustrates – much of the time people themselves are more like a medium through which stories flow.
(Knock-on job creation like this can be a positive side effect of microloans, one not always obvious in a Kiva profile).
Then it hits me that he considers the James Corden who appears on the telly saying the unsayable to be a creation, just like Smithy is a creation.
"Yes," he says bluntly, "but urbanisation is a human creation like money, or banks, and you need a designed system of wealth distribution [to go with it].
The going price for elaborate Steampunk creations like this tends to easily wander into the thousands, so this is actually a very reasonable ask from project creator Kyle Miller.
His creations, like this welted oxford with hand-stitched ridges, are entirely handmade more than 30 hours go into each pair and he likes to "live, breathe and sleep" surrounded by shoes in various stages of construction.
The Inca empire, a recent creation like that of the Aztecs in Central America, ruled the Andes.
She's a fascinating creation, like Mr. Mednick's play, and just as wrenching to be around.
Conservatives may have made adroit use of the new sense of the word, but it was basically a liberal creation, like the celebration of diversity that accompanies it.
I remember a few Liz Gorski creations like that — this one and most recently this one — but I wanted to incorporate the ladder into longer phrases and use some fancy shading or circles.
