Sentence examples for act of invention from inspiring English sources

It is a cleverly sustained act of invention, but the novel runs against the limits of invention, too.

"To be sure, it found an important and useful gene, but separating that gene from its surrounding genetic material is not an act of invention".

The foundation is no longer stressing patents over the act of invention since many developing countries have no patent system at all or a poorly enforced one.

Being, in your brother's words, 'more white than the whites.' That was your singular act of invention: every day you woke up to be what you had made yourself".

M. C. Escher's impossible worlds, where water seems to flow uphill or stairs to lead simultaneously up and down, or even the famous line drawing that can appear to be both duck and rabbit, remind us that seeing is as much an act of invention as discovery.

An inventor, on the other hand, deprives the public of nothing that existed prior to the act of invention (Bugbee 1967).

Bloom's primary insight was that contemporary literary study imputed a false benignity to the act of poetic invention, when in reality it grew out of competitive struggle, pitting young poets against their elders.

As about-turns go, it's every bit as tedious as the bait-and-switch atheist polemic that found its way into the final act of The Invention Of Lying, or the anti-celebrity diatribe that wrapped up the Extras Christmas special.

Under the provisions of the Patents Act of Singapore, inventions created by employees, especially inventions in the areas of the employee's expertise, belong to the employers.

The hero of Homer's "Odyssey" is a modern man in ancient times, an eloquent outfoxer whose life is one long, furious act of self-invention.

Sullivan's own act of self-invention has been not only to write himself into the sentence-level tradition of Southern literature, but to extend it.