The staging is inventive and fluid, but the dramaturgy sometimes needs a helping hand.
His work in every medium was both inventive and antivirtuosic.
And Mr. Gordon made all this interweaving of reality and illusion both inventive and witty.
But his take on "Body and Soul" was a quiet astonishment, both inventive and respectful.
Our faculty members are both extraordinarily inventive and talented.
"You've got to be both accurate and inventive and not let the inventiveness destroy the accuracy," he said.
It's fluid, inventive and clear.
They have been fluid, inventive and attacking, with Mesut Özil, the antithesis of the 1990s German footballer, at the heart of it.
And it's clear in that movie, too, that Mr. Jackson is not one of those indie filmmakers (like, for example, Mr. Waters) who is temperamentally averse to employing more sophisticated cinematic techniques: the shots are artfully composed, the editing energetic and precise, the camera movements inventive, fluid and frequent.
With Karim Benzema unlikely to be available, it is tempting to deploy Olivier Giroud as the fulcrum for the midfielders to feed off, but better to save that as an option to be used from the bench and start with the fluid, fast, inventive and in-form trio of Anthony Martial, Antoine Griezmann and Dimitri Payet.
