It is also a voice characterized by inventiveness of incident and a complicated explicitness, not without irony, about sexual matters.
Creativity, in general, is characterised by inventiveness, sensitivity to problems, fluidity and flexibility of thinking as well as originality and novelty (Guilford, 1968, pp. 77/82).
Most of its youngest directors, judging youth not by calendar years but by vigor, inventiveness, and mercurial energy, are over sixty; most of those who have come along in recent years convey the impression of dutifully applying lessons learned and awaiting the approval of critics and audiences for whom such cautious craft is acclaimed as a virtue.
Manual "cordboard" operators, as they were called, were superseded less by the inventiveness of Bell Laboratories, as Mr. Homer maintains, than by competition from more advanced foreign-manufactured telephone systems.
Reviewers who no longer demanded consistency of style or tone seemed exhilarated by the inventiveness of Eliot's language and chilled by Furies transmuted into towering ghosts in white cowls.
Sadly, it is a tiny bit of a disappointment but only by the impossibly high standard already set by the inventiveness of "Middlesex", a tale that mingles Greek mythology with hermaphroditism.The latest Eugenides is a very good novel, one that we defy anyone not to devour.
But consider it this way: globalisation, championed by the American elite, and technological change, driven by American inventiveness, has devoured industrial jobs in the manufacturing states.
The birth of literature in the Middle Ages in France is accompanied by remarkable inventiveness.
Walking around the building, I am constantly struck by the inventiveness of Wren and the brilliance of his craftsmen.
By the second half of the 17th century and into the 18th century, the interior decoration of churches was being transformed by the inventiveness of the stucco workers of Puebla.
If we measure artistic greatness by formal inventiveness, Picasso is the more formidable genius, running ahead of Matisse at every juncture after 1907.
