Sentence examples for creative demons from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the figures appear to be surrogates for Mr. Rauch's creative demons.

Welles -- the prodigiously gifted filmmaker who spent a lifetime chased by creative demons after his first film, "Citizen Kane," marked him, for good and ill, as a genius -- was a legendary enigma, a proud dissembler who repeatedly declared the connection between his art and his life to be irrelevant.

Recently, my sister was wrestling with some creative demons.

Instead, "777" is a lightweight Rihanna hagiography, with none of the live-wire tension or creative demons that D.A. Pennebaker or Martin Scorsese brought to their own classic music docs "Don't Look Back" and "The Last Waltz".

Yet for the most part, thankfully, realism yields to fantasy in the work, which tries to explore something of Nijinsky's creative spirit and inner demons.

His career contradicts another movie star myth, for if creative genius requires emotional demons – as his namesake Charlie, say, would undoubtedly maintain – then Sheen really should not be much of an actor at all.

Like one of his blighted, poisoned, or irremediably stained characters, Hawthorne wasted away, while personal demons balked his creative powers.

More than on her previous tours, this one emphasises Gaga's musical chops, her creative process and her personal demons.

The text concludes, a few pages later, "Ingmar Bergman was like nobody else: a creative mountain of neuroses and demons".

And instead of resorting to stereotypes of wacky squatters and crazy alcoholics, they captured the complexities of people like my mother and father who, for all their faults and demons, were also creative and intelligent with pride and dreams.

At least some of the criticism derives from that demon plaguing the creative classes, whether they cop to it or not: envy.