Sentence examples for creative origin from inspiring English sources

"Parrot & Olivier in America" (Knopf; $26.95) is a delicious, sprockety contraption, a comic historical picaresque that takes as its creative origin Tocqueville and Beaumont's 1831 journey, but freely improvises many English, and even Australian, extras.

If there is nothing wrong with using other people's ideas, why would you go to such lengths to condemn the author and book which provided the creative origin for your work?

If he forfeits his amateur status and sells the image without outlining its creative origin — yes (this is akin to a comedian who steals jokes verbatim and merely changes the delivery).

(I'm reminded of a similar creative origin story, relayed by Alana Newhouse in the Times Magazine: it recently came to light that Roman Vishniac's famous series of photos of pre-war Polish shtetl life began as a commission for the Joint Distribution Committee, a relief organization dedicated to helping threatened Jews worldwide).

Dr Michael Bloomfield is an anthropologist with a PhD in mankind's creative origins, and a former lecturer at the University of East London.

In her mind, his ranch sprang to life; she put it in the back yard of their new home, under the foothills of the Rockies, though it had its creative origins in frenetic Los Angeles, beneath high-tension wires and airplanes and ozone alerts.

Haberland suggests that the absence of surviving colonial-era Pueblo textile examples make it impossible to do more than conjecture about whether the creative origins of Navajo weaving arose from Navajo culture or were borrowed from the neighboring people.

We have to understand our origin and our creative source.

Creationist Richard B. Bliss used the phrase "creative design" in Origins: Two Models: Evolution, Creation (1976), and in Origins: Creation or Evolution (1988) wrote that "while evolutionists are trying to find non-intelligent ways for life to occur, the creationist insists that an intelligent design must have been there in the first place".

Eric Holmes acts as Arkham Origins creative director.

However, as Simonton has argued, random combinations of "mental elements" in the unconscious can lead to highly surprising and creative ideas whose origins remain "unknowable" to the individual [36].