Sentence examples for innovative figure from inspiring English sources

In the history of Western painting, Turner looms large as a prodigiously gifted, productive and innovative figure.

Mr. Riggio, a tough and innovative figure, was hailed as the most powerful man in the book business.

She has been a hugely innovative figure and now chairs the European Sponsorship Association which seeks to educate marketeers, and she also works in mentoring.

For Ray Kurzweil, an expert in artificial intelligence and an innovative figure in computing, the events are already accelerating technologies that allow work, and people, to be dispersed rather than centralized.

C. R. Johnson, an innovative figure in the young professional sport of free skiing and a medal winner in X Games competitions, died Wednesday while skiing on treacherous terrain at Squaw Valley resort in California.

(Rosenberg) WAYNE THIEBAUD: 'THE FIGURE' While best known for his Pop-realist paintings of food products, Mr. Thiebaud has also been a skillful and innovative figure painter, as this fine show of paintings and drawings dating from 1963 to 1992 demonstrates.

Once marginalized as a "painter of dancers," Degas is now counted among the most complex and innovative figures of his generation, credited with influencing Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and many of the leading figurative artists of the 20th century.

American theatrical producer and director who from the 1960s was recognized as one of the most creative and innovative figures on Broadway.

The impressive selection sparkles with innovative figures from the new global economy, pathfinders like Stephen M. Case of AOL Time Warner, Frederick W. Smith of FedEx, Jorma Ollila of Nokia, Richard Branson of Virgin and Stan Shih of Acer in Taiwan.

About that time Olson joined the faculty of Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts school in Black Mountain, N.C., that housed such innovative figures as the architect R. Buckminster Fuller and the composer John Cage.

Innovative figures in history, like Madame C. J. Walker and Henry Ford, were cunning, original thinkers who dove headfirst into uncertainty.