Sentence examples for inventive power from inspiring English sources

The sheer inventive power of her new novel pulls you through, gasping, to the final page".

The sheer inventive power of her new novel pulls you through, gasping, to the final page". The winner will be announced on 14 October.

Despite the inventive power of these ideas, the appeal of the cardboard models, plastic maquettes and obscurantist drawings that represent them at the Barbican is inevitably limited.

When "The Time Machine" appeared, Joseph Conrad, electrified by Wells's inventive power, wrote to him in praise, calling him "a realist of the fantastic".

So the play's finale, which was meant to demonstrate the newfound power of the author, ends up demonstrating the inventive power of the director.

I wish I could have enjoyed this silly romp, but Smetana's music has an inventive power that soon makes Mr. Taylor's giggly, fun-poking treatment of heterosexual and insectile antics seem facile.

He early showed considerable mechanical skill and inventive powers.

Baron Cohen possesses a great comic talent and remarkable inventive powers.

I appreciate his inventive powers and his objectivity; his feel for society, politics and human weakness," he said.

In 1782, at the height of his inventive powers, he patented the double-acting engine, in which the piston pushed as well as pulled.

Wagner understood Mendelssohn's inventive powers as an orchestrator, as is shown in his own opera The Flying Dutchman, and, later, the French composers of the 20th century learned much from his grace and perfection of style.