Sentence examples similar to inventive self from inspiring English sources

"We were seeking work by individuals who may have no formal training," she said, "be self-taught, be compulsive, inventive, self-motivated, demonstrate spontaneous personal invention or fundamental creative impulse, and constantly return to the same motifs or an intense elaboration of them".

The essay bemoans what Wallace saw as the near-impossibility of writing inventive, self-aware fiction in a television culture.

But Smith was also the maker of exquisite hand-painted films and an inventive, self-trained painter.

And if Mr. Roth has been an unusually frank and inventive self-portraitist, he has also painted vast and intricate canvases of everything else.

Hemingway set the modern gold standard for inventive self-branding, burnishing his image with photo ops from safaris, fishing trips and war zones.

The chef, Willy Moya, studied cooking in Paris and his inventive, self-assured cooking reveals a French influence while remaining firmly rooted in Andalusia.

But the Chargers are legitimate contenders; they lead the A.F.C. in yards per game (399.6), lead the N.F.L. in fewest yards allowed per game (265.5), and lead the planet in inventive self-sabotage, which explains their 7-6 record.

Last fall, when I saw Nicholas Ray's brilliant, furiously inventive, self-flaying final masterpiece, "We Can't Go Home Again," which he shot in 1971-72, I was struck among other things by his ability and his willingness to depart thoroughly from the conventions of Hollywood filmmaking, within which he had made his entire great career up to that time.

Recycling reveals gardeners to be thrifty, inventive and self-sufficient, all part of our "green" ethic.

Hong Sang-soo is among the most inventive and self-scourging filmmakers of the twenty-first century.

It was daredevil, inventive, funny and self-mocking.