Sentence examples for no invention from inspiring English sources

Add Brown's habit of inventing where no invention is needed — there are no departments of "symbology," but there are departments of semiotics, where Langdon would fit right in — and you have a surface less commercially calculated than genuinely eccentric.

At the time the crown opposed granting an award; when Macrae was asked what elements of the sticky bomb he claimed to have invented, he replied "I am claiming no invention; I merely claim the development of the bomb, which was my job".

In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.

There is no invention in the word, qua word, which he can protect.

No invention, no effort to imagine himself inside his characters, just sober reportage, inhibited by a good historian's scruples.

In the immortal words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention".

When pressed, most contemporary Druids admit that their way of life is an invention no older than the eighteenth century; many prefer not to call Druidry a religion.

If computers are no longer inventions themselves, they remain a great stage for inventions.

If she has no "inventions" to offer the world just now, she takes great pride in her published scientific research and, with her first professorship already behind her, science remains her passion.

"No new invention and no changes in life style.

Yet it was by no means an invention: someone once collected the various words he used for a drink.