Sentence examples for powers of invention from inspiring English sources

There's no doubting Crace's powers of invention as a writer; it's just that inventiveness isn't necessarily a guarantee of interest.

In fact, Fernández-Armesto's real subject is man's extraordinary powers of invention when it comes to finding and preparing food, an inventiveness he himself reflects by creating a mini-epic of eight chapters that document eight revolutions in our sometimes heroic, sometimes comic, sometimes pathetic quest to improve upon mere survival.

Only his powers of invention were real.

I didn't consider I had great powers of invention.

Fischer's powers of invention are well-nigh heroic.

There are limits even to Glover's powers of invention.

Kushner employs a similarly eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical.

But it does not always demand much originality or power of invention.

That power of invention was reflected in every bar of a buoyant performance.

But what an argument for the power of invention: many of the prisoners believed they were fictional characters!

Ultimately, the lessons she offers us may be about the limitations of history, and the power of invention.