Zhang's most striking inventions are his divisions of the stage through action behind screens and gauzes.
This is a striking innovation.
But many of the most striking re-inventions have been born in times of crisis.
These beasts are a striking and startling invention, but self-conscious in a way that Malick's dinosaur was not, because they are perhaps too obviously born of Hushpuppy's own unhappiness.
What these women had in common -- and what in the end mattered more than voice lessons or ronds de jambe or shapely breasts -- was a striking talent for self-invention and reinvention.
Rumblers, as Mr. Bader called his invention, achieve their striking effect with a low-frequency tone, in the range of 180 to 360 hertz (between the 33rd and the 46th key on a standard piano keyboard), which penetrates hard surfaces like car doors and windows better than a high tone does.
Both are striking for their architectural rigor and fervid movement invention.
Looking at the data referenced in Table 1, the most striking discrepancy between UK and benchmark institutions is the number of invention disclosures.
Similarly, instead of embracing folk-music-inspired soulfulness, Taneyev caromed from grand scenes thickly redolent of Wagner, Verdi, Meyerbeer and Gounod to striking passages inspired by Handelian oratorios and Mozart's "Don Giovanni," punctuated with fleeting, arresting inventions all his own.
