Sentence examples for well invented from inspiring English sources

The Graduate got Nichols his best director Academy award and in it he pretty well invented the romcom staple: the last-minute rush to prove your love.

Apple pretty well invented the market segment, got the product broadly right with the initial iPad in April 2010, and then improved it with the iPad 2 in March 2011.

I was performing there in the poetry tent and lingered afterwards and saw The Last Poets – the guys who pretty well invented rap, with two, three or four voices talking at the same time.

Futurism pretty well invented the trick Balla's dachshund is funny in the same way little dogs are in life – shown pelting along the pavement, rather faster than its legs can carry it, running itself off its feet in a blur of frantic activity.

His full-frontal writing style must have been startling at the time, and combined with his use of brand names ("I see no point in changing the name of the Dorchester to the Porchester...".) and love of technical detail he pretty well invented the modern thriller.

Over the next twenty years, he and his handpicked team of fellow "detectives" (all former criminals as well) invented most of the foundations of modern criminology.

It's an idea quite shopworn by now and tediously repeated by novelists nowadays: history is fiction, one cannot quite know what happened so one might as well invent it, and so forth.

He was militarily influential as well, inventing and implementing several major battlefield tactics.

Well invent and experiment with that.

The science Wells invents to explain invisibility also feels more convincing and appealing than his attempts in The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, the two other novels of his that I've read.

(Latin and German, as well as African dialects, and what may well be invented languages mingle with Italian on the harshly dubbed soundtrack).