Side-note: Position of Plato as an innovator on the received faith and traditions.
In the presentation of this high type of character Cibber has again become an innovator and has made a positive contribution to the drama of the period.
Steele is generally given the credit of being the innovator who reformed the stage,[58] although Ward and others give some credit to the work of Cibber.
But to take the initiative in a new artistic style in dress brings the innovator not one hair’s breadth nearer his assumed goal of æsthetic satisfaction.
Socrates "was indicted as an irreligious man, a corrupter of youth, and an innovatorin worship.
Not unlikely he recalled with pride that he was credited with being no less aninnovator in athletics than in philosophy.
He was an innovator who here first accentuated the upward sweep of Gothic lines.
An innovatorwas the architect of Chartres' belfry when he placed open windows in the gables.
Hence, in their opinion, he was little else than aninnovator and an enthusiast.
The majority of Hunter's contemporaries considered his pursuits to have little connexion with practice, charged him with attending to physiology more than surgery, and looked on him as little better than an innovator and an enthusiast.
One is born a conservative or an innovatorjust as one is born a painter or a surgeon.
The reason is that in the present state of feeling the innovator is almost sure to be misunderstood.
He was an innovator in both Assyriology and Egyptology.
This must be true, in the nature of things, of the work of anyinnovator in science; but, as we have seen, the whole modern science of Egyptology rests securely on the foundation which Champollion laid.
The work of another famous pupil of Champollion, and innovator in Egyptology.
Champollion’s work has received comprehensive attention in our text (see Egypt, Chapter XI) in connection with the interpretation of the hieroglyphics, in which work Champollion was an innovator of the first rank.
Birch suffered from his versatility; being known in so many fields, he is not thought of pre-eminently in connection with any one of them, but he will always be remembered as an innovator in the field of Egyptology.
For a long while he regarded his master as the Saviour of Germany, as the innovator and renovator who was going to arrest the decadent current of his time and lead men to a greatness which had died with antiquity.
Nor is it really an excessive ambition, so long as these fluctuations still exist, for Paris, for example, to claim to be the sole inventor andinnovator in this sphere.
The youth seldom sees this point, and as an innovator thinks how marvellously he is in the right and how strange is the blindness of others.
By these means, and by many other experiments tending in the same direction, he took so great and sudden a step, that he is to be regarded not merely as an innovator on an old science, but rather as the creator of a new one.
To prefer, therefore, even the most successful discoverers of physical laws to this great innovator and disturber of tradition, is just as if we should prefer knowledge to freedom, and believe that science is better than liberty.
Yet I have been told that Raymond Brucker urged theinnovator to elaborate his discovery, and often reproached him with his negligence in pecuniary matters.
This was because the innovator sometimes blended with the clear hues of his art-principles certain tints of religious mysticism which had no necessary relation with the synthesis of his æsthetics.
Why should we not do for the innovator in the arts what the country daily does for mechanical inventors and soldiers?
He was an innovator in modern political thought, and his application of the historical method to the study of institutions is in its way a not less epoch-making achievement than Bacon's application of the inductive method to science.
He was an innovator in nearly everything he did; he thought for himself; he wrote for himself, and in his own way.
Thus the innovator has only contingently put aside the old belief because it clashes with something he believes in a more vital way; and he has done this with circumspection, whereas his opponent too often repels him without a second thought.
Among them, about 1546, occurred the first expression of Polish Unitarianism, the innovator being Adam Pastoris, a Dutch or Belgian priest, who seems to have used at times the name of Spiritus.
We have hitherto supposed that the innovator is endeavouring to introduce a new rule of conduct, not for himself only, but for others also, as more conducive to the general happiness than the rule recognised by Common Sense.
Especially as all the objections to innovation, noticed in the previous section, apply with increased force if the innovator does not even claim to be introducing a new and better general rule.
It often seems that by attempting change prematurely an innovator may incur the severest form of the moral penalty, whereas if he had waited a few years he would have been let off with the mildest.
Kartini was an innovator who sought to break new paths for her people, but in reaching out for the new and untried she gained rather than lost in respect for the old fashioned virtues of her kind.
Giotto was the first and greatestinnovator in painting--the father of real painting; Masaccio was the second.
The innovator is as much the son of his generation as the conservative.
If the innovator should decline to practise silence or reserve, why should the possessor of power be less uncompromising, and why should he not impose silence by force?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "innovator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
