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Example sentences for "inventiveness"

Lexicographically close words:
inventing; invention; inventione; inventions; inventive; inventor; inventoried; inventories; inventors; inventory
  1. The art of teaching grew up in the schoolroom, out of inventiveness and sympathetic concrete observation.

  2. Then their rapid and fertile inventiveness will come into play, and spin the wildest creeds from each vision living dust ever dreamed.

  3. Above all, pray allow for the Poet's inventiveness in any case, and do not suppose there is more than a thin disguise of a few Persian names and allusions.

  4. The injuries to public morals and property from such a class are important enough to call out the best thought and utmost energy and inventiveness of charitable men and women to prevent them.

  5. Newell speaks of the linguistic inventiveness of children in these terms (313.

  6. One of the most curious instances of the linguistic inventiveness of children is the case of the Boston twins (of German descent on the mother's side) born in 1860, regarding whose language a few details were given by Miss E.

  7. Inventiveness was unleashed; labor-saving devices, machinery that did the work of tens and hundreds of men provided more and more immediate satisfaction than intellectual exercise did.

  8. The majority of the new businesses on the Internet are instigated by students and supported by their inventiveness and dedication.

  9. These man-made conditions cannot and should not veil the fact that human creativity and inventiveness are prevented from unfolding, replaced by ready-made solutions, instead of being stimulated.

  10. It must be remembered that crime is ever active in seeking new outlets, always keen to adopt new methods of execution; the ingenuity of criminals is infinite, their patient inventiveness is only equalled by their reckless audacity.

  11. Bringing his inventiveness to bear, he fabricated papers appointing himself inspector-general and general administrator of the army of Catalonia; his new name and title being Charles Alexander, Count of Borromeo.

  12. It is a matter of constant amazement in studying the works of Reynolds to observe his "inexhaustible inventiveness in pose and attitude.

  13. Reynolds's inventiveness was so overtaxed by his enormous number of sitters that it is scarcely to be wondered at that it sometimes failed him.

  14. The archic man shows a very ready wit and inventiveness in the great art of "grab" in war, though as he said to his father he was "a late learner" in such matters.

  15. A real genius will not be affraid of striking out of the common paths, and, sensible that inventiveness is a merit, he will create new theatrical subjects, or produce varied combinations of old ones.

  16. It was at Stratford that Edison's inventiveness was first displayed.

  17. Challenges of this kind to inventiveness and activity are outstanding all the time.

  18. A rural hostess earns her reputation, not by a discriminating eye for butcher's-meat, but by her inventiveness in cakes and custards.

  19. The author has much of the inventiveness of the well-known French writer Jules Verne; indeed, he is in the front rank of writers of stories for boys.

  20. Unconscious inventiveness is ever at hand to help the memory.

  21. The inventiveness of the general under the most favorable conditions finds its limitations in the adaptation of methods of warfare to the new weapons and the new soldiers.

  22. In the trade of war the free inventiveness of liberal-minded generals has never worked a revolution, but the discovery of better weapons and the change in military equipment have never failed to do so.

  23. But these are vain imaginings, and to ask more of an art already raised to a plane of evasive and incommunicable inventiveness is to clamour impertinently for the impossible.

  24. There is nothing to detract from the originality and inventiveness of his work.

  25. With characteristic energy he passed the pharmaceutical examination at the age of forty-one; already he had shown originality and inventiveness by making several discoveries in colours and in dyeing.

  26. The great and wonderful inventiveness and rich variety of this table ware in its thousand forms are therefore the consummation of the incessant search for truth and symmetry and beauty which characterized the early Renaissance period.

  27. Such an atmosphere frees in the man the instincts of ambition and construction and thus promotes interest, inventiveness and constructive criticism and suggestion.

  28. One way is often as good as another, and improvements come out of the interested inventiveness of the worker.

  29. Robinson Crusoe was held to exhibit a limited power of imagination in comparison with the ingenuity and inventiveness of Tom Sawyer.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inventiveness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    art; artfulness; artifice; authenticity; cleverness; craft; creativity; enterprise; fancy; fantasy; fertility; finesse; genius; guile; imagination; ingenuity; innovation; invention; inventiveness; newness; novelty; originality; productivity; readiness; resource; sharpness; shrewdness; sophistry; stealth; subtlety; wile; wit