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Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
In their houses, they play much at that most ingenious game which we call chess, or else at draughts. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
The tips on rounding hours to the next quarter-hour or tenth-hour and dropping your own VBA procedure into a formula were most ingenious.
It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships.
The airy Atrium café is an ingenious use of ‘yard space’ and has become a fulcrum around which the centre rotates, serving affordable gourmet food cooked on the premises, prepared by top chefs.

Forsooth, I knew not you had so much of ingenious art; algates, the toy is somewhat ghastly. The Last of the Barons — Volume 06
He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
But there are other septaria of iron-stone which seem to have had a very different origin, their cavities having been formed in cooling or congealing from an ignited state, as is ingeniously deduced by Dr. Hutton from their internal structure. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
My sister and I could barely contain ourselves, we thought it was so funny and ingenious.
I was pleasantly surprised to find my ingenious, distant relative had a setup I had never imagined.
The Robin peered in with his sharp little eye, and really admired the Tortoise's ingenious labour very much. Parables From Nature
Yes, Donne's tricky and ingenious and he's enjoying his ingenuity.
He was put on a little silver tray, and an ingeniously wrought siphon showered him with pure water, which the faqir had no doubt drawn from some sacred well or spring. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
In using this ingenious wire stretcher, he stapled his wire to post number one, carried the length past post number two, looped the chain around post number three, having the chain long enough so that he might tauten the wire and hold the crankhandle steady with his knee or left arm while he drove the holding staple in post number two. Hiram the Young Farmer
It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
And we are finding more and more ingenious ways of using up the stuff. Anti-Ice
But do people go to a Step Up film for ingenious plot twists and snappy dialogue? The Sun
It's showbizzy, ingenious, affectionate but irreverent. Times, Sunday Times
Ingenious said: 'These film sale and leaseback partnerships have undertaken commercial film investment. Times, Sunday Times
The Frue vanner is an endless indiarubber band drawn over an inclined table, to which a revolving and side motion is given by ingenious automatic mechanism, the pulp being automatically fed from the upper end, and the concentrates collected in a trough containing water in which the band is immersed in its passage under the table; the lighter particles wash over the lower end. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
The engine was started and run solely on gasifier-produced gas and employed another ingenious hybrid device as a speed regulator.
A headmaster in Minnesota showed an ingenious range of other experiments that can be done in sub-zero weather. Times, Sunday Times
With the family space more precious than ever, Beth began a decade-long design process that melds a simple, well-composed look with ingenious storage and space-saving ideas.
By the ingenious means of using antimagnetic missiles Rhodan succeeded in breaking down the protective body screens of the Antis and invading their fortress. False Front
Beneath the cartoon graphics lurks a series of puzzles so fiendish and ingenious that only a twisted mastermind could think of them. Times, Sunday Times
His ingeniously plotted stories, some of which drew on themes from English and Scandinavian folklore, typically portrayed safe and ordered worlds invaded by terrifying agents of unappeasable supernatural malice.
Some while later he contemptuously clomb the knoll anew and preached in a voice filled with fulmination: "God consists of three potatoes and seven turnips which have been combined in an ingenious manner. Archive 2009-08-01
These days politicians of every hue attempt to prove themselves tougher on crime than their opponents, thinking up ever more ingenious means of incarcerating an even greater part of the population.
This ingenious magnetic toilet descaler prevents minerals, germs and fungus from causing stains, rings and limescale build up in your toilet.
He has an ingenious technique for dealing with problems of that sort.
Although I think that carbon fiber autoclaved dry layup (current carbon fiber helmets are wet layup heavy same as advanced fiberglass) would be an ingenious (and expensive) solution to a non existent problem lighter weight more aero helmets are always welcome. Arai Corsair V RC: F1 tech for motorcycles - Hell For Leather
Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. The Waverley
The umbrella was ingeniously devised to fold up into your pocket.
the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work
We evolved from apes and are still apes, less hairy maybe (unless you originated from the mediteranean where your beard grows up to your eyes and your eyebrows up to your hairline and even the women sport a thin moustache) and more ingenious, but apes nonetheless. God’s work? « BuzzMachine
Various ingenious methods have been devised for stirring large quantities in more than one container simultaneously. Secrets of the Soil
Here's a truly ingenious bit of kitchen kit. Times, Sunday Times
The theme music is overused, but it is expressive, and the scene where the theme segues into and out of ‘Moonglow’ is ingenious.
The pieces allow state of the art cookers, fridges, ovens, microwaves and dishwashers to be concealed behind beautiful facades and ingenious storage devices.
N. SWIN.EN. "an ingenious gardener and seedsman at Brentford-End," wrote The Beauties of Flora Displayed; 8vo. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
Similarly it may be said — not as an ingenious speculation, but as a stedfast and absolute fact — that human calculation cannot limit the influence of one atom of wholesome knowledge patiently acquired, modestly possessed, and faithfully used. Speeches: Literary and Social
Aside from ‘The District School’ and the ingenious ‘Supplication to the People of the United States,’ which makes a supplementary chapter in the present volume, the author's works in this twelvemo are mild, contemplative essays of no particular value.
In ingenious experiments, monkeys with damage to the visual cortex showed blindsight.
Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones.
Not for the easily shocked, his four-letter tirades - which prompted one walk-out - were interspersed by a spate of ingenious gags.
The artistry of the conman is given an enticing makeover by Sir Ridley Scott in Matchstick Men, an ingenious little crime caper which functions on many levels.
The one occupied by the NCOs is a perfect example of artistic skill in woodwork, looking like any pleasant living-room during day-time but being transformed into a tidy bedroom in a few minutes by lowering ingenious folding-beds from the wall. Work Camp 11033 GW
My neighbour ingeniously cobbled together a plant doing the same job for around $10,000, one eighteenth of that.
Practically invisible or blatantly obvious, these so-called slipups made centuries ago survive today beneath vitrified coats of clear overglaze and provide snapshots of the innovative and ingenious decorative techniques employed.
Scribe’s plays may be said to be so many ingenious examples how to break one commandment, the drame is a grand and general chaos of them all; nay, several crimes are added, not prohibited in the Decalogue, which was written before dramas were. The Paris Sketch Book
Before the invention of refrigerators, ingenious ways were found to keep food cold.
They often come up with incredibly ingenious ideas and are always happy to engage in mental gymnastics.
Another ingenious invention was a system to prevent early starts in the foot races.
The paperclip - an ingenious, simple piece of design. Times, Sunday Times
The pair come up with many ingenious ideas to get close. The Sun
Johnny is so ingenious - he can make the most remarkable sculptures from the most ordinary materials.
Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. The Waverley
He was a notorious parasite and schnorrer, but few of his hosts were overtly unwelcoming, since he could be ingeniously vindictive in print, even when seeming to offer praise.
Lemony Snicket: These tales of the Baudelaire orphans outwitting multiple death threats and a gaggle of guileful guardians, with meta-commentary by an unnamed author are ... well they're definitely not intended as an ingenious snare for the use of pedophiles, I'll tell you that. Jilly Gagnon: The Moral of the Story Is...
Leeuwenhoek tried ingenious ways to estimate the size of his animalcules.
a Hampshire farmer had fowls of different breeds, including Dorkings, and he discriminated ingeniously between the `dark ones' and the `white ones'
He measured the room using an ingenious new electronic device.
I reckon anyone who can hide in a drawer without the aid of an accomplice is so ingenious they deserve not to be caught. Shannon Matthews « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Chariot's sidecar for bikes is ingenious, not only to its approach to mounting a sidecar to a bike, but also in its approach to the baby-transport problem in the first place.
A bold and ingenious treatment of the vaulting shaft of the tower groining is used on these piers; on the western ones the shafts stop upon the ends of the hood moulding. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
IV. iii.27 (` is rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike] [W: a Maurice-pike] This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unnecessarily of the _rest of a musket. _ by which he makes the hero of the speech set up the _rest_ of a _musket, _ to do exploits with a _pike. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
When you think about it, the idea to blend public transportation with artwork is actually quite ingenious. Smithsonian Mag
The perversion of the movie is ingenious, and yet so simple.
The history of physics is one of increasingly subtle and refined measurement made by increasingly ingenious and indirect means. Times, Sunday Times
This ingenious product has been analysed by officials and it contains such substances as beef tallow, vegetable materials and synthetic laboratory-sourced ingredients, but no trace of a cow in the chain.
In an ingenious and thought-provoking paper some time ago, Jerrold Levinson put forward a novel and imaginative thesis purporting to explain why tropism never quite got off the ground, despite its respectable bimillennial launch history (1980). Tropes
An English geologist has come up with one of the most ingenious ideas yet suggested.
The company has a reputation for inventive adaptations, ingenious design and musical innovation.
The lyrics, prototypically sung in that much imitated adenoidal whine we have all known and loved all these many years later, were ingeniously universal while being blatantly personal, a great trick. Binky Philips: I Get Bounced From the Buzzcocks
SENSE, but precisely at this point Schopenhauer himself was poor, irreceptive, and un-German to the extent of ingeniousness.) Beyond Good and Evil
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
It was ingenious and might have seemed eccentric, but it was magical. Times, Sunday Times
He was to take the timber at a valuation, and it is a sufficient proof of his ignorance of these matters, that he really did not know the difference between a hazel bush and an oak tree; for, although he was a very clever and an ingenious man in his way, yet he actually applied to me, to know how they would measure such _small timber_ as that which he pointed out to me, which was nothing more than a _hazel bush! Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
Nevertheless, in some of the ‘Gloria’ sections of his canticles Purcell indulges in ingenious canonic writing, inspired it seems by earlier examples by Child and Blow.
From the recent discoveries of many ingenious philosophers it appears, that during respiration the blood imbibes the vital part of the air, called oxygene, through the membranes of the lungs; and that hence respiration may be aptly compared to a slow combustion. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Only in Goldilocks universes like ours where things have fallen out just right, purely by accident, will sentient beings arise to be amazed at how ingeniously bio-friendly their universe is.
If Monsieur Scribe's plays may be said to be so many ingenious examples how to break one commandment, the drame is a grand and general chaos of them all; nay, several crimes are added, not prohibited in the Decalogue, which was written before dramas were. The Paris Sketch Book
Inspired by ideas that Fénelon would soon espouse in his treatise "De l'éducation des filles" (1687), Mme de Maintenon showed ingenious insight in developing a forward-looking and lasting pedagogical model. Louis XIV's Secret Wife
Just like his movie alter ego, the actual MI6 agent invented ingenious devices to defeat the enemy. The Sun
The "knowns" -- the gifted Galt MacDermott, the ingenious British designer John Bury, the not yet knighted Peter Hall, couldn't have had better pedigrees for approaching a piece of such ambition: there was a space ship that sailed over the orchestra; trampolines cratered into the stage to bounce us like 'low gravity' might, and a massive rocket tail would blast us all off at the show's end in quadraphonic sound. Melanie Chartoff: Spine-tingling"Spiderman"--for All the Wrong Reasons
It had been an energetic and ingenious exercise. Times, Sunday Times
The Ligeti, done with the soloist Christian Tetzlaff, was sheer dazzlement, a brilliantly ingenious manipulation of remote sonorities.
I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS
The history of physics is one of increasingly subtle and refined measurement made by increasingly ingenious and indirect means. Times, Sunday Times
I have seen a learned work about a century old, now entirely forgotten, in which it is maintained that Virgil's fourth Eclogue is simply a genethliacon of Augustus; the arguments, which are ingenious but futile, are drawn from the poem of The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Spar have come up with ingenious pocket Eco Bag which is a small, wallet size bag that fits neatly into a pocket or handbag so you're always armed and ready to shop.
This is an ingenious and illuminating argument, but it is open to serious objection.
Yet ultimately it's too ingenious to resist for long in its sincere attempts to repurpose something both significant and outmoded. Times, Sunday Times
But what makes the ad so ingenious is the fact that is a mix of message, brand and "location. Archive 2008-05-01
Various ingenious methods have been devised for stirring large quantities in more than one container simultaneously. Secrets of the Soil
Thus the unnamed narrator of Will Wiles's ingenious first novel, holed up in an anonymous Eastern-European city and four days into a week of entropically bad luck. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
On the other hand, a lot of people were saying, well look, he's an ingenious guy.
She is forever organizing escape attempts, each one more comically ingenious than the last.
The Chinese, however, have invented an ingenious kind of pathway called a "terraced" or "flying" road. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
An ingenious murderess decides to soak the blotter on her husband’s desk in hemlock, so he will be gradually poisoned as the hemlock leaches out and into his hands whenever he works late into the night. hemlock/Shakespeare What’s My Name Again?
An ingenious person should multiply the kinds of congress after the fashion of the different kinds of beasts and of birds.
While these wild but ingenious speculators conducted the career of that philosophy called the Ionian, to the later time of the serene and lofty spiritualism of Anaxagoras, two new schools arose, both founded by Ionians, but distinguished by separate names -- the Eleatic and the Italic. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
Through processes called transcription and translation, ingenious devices take the DNA blueprint and manufacture the protein. Christianity Today
Restless inventive energy underlies design of his extraordinary sculptural clothes (requiring the most ingenious cutting) for his own fashion house and for Givenchy, where he is chief designer.
Or have you gone through that most ingenious contexture of truth and lies, of serious and extravagant, of knights-errant, magicians, and all that various matter which he announces in the beginning of his poem: Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
_Antiquary_, the ingenious and abstruse Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck, and the old beadsman Edie Ochiltree, and that preternatural figure of old Edith The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
Whereat I stood musing and commending to my selfe the ingenious and apt inuention of the Arthist, in the vse of such a stone, which of his owne nature to contrarie proportions affoorded contrarie coulers, and in such sort as by the raysing vp of hir small plummage aboue hir seare, hir beack halfe open, and hir toung appearing in the middest thereof, as if she had beene resolutely intended, and eagerly bent to haue gorged hir selfe vpon it. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Ingenious plots hovered on the frontier of science fiction with a touch of ghost story. Times, Sunday Times
And what this ingenious man did was section the trunks of mastodonts and mammoths and read their life history.
It feels like a scale model, the work of an ingenious adolescent, rather than a fully fledged artist. Times, Sunday Times
The author makes up the shortcoming of the relator's absence with ingenious narrative tactics. And she uses Scout as narrative subject to strengthen the work's authenticity and distinctness.
It feels like a scale model, the work of an ingenious adolescent, rather than a fully fledged artist. Times, Sunday Times
This year the ingenious Councillor has thought up a cunning plan that will see the town's streets swept clean of dog dirt.
The roof has been ingeniously designed to provide solar heating.
Lodge is a critic as well as a writer, and his down-to-earth stories have a nice blend of the worldly and the ingenious. Times, Sunday Times
Stepped terraces are threaded by ingenious irrigation channels that, over the centuries, have transformed this mountain desert terrain into a breadbasket.
` People got so peery, 'complained the great man, ` that ingenious men were put to dreadful shifts.' A Book of Scoundrels
The outlaw's intelligence is often displayed in his ingenious escapes.
This elaborate and ingenious argument breaks down at a number of points.
Ingenious eruptions produce from nowhere a huge solid tree and vines dangling in a leafy canopy. Times, Sunday Times
He has an ingenious scheme to attract funding.
But humans are nothing if not ingenious and when they wanted to get pie-eyed they never really needed a tavern.
The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana, which closeth the volume of his "Opuscula Academica," to observe (we translate from memory) that, Paul Clifford — Complete
Images of the sun are thrown into the observatory by an ingenious instrument run by clockwork, and called a heliostat. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
The pieces allow state of the art cookers, fridges, ovens, microwaves and dishwashers to be concealed behind beautiful facades and ingenious storage devices.
People, children, have some ingenious ways of coping with the impossible and the unbearable.
The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that _Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana_, which closeth the volume of his Paul Clifford — Volume 02
In pursuance of this request, Nancy quickly laid the cloth; disappearing for a few minutes, she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep's heads: which gave occasion to several pleasant witticisms on the part of Mr. Sikes, founded upon the singular coincidence of "jemmies" being a cant name, common to them, and also to an ingenious implement much used in his profession. Oliver Twist
The entrance through the outer ramparts was joined to the inner gateway by an ingeniously defended approach.
You see ingenious ways to turn the wildcats at work into pussycats.
Come, now - explain your ingenious little riddle, and don't go on badgering and bullyragging people in this mysterious way.
Such is the theory originated by "ouija" itself -- ingenious enough, if not very scientific. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
But here, the storage space is maximised with a built in rail and an ingenious shoe racking system.
However, just as one side invented an ingenious new way to encipher its messages, so would its enemies discover a clever way of cracking that code.
Codes, which were adopted by the legislatures first convened under what has gone into history as the "Johnsonian" plan of reconstruction, were models of ingenious subterfuge. Bricks Without Straw
Thought is what makes us human, ingenious, creative, productive and powerful. Dr T.P.Chia
Gondry, who is no stranger to playing with time, makes superb use of non-linear storytelling as he ingeniously whips through the story's physical and temporal, back-and-forth plot.
Even the most ingenious taster can be hard pressed to find adjectives to describe the quintessential flavour of Sylvaner.
But a simple arrangement of belted wheels in place of the toothed wheels _a_ and _c_ might very readily be prepared by the ingenious amateur telescopist; and Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
You've been very ingenious in trying to get it explained to you, and you've fitted various curious facts together very well " such as finding the name Andra on the little ship, and noticing it again on the map. The Ship of Adventure
Similar incidents carrying apprehension (as Lord Macaulay would say) to the breezy interiors of a thousand shanties on the same fatal morning, the domestic circle would know no name so expressive as _hrac_ for that fatal tube through which man, ingenious in illegitimate perversion, daily compels the innocent breath to discharge a plumbeous hail of rhetoric. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
It is not about ingenious heart transplants or robotic surgery or, for now at least, genetically personalised medicine. Times, Sunday Times
An ingenious circus promoter named P.T. Barnum found a way to make people laugh and make pots of moolah from the likes of a great gallumping galoot named ‘Jumbo’.
Trans-toying is most noticeable in the supermarket aisle, where packaged goods companies have gotten ingenious in their attempts to turn what we eat into things kids can play with.
Coals of Arms, and Antiquarian Remains, copied — from \ery an - cient and authentic Draughts flill exilUng — by an ingenious Artiil owler my own infpedlion. The Monthly Review
Sea Island cotton -- distinct from inland cotton -- was grown in levied plots at the shore, flushed of salt ingeniously by diked fresh water creeks. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
Lodge is a critic as well as a writer, and his down-to-earth stories have a nice blend of the worldly and the ingenious. Times, Sunday Times
Several years ago, experimenting in this field, Edison devised and operated some ingenious pyromagnetic motors and generators, based, as the name implies, on the direct application of heat to the machines. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
Wagner's ingeniousness with plot is matched by his cleverness with the recherché literary conceits - little touches that you can't help admiring, like statues in a boxwood maze, even as you hurry past.
There are concrete beams, two kinds of truss, a suspension arch (like a miniature Sydney Harbour Bridge) and finally the elegant and ingenious Millennium Bridge: imagine a pair of wishbones joined at the tips.
How these globes are hollowed is as great a marvel as the construction of the ingenious Chinese puzzle of ball within ball. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
Frayn ingeniously links several other physics metaphors, from Scrodinger's wave equation to complementarity and the disintegration of the radioactive elements.
By means of an ingenious modification of the electrical pyrometer, named the bolometer, valuable researches in measuring solar radiations had been made by Professor Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman
It's another simple but ingenious variation on an established racing game model: impressive driving - drifts, drafting, jumps and near misses - feeds into a three-stage power bar, each segment of which allows you to set off an explosion, called a powerplay, to bring the likes of radio control towers, freeways and burnt-out cars down on your opponents. Eurogamer
The Black Codes, which were adopted by the legislatures first convened under what has gone into history as the "Johnsonian" plan of reconstruction, were models of ingenious subterfuge. Bricks without Straw A Novel
She is an ingenious poet, a brilliant performer, a funny person, and serious thinker.
Cruelly will you defend the equality of rights of the herd to use the grass under its feet and the salt in the ground, -- and your enemies will be the free individuals, the overmen, the ingenious inventors, the prophets, the saviors, the poets and artists. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
Her harshest critics consider her to be ‘one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.’
We admit it is difficult to controvert the charges which Macaulay arrays against him, for so accurate and painstaking an historian is not likely to be wrong in his facts; but we believe that they are uncandidly stated, and so ingeniously and sophistically put as to give on the whole a wrong impression of the man, -- making him out worse than he was, considering his age and circumstances. Beacon Lights of History
The engine was started and run solely on gasifier-produced gas and employed another ingenious hybrid device as a speed regulator.
The understated melody, the fluid rhythmical meter, the ingenious subtlety, together with random orchestration.
Whatever were occasionally the triumphs of this daring cateran, they were often exchanged for reverses; and his narrow escapes, rapid flights, and the ingenious stratagems with which he extricated himself from imminent danger, were no less remembered and admired than the exploits in which he had been successful. Chronicles of the Canongate
Fully updated to include terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, from cyberpunk to antanaclasis, the Second Edition is ingeniously designed to tackle the less obvious terms that students and general readers will encounter. AvaxHome RSS:
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
Between the Neanderthal's bundle of burning faggots and the blinding blue glare of the modern headlight, man has brightened the darkness in a number of ingenious ways.
You could say this ingenious potpourri of deeply flavored and al dente elements did the abalone, which can seem merely chewy and not high on the taste ladder, a major favor, by putting it in doughtier company of the same textural ilk. Bay Watch
His set was ingenious: An upstage curtain glided laterally, exposing a background that changed color and shape as dancers entered and exited in silhouette.
Ingenious use of loops helps to glue the work into a coherent whole. Times, Sunday Times
In general, he offers no support for the plausibility of his theory beyond an ingenious argument from comparative mythology.
Tim, being (I suppose) out of credit with the cordwainer, fell upon this ingenious expedient to supply the want of shoes, knowing that Mr Birkin, who loves humour, would himself relish the joke upon a little recollection. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Beneath the cartoon graphics lurks a series of puzzles so fiendish and ingenious that only a twisted mastermind could think of them. Times, Sunday Times
These are arranged in a double cruciform, four apartments radiating from each staircase, which ingeniously receives borrowed daylight from two diagonally opposite corners, the other two corners containing service lifts.
The polished sophistication of this essay on how to use compressed space is underlined by the architect's ingenious use of materials.
The paint knife is an ingenious invention that squirts paint when pressure is applied to the blade.
Hobbes has ingeniously demonstrated an obligation, grounded solely in self preservation, to submit absolute sovereign.
He had to admit it was an ingenious way to phrase the question to a young audience.
Can there be any doubt that Hou is the most ingenious master of our time?
"I cannot trust thee," cried the Assassin; for when I am gone thou wilt return to thy old courses, and, by some ingenious shift or other, contrive to free thyself from the obligation of thy oath."
Many of these draws were hard-fought attempts to win, ingeniously thwarted.
Posy wished there was some ingenious sprite hovering somewhere just waiting to sprinkle similar inspirational magic dust on her love life. TICKLED PINK
Tomás Aguilar was a classmate who devoted his free time and his talent to the invention of wonderfully ingenious contraptions of dubious practicality, like the aerostatic dart or the dynamo spinning top. Excerpt: Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The history of physics is one of increasingly subtle and refined measurement made by increasingly ingenious and indirect means. Times, Sunday Times
Beggars, panhandlers and hustlers are more persistent and ingenious here than anywhere in India.
He was the most ingenious fisherman, the most resourceful craftsman, and the most competent sailor whom I had ever met.
The purpose of this article is to attempt the difficult task of trying to describe how the Indians developed this ingenious system.
It is impossible, however, not to be amused, disgusted, and even awed by the book's ingenious observations, its satiric bite, its rich and vivid catalogue of human grotesqueries.
An ingenious story that mixes the usual dastardly deception with paranormal pranks. The Sun
But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. Waverley — Volume 1
Gondry, who is no stranger to playing with time, makes superb use of non-linear storytelling as he ingeniously whips through the story's physical and temporal, back-and-forth plot.
The city of Calio is home to all the technological advances created by Rendor, mostly in the form of airships and the smaller ingenious flying craft-- known as the dragonfly-- that patrol the skies against the mostly forgotten threat of the Skylords. Giveaway & Review: Starfinder by John Marco
Steel cables are more typically found on boats and the hanging spheres are suggestive of the ingenious way the small spaces in cabins are kitted out.
The sizzlingly-scissored collection of ingeniously-worked fur andfeather, slashed leather coats, assymetric seaming, spliced body-condresses, ostrich-feather skirts, and super-tailored peplum jackets, was polished, modern and sophisticated, and drew high praise. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The mainyard, an immense affair nearly a hundred feet long, was formed of many pieces of wood and bamboo bound together with rattans in an ingenious manner. The Malay Archipelago
The original fraud was ingeniously and fraudfully duplicated, and exhibited in New York as the "only genuine Sketches New And Old
Many suspect insider traders are using ingenious methods. Times, Sunday Times
Some suites also have secret dens, accessed by an ingenious staircase. Times, Sunday Times
An ingeniously constructed system of heavy solid-mahogany double-doors gives the forecabin complete privacy.
It is disingenious to ascribe every heat wave to global warming but explain away all extremal cold events as "just weather". Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...

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