How To Use Ingenuity In A Sentence

Wendy couldn't help but admire the pluck and ingenuity these youngsters showed.
His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
The differences may be in features, price, functionality, or anything else human ingenuity can devise. The goal in economic terms is to make a set of similar goods less substitutable for each other.
The actors were merely furnished with a "plat," or plot of the performance, and were required to fill in and complete the outline, as their own ingenuity might suggest. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
But the aerial aspects of other segments were managed with great ingenuity. The Times Literary Supplement

And then, of course, there was the skill, the accumulated knowledge and ingenuity, behind dyeworks and glassworks, not to mention ships less frail than they looked, since in the future they would ply as far as Britain .... Time Patrolman
The artisans of Nice are very lazy, very needy, very aukward, and void of all ingenuity. Travels through France and Italy
The problem in banking is that ingenuity is invested in schemes to circumvent regulation. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, Donne's tricky and ingenious and he's enjoying his ingenuity.
a plot of great ingenuity
Here ingenuity led to more advanced ways of growing food, by covering rafts of branches and roots with earth to create chinampas or floating gardens.
I guess that sort of clean-slate ingenuity is something else America has claimed for itself as time goes on; no wonder Pyotr Ilyich is a perennial honored guest. Archive 2009-07-01
Rather, the curators have used their resources with ingenuity to make us look at Dutch painting in a very different way.
All the conveniences that modern ingenuity has excogitated -- in accordance with the requirements of the present era -- have been introduced into this huge structure. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
The costume concept for the entire program consisted of leotards and unitards, unadorned and brightly colored or adorned in various ways that spelled economy but not always high ingenuity.
Or rule on whether asset sales, user fees, mandates and flashes of congressional ingenuity yet undreamed of violate the Constitution?
No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense of his original. Early Theories of Translation
By bolstering Clampett's vision with a kind of premade Surrealism imported from Dali, Freleng dilutes the ingenuity and visual brilliance of the original short, reducing it to a clever referential game rather than a truly original work invented out of whole cloth. 12/17: Porky In Wackyland; Dough For the Do-Do; Quai des orfèvres
Although this converted 1985 Chevy pickup is not a stylish hot rod, this solar powered truck has been highly awarded for its performance and ingenuity.
It didn't take much ingenuity to transform the door into a table.
Doubtful it may be, whether it should be called dimness of understanding, or rather perverse ingenuity, that men reason thus, when the facts are: So general is the disposition to abuse power, that wherever it is accumulated, it will surely be abused; accordingly it must be distributed as equally as possible. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
The film's landscape of urban desolation must have taken some ingenuity to achieve.
It takes considerable effort and ingenuity to secure headlines these days because we have all become adrenalin junkies. Times, Sunday Times
“The crucial test for the solution of all these intricate problems which confront and challenge our ingenuity is the sheer and forceful application of those immutable laws which down the corridor of time have always guided the hand of man, groping as it were for some faint beacon of light for his hopes and aspirations.” McCain and Obama Court Hispanic Voters - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
This Toronto trio has left their mark on the scene with a unique style of improvised progressive breakbeat house, a sound driven by artistic ingenuity but upheld by talented instrumentation.
His intelligence and ingenuity have enabled him to become the number one predator.
Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
His play has been an infelicitous concoction of ingenuity and inaccuracy, the latter being generally fatal at this elite level. Times, Sunday Times
But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
That meant they couldn't be bludgeoned into staying ‘on message’ but could be encouraged to use their ingenuity and enthusiasm to devise ways of supporting the general thrust of the campaign.
There are plenty of visual stunts, but this is always more than an arty display of technical ingenuity.
I marvel at the almost boundless ingenuity and skill of mankind sometimes.
She lives in Northern New Mexico in her humble off-grid old adobe abode, rebuilt with her own hands, strength and ingenuity.
In his strictly secular pieces Calderon has succeeded rather by virtue of his lyrism, which is undoubtedly of transcedent quality, than because of any considerable dramatic ingenuity of his own. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The ocean also has its secrets which it is rapidly giving up, mind you, thanks to the ingenuity of the human race.
Smaller players can succeed through their guile and ingenuity.
It's a thriller about courage and ingenuity during the escape, and deprivations Vili survived before being saved by a farming family across the Austrian border.
With Sir Alan Rudge, the chair of the Royal Commission, he will set a recess 'homework' project for the other 610 MPs, asking them to "go on the hunt for tales of manufacturing ingenuity and innovation. Vince Cable launches 'Made by Britain' project to highlight manufacturing
I deny, here and now, every argument of human ingenuity that has been advanced, or ever will be advanced, against the Dogma of Faith that Christ has constituted the Catholic Church indefectible, by His Own Virtue. Modern world: a desert of God
There takes place in the keddah, or pen of capture, a mighty struggle between the giant strength of the captive and the ingenuity of man, ably seconded by a few powerful tame elephants. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
The ingenuity with which this great organ raises the cloyless topic every silly season under another name, is beyond all praise. Without Prejudice
the infinite ingenuity of man
And yet even with nothing but a future looming with gloomy forebodings, they repopulated the barren wasteland of space, bracing for the worst, testing the extents of their tenacity and ingenuity.
They have to use all their ingenuity to outwit the vision of this information, which polices them, relating exclusively to that which has already been filed away or schematised in the objective memory.
For all its bursts of ingenuity, this show has worn thin long before its closing number. Times, Sunday Times
His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
Turning physical activities into games, especially the ones the child benefits from, requires ingenuity.
In this place, the ingenuity of the contriver and disposer of the walks had exerted itself to make the most of little space, and by screens, both of stone ornamented with rude sculpture, and hedges of living green, had endeavoured to give as much intricacy and variety as the confined limits of the garden would admit. The Abbot
It frowns on anything that could have cost silly amounts without allowing for personal ingenuity and cunning. Times, Sunday Times
His ingenuity with words stamped his as an outstanding politician.
Could someone have leaked the mushroom souplike-substance as a test of their resolve and ingenuity? The Sun
They must use all their ingenuity to complete their hazardous work and survive.
He is a democrat with the skill, nerve, and ingenuity to push the limits of the possible.
The book, emphasising dinner table etiquette and rustic ingenuity remains a best-seller.
Here was a gloating scheme of ingenuity, an immigrant strategy for economic survival that was taking on great possibilities.
It is hard not to have a grudging admiration for the ingenuity behind these schemes.
We have to admire his ingenuity in redesigning the machinery.
The elements of heaven and earth are elegantly manifested by the artists' ingenuity.
The designers wanted to show off their ingenuity and flair. Times, Sunday Times
The ingenuity and satisfactoriness of the method must be admitted by all who give it a trial, and it is interesting to conjecture how it may have arisen. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
He spoofs himself into an exuberant documentary that demonstrates the all-pervasive influence of modern advertising by satiric example, and with great ingenuity—talking, for example, about product placement while he's placed in such products as a JetBlue terminal where he slugs down a bottle of POM Wonderful. 'Incendies' Burns With Mystery, Truth
If I possessed this gentleman's ingenuity I might have whipped up a quick little prank like this in order to go viral on YouTube, however I just sat in the chair staring at the water waiting for a kind of pulsation like Jeff Goldblum in "Jurassic Park. The Water Ceiling Prank: Simple Yet Hilarious (VIDEO)
It is a story of logistics, ingenuity and courage on an epic scale. Times, Sunday Times
They remind one of those by Hine, Newman, and the rest, in the old "blackie" days, and are often little masterpieces of comic ingenuity -- as may be seen in "Shooting over an Extensive Moor," where a man is discharging his weapon over the portly figure of a Moorish gentleman. The History of "Punch"
Pairing pork chops with other ingredients requires a little ingenuity, as well.
It is certainly making huge progress, driven by the inexorable increase in computing power as much as our programming ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
Men showed vast ingenuity in works of engineering and scholarship.
Spawr indeed personified American ingenuity, self - reliance, initiative and entrepreneurship.
We will multiply and prosper such that our empire is infinite and our ingenuity boundless.
A homemade quilt is more than a covering to keep people warm; it is a form of folk art - part of our heritage recalling the ingenuity and creativity of our pioneers.
The North Pole, he said, was not so very far away, and the difficulties in the way of reaching it were not, on the face of them, so very great: human ingenuity had achieved a thousand things a thousand times more difficult; yet in spite of over half-a-dozen well-planned efforts in the nineteenth century, and thirty-one in the twentieth, man had never reached: always he had been baulked, baulked, by some seeming chance -- some restraining Hand: and herein lay the lesson -- _herein the warning_. The Purple Cloud
When you have two sheets and a pillowcase for the job, none of which may be cut, your ingenuity has to work hard and fast. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
It is certainly possible for an anxious straining ingenuity to _imagine_ such cases; and where is the rule of law, which, in the infirmity of human institutions, cannot be shown capable of occasioning _possible_ mischief and injustice? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
Show ingenuity and enterprise in your work. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Bizarreness after bizarreness harries the hardy band of travellers, all of them rendered with Miéville's impressive ingenuity and inventiveness. Iron Council Linkdump
Meanwhile, the troika—the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission—trots from country to country, marveling at the accounting ingenuity of the countries that have been bailed out, tut-tutting at the failure of each to meet its targets, and recommending a heavier dose of the medicine that is enfeebling the patient. Southern Europe Could Learn From Ireland
His first column was a paean to the ingenuity, resolve, and bravery represented by the massive Berlin airlift.
The evening primrose, with outstretched filaments, hangs a golden necklace about the welcome murmuring noctuid, while the various orchids excel in the ingenuity of their salutations. My Studio Neighbors
Though London was, apparently, unaware of either the technical or psychological area in which he was working, his fascination for the device gives another dimension to the studies of his naturalistic literature. 1 Finally, to note the ways in which London's artistry is at work at this point in his career, there is considerable ingenuity in the somewhat original fashion in which London parallels the “retrogression” of Buck to the “progression” of Fang. Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
Getting out of this mess was going to require a fair degree of ingenuity.
Were an alleged lunatic standing as a defendant in a criminal suit to use one-tenth of the amount of ingenuity and conscious direction of his symptoms that the average paranoiac uses, he would furnish the champions of the idea of malingering of mental disease with enough material to convict a dozen lunatics. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
Her ingenuity, her creativity in approving reimbursements is the bondage. .er, envy of the free market. Think Progress » Army Secretary says Gates has placed a de facto moratorium on DADT discharges.
Creativity and ingenuity are widely distributed and evident in the natural activities of children outside school.
Then came forward the Persian sage and, prostrating himself before the King, presented him with a horse5 of the blackest ebony-wood inlaid with gold and jewels, and ready harnessed with saddle, bridle and stirrups such as befit Kings; which when Sabur saw, he marvelled with exceeding marvel and was confounded at the beauty of its form and the ingenuity of its fashion. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We felt her work conveyed freshness and ingenuity, and the works she's created for the show celebrate all that we love about New York.
The whole operation was an astounding mixture of courage and ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
Twenty years ago De Morgan wrote that 'the founder of the zetetic astronomy gained great praise from provincial newspapers for his ingenuity in proving that the earth is a flat, surrounded by ice,' with the north polar ice in the middle. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
Despite all this ingenuity, the Malibu has been built with a bad case of the rolling uglies.
All you can do is pour astronomical amounts of money, time and ingenuity into the heather and pray. Times, Sunday Times
Great ingenuity was expended in creative accounting to get round overall spending limits or capital allocations.
That kind of ingenuity made Britain great and will keep on making it better. The Sun
Calm objectivity combined with idealistic vision results in a genuine interest for scientific ingenuity and a natural instinct for fair-mindedness.
William Thomson had at once accepted these views, and with the conceptive ingenuity peculiar to himself, had gone far beyond him, in showing before the Parliamentary Electric Light Committee of 1879, that through a copper wire of only ½ in. diameter, 21,000 horse power might be conveyed to a distance of 300 miles with a current of an intensity of 80,000 volts. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
Creativity, ingenuity and flair are the songwriter's real talents.
Inspecting the nest may require some ingenuity.
Getting out of this mess was going to require a fair degree of ingenuity.
In fact they are many of you, your children, your grandchildren and the legacy we bequeath must not be defeat and denial but glory and the celebration of their genius and ingenuity. Rick Tumlinson: Apollo's Children and the NewSpace Revolution
Around the same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card numbers.
It is a riveting human drama, an astonishing tale of resilience and technological ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
It takes considerable effort and ingenuity to secure headlines these days because we have all become adrenalin junkies. Times, Sunday Times
The only difference seems to be that misleading requires more ingenuity. The Times Literary Supplement
That took gumption, not to mention good ole-fashioned American Ingenuity.
In every way - performance, build quality, ingenuity of design - it is the better car.
If only they didn't feel as if their heft and institutional weight conferred credibility or ingenuity, because it doesn't.
There are few subjects on which human ingenuity has been more generally exerted, and as few, in which it has more generally failed: whether this has proceeded from the want of invention or the irremediableness of the subject, I shall proceed in the duty assigned me, stimulated by the maxim "Ex cohesione scintillum ex citat. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I
His statement betrays complacency to the point of disingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
The primary and most elementary subdivisions of time are day and night, and it demanded no great stretch of human ingenuity to divide the day into two sections, called forenoon and afternoon, or into twelve sections, called hours. Willis the Pilot
Working in pairs, the children were challenged to use their imagination, creativity and ingenuity to design and make a model using a specially created K'Nex kit.
Simply getting around the island often requires great ingenuity or favours from friends. Times, Sunday Times
At first this patchwork appeared too disjointed, yet Brand soon showed ingenuity in bending his themes to different purposes. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Dussel was speechless in the face of such ingenuity, and could do nothing but gaze around in surprise as he explored the rest of our lovely and ultrapractical Annex. The Diary Of A Young Girl
Dog racing is a symbol of human civilisation, the application of ingenuity and skill to the breeding and training of animals. Times, Sunday Times
“They are said to ‘receive the word with joy,’ which argues ingenuity and teachableness of spirit in them.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
To oppose it required luck and ingenuity. THE HUNTING OF MAN
It needs skill and ingenuity to bring them together and cannot be left to a dialogue of the deaf. Times, Sunday Times
I marvel at the almost boundless ingenuity and skill of mankind sometimes.
A mix of technical ingenuity, entrepreneurial enterprise, maritime supremacy and a growing empire turned the country into the first modern superpower. Times, Sunday Times
There are plenty of visual stunts, but this is always more than an arty display of technical ingenuity.
Ingenuity in section is elaborated in plan, in which each of the masses is articulated with deep re-entrants on the London Wall side.
Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of My Novel — Complete
After all, the single goal of advertising is to stimulate demand by each and every means, and the ingenuity of admen knows no bounds.
Despite the technology, you still need human talent and ingenuity to create a work of greatness.
She attained new heights of ingenuity in running its educational efforts on a shoestring, and applying its stretched resources to the backward hinterland. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
The sleuth bridges a number of formats and styles while always emphasising ingenuity, deduction and a dilettante's approach to crime-solving.
Knowing the poor Irish girl's weak side (her quick temper), Oscar had for some time taxed his ingenuity to torment her, for the sake of hearing her "sputter," as he termed it. Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way
He wants the reader to involve him/herself in the "intricacy" of design, to find in the tracing out of the incremental, spiralling pattern a source of interest at least as compelling as character identification, if not more so, since Powers's novels make it clear that the writer's job is not merely to tell stories and evoke characters, but to use such things as story and character to make something fresh from the form, to find the means to unite story, character, and theme with form in a way that is mutually reinforcing: character is tied to the evolving revelations of form, formal ingenuity itself embodies and discloses theme. Elsewhere
Only with human ingenuity, inspiration and ability can we sample what our neighbouring world has to offer.
Turn, then, thy sharp, wire-drawing, lawyer-like ingenuity to the same task — make up my history as though thou wert shaping the blundering allegations of some blue-bonneted, hard-headed client, into a condescendence of facts and circumstances, and thou shalt be, not my Apollo — QUID TIBI CUM Redgauntlet
It frowns on anything that could have cost silly amounts without allowing for personal ingenuity and cunning. Times, Sunday Times
Up to five GIAs will be awarded in amounts ranging from $500 to $2,500 each to selected applicantswho are eager to share their skills with marginalized youthin developing countries in ways that educate and inspire youth to harness their own ingenuity. Boing Boing
The campaign against apprenticeship in 1837-8 required no great dialectical ingenuity or intellectual departures by the abolitionists.
Its combination of superlative pilot and navigational skills and scientific ingenuity have earned it an indelible place in the annals of the RAF. Times, Sunday Times
Every year at budget time, ingenuity is expended on how to gouge more millions out of (present and future) university students.
Considerable ingenuity is needed to minimize costs.
Campaigners against changes in their own areas exercise considerable ingenuity in discovering reasons why the rest of us should also object. Times, Sunday Times
Bragan's managerial ingenuity in confronting umpires was almost unlimited, both in the major leagues and the minors.
Human ingenuity is not infinite; we just do not know its bounds. Learning from Lomborg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A gentleman who is an acknowledged authority on illustration, in lecturing to a class of art students on the pros and cons of working for reproduction, said that to be a successful illustrator one must have, among other qualities, "ingenuity and invention. Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
The company's out-front ingenuity offers us a lens through which to measure the attempts of other PC makers and mobile technology companies to offer products to meet the apparent demand that was not likely limited to the holiday season. In 2011, All Eyes Are on the Tablet
Two professed Lives of Mahomet have been composed by Dr. Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, seventh edition, London, 1718, in octavo) and the count de Boulainvilliers, (Vie de Mahomed, Londres, 1730, in octavo:) but the adverse wish of finding an impostor or a hero, has too often corrupted the learning of the doctor and the ingenuity of the count. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Thus hepatoscopy, demanding long training and influencing political action (and, doubtless, calling for ingenuity and tact in interpretations), assumed great importance in Babylonia and Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear. The House of Mirth
Canadians marvelled at the animals' ingenuity to navigate and survive in the urban terrain.
I don't know if human ingenuity is infinite or not. Learning from Lomborg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But the danger, in fastening on Ayckbourn's ingenuity, is that we overlook what he is saying.
Tim is also a believer in American ingenuity and knows that products like Patch will help deliver a commercially viable way for communities to support the important work of local journalists, institutions, governments, and businesses. AOL Gets Local With Patch and Going
Today the towns are largely deserted except for a few thousand men who have defended them with ingenuity and courage. Times, Sunday Times
Inspecting the nest may require some ingenuity.
Using some ingenuity, it was possible to fry an egg and grill some bacon using a bedside lamp. Times, Sunday Times
But rather than modify those claims, he devotes a great deal of hermeneutic ingenuity to disguising their shortcomings, at times actively reconfiguring his sources to suit the case he defends.
Originality and ingenuity are the aims of a competition launched at a Trowbridge school on Friday.
California, a multicultural society living in abundant sunshine and natural beauty, a paradise somehow wanting to be improved by Yankee ingenuity and the American work ethic. Richard Henry Dana
With ingenuity and nuance, he compartmentalizes the cluelessness of the men; they had a job but the particulars were need-to-know. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
I'm told that earthen fridges have been developed, using the millennia old ingenuity of the earthern pot'scooling process. Living without a refrigerator!
He was probably scarred for life, but his parents must have been delighted at their ingenuity.
Some of the older paintwork you now see in Italian hotels will be the indirect result of Levi's ingenuity and care.
When in fresh company, I would embark on little wanton problems of conduct, observing the impact of this or that approach on my hearers, treating fellow-men as so many targets for intellectual ingenuity: until I could hardly tell my own self where the leg-pulling began or ended. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
But then, human determination, imagination and ingenuity, when put to the service of justice, have had an uncanny and unpredictable way of playing havoc with the plans of dominators.
This boat-shaped hat expresses tribal ingenuity.
Showing ingenuity, some who are without partners seem happy to make do with wooden chairs. Times, Sunday Times
Positive thinking creates ingenuity and originality. Negative thinking cripples imagination and creativity. Dr T.P.Chia
Interest in planetaria is, I should say, an acquired taste; but there can be no doubt as to the industry and ingenuity of this inventor. A Wanderer in Holland
It is the theme that lends strength to the sheer ingenuity of SF, sinews to mere fancy.
While that sort of disingenuity is unpleasant, its impact was far more than rhetorical.
His recent stumbles in media-management may be honest mistakes, but they too play to the meme of disingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
Native resources of scientific talent and ingenuity have not run dry.
The proper interpretation of refraction data may require a higher degree of skill and ingenuity.
This difficulty M. Gramme overcame with characteristic ingenuity by adding to the ordinary system a "distributer" capable of delivering plus and minus currents alternately, thus equalizing the consumption, besides being able to supply a large number of candles on the multiple circuit system, each circuit supporting four or five lamps. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
THE number of sins a person may commit is well-nigh incalculable, which is only one way of saying that the malice of man has invented innumerable means of offending the Almighty -- a compliment to our ingenuity and the refinement of our natural perversity. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
The Relation's ingenuity in contriving to give away whatever plums were given to her was quite amazing, and she generally managed to Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books
The Germans showed particular ingenuity in constructing deep dugouts, like the large stollen used to shelter the troops waiting to assault Verdun in early 1916.
Tourists would marvel at the elegant ingenuity of a bygone age.
Opponents have shown their ingenuity by buying up a field on the site of the proposed runway and dividing it into more than 20,000 lots. Times, Sunday Times
Of course he was also a polypharmacist, and the complexity, ingenuity, and comprehensiveness of his prescriptions would put to shame even the "accomplished therapeutist" of these modern days. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
Although this converted 1985 Chevy pickup is not a stylish hot rod, this solar powered truck has been highly awarded for its performance and ingenuity.
Most of it is a defence of Sappho's chastity, which some German had denied, and I can assure you the passion with which these two gentlemen argued, the learning they displayed, the prodigious ingenuity with which they disputed the use of some implement which looked to me for all the world like a hairpin astounded me; especially when the door opened and Professor Hobkin himself appeared. Monday or Tuesday
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams
For example, being left on his rough bench with an old dandy-brush to guard, Jan was approached in turn by half a dozen of Dick's comrades, who exhausted their ingenuity in trying to entice, frighten, or persuade him from his post. Jan A Dog and a Romance
Getting out of this mess was going to require a fair degree of ingenuity.
There is no end to the imagination and ingenuity of the do-it-yourselfer. Times, Sunday Times
A triumph of engineering ingenuity, the Millennium Dome is the largest setpiece project of the UK's millennial programme.
But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
I guess you’re right that no amount of ingenuity in regulation is ever going to lead to the best possible outcomes in an economic system that elevates selfishness over all other motivations. — sam Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
We will multiply and prosper such that our empire is infinite and our ingenuity boundless.
By the very nature of them it is clear you are a man of some intelligence and some ingenuity.
It shows we are a proud nation, independent and flourishing through our own ingenuity and skills. The Sun
The premise of the film sounds like that of a particularly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure story -- an American Average Joe is trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert with nothing but a cell phone, a Zippo, and his cajones -- but with killer timing, buckets of low-fi ingenuity, and a stunning one-man show from Reynolds, Cortés is able to craft a riveting bonafide action movie. Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #2: Good Movies, Stupid Plots
It is certainly making huge progress, driven by the inexorable increase in computing power as much as our programming ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
Smaller boats are masterpieces of ingenuity, with folding tables and settees which convert into beds.
I now leave you with a recipe for this dish, which through hard work and culinary ingenuity catapults a cut of gristled beef from its rough-hewn, lowly beginnings to delectable and iconic heights. Archive 2007-03-01
Apollo 13 was delivered safely back to Earth thanks to amazing human ingenuity.
All you can do is pour astronomical amounts of money, time and ingenuity into the heather and pray. Times, Sunday Times
Such ingenuity and self-confidence should be applauded at a time when Hollywood churns out bland twentysomething pap at vast cost.
He is a democrat with the skill, nerve, and ingenuity to push the limits of the possible.
It proved a work of appealing ingenuity with many reference points to hold the listener's attention.
‘My ingenuity obtained my pardon: the lady being unable to forbear laughing throughout the whole affair, to find both so uncommonly tricked; her gaoleress her prisoner, safe locked up, and as much pleased as either of us.’ Clarissa Harlowe
It takes considerable effort and ingenuity to secure headlines these days because we have all become adrenalin junkies. Times, Sunday Times
A courtly elite had always valued, and paid highly for, the skills and ingenuity of accomplished cooks. The Times Literary Supplement
Positive thinking creates ingenuity and originality. Negative thinking cripples imagination and creativity. Dr T.P.Chia
And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.

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