How To Use Inventive In A Sentence

I admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.
The drug smugglers used an assortment of inventive packaging to hide their illegal shipments.
So in the end they could only scrape through 1-0 with a goal by the ever inventive and adroit Dutchman, Dennis Bergkamp.
Prosecutors and judges will have no difficulty in differentiating between cases, however inventive are those determined to break a democratically enacted law.
France play with more flair and inventiveness, whereas England are a more disciplined side.

He was of a mild and cheerful temper, generous to the extent of his means, and of an inventive genius; and his conduct after marriage was irreproachable.
Fresh ideas, inventive combinations and a lively ambience inform this modern Scottish restaurant famed for giving traditional dishes a vibrant international infusion.
The atmosphere is decidedly creepy as the increasingly inventive deaths take place against a backdrop of innocent carols, glittering tinsel and good cheer. The Sun
It is uninventive, unresponsive, unintelligent, uninformed, and unmotivated to succeed.
They create a musical universe dominated by multiple percussion and underpinned by Mazinho Lima s tirelessly inventive bass guitar.
His imaginative brilliance is most apparent in his inventive and often witty designs for furniture and metalwork.
The film allows the director ample space for his visual imagination to freewheel with dazzling spontaneity and inventiveness.
The far-fetched story is propelled by its endlessly inventive energy and visual verve. Times, Sunday Times
These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate's most virulent and inventive poisons.
The winners had shown a great ability to be creative and inventive with their display table.
As a matter of fact, my brother painted very few things, at any stage of his career, as mere representations of reality, unimbued by some inventive or ideal meaning: in the rare instances when he did so, he naturally felt an indolent comfort, and made no scruple of putting the feeling into words — highly suitable for being taken _cum grano salis_. Old Familiar Faces
Desserts are inventive, too - we loved the refreshing piña colada with pineapple jelly. The Sun
Review: Light-hearted (skillfully borderline silly) and inventive story with strong characters and good back story about Kaz's bleb paranoia since the death of his parents at the "hands" of a bleb (a set of steak knives attached to a coat rack). REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #21 edited by Gardner Dozois
Pedestrian middle managers who stifle the enthusiasm of the inventive junior are the biggest block to bright ideas.
In these productions music, drama and dance are mixed in an inventive way.
Some surprisingly inventive puzzles are included amid the expertly handled robot blasting and leaping around with a jetpack. Times, Sunday Times
With his inventive sense of flattened, decorative form and composition, he has truly reinvented the still life, but he is also a master of whimsical erotica.
He spurs on his younger sidekick to a career best on a rollicking blues album that's full of great riffs and inventive playing. The Sun
Her "Willisville" online community, a wildly inventive precursor to something like Second Life, was devised with partner Prudence Fenton in the early 1990s -- years before most Americans even had AOL dial-up access or knew what a social network was -- and lauded by Fortune magazine as one of the emerging Internet's most exciting companies. Kristi York Wooten: Legendary Songwriter Allee Willis Brings Her Party to the People
Child 44 is a remarkable debut novel - inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith: Book summary
I can even be a bit evangelistic about it: techno can be a wildly inventive form.
Reuben Male, the captain of the fo'c'sle and an inventive type, had worked with Old Murray the sailmaker to make up these packs for all the men, so naturally the seamen called them Male Bags. The Terror
Those scissors remind me of the creative inventive and resourceful things my mother did.
In 2005, in typical Roadrunner fashion, the label devised a brilliantly inventive way to celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary. Roadrunner Records Latest News
Man is an inventive, innovative creature and his mind is constantly darting from one problem to another.
An endlessly inventive and incredibly addictive game. Times, Sunday Times
An inventive use of seismic isolators sliced another $2.5 million off the budget.
No other chef has ever come close to the scale, complexity and inventiveness of his creations.
Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours
They create a musical universe dominated by multiple percussion and underpinned by Mazinho Lima s tirelessly inventive bass guitar.
This device is the offspring of his inventive mind.
Fans of cinema, silent or not, will marvel at the acting, the production design, and the inventive nature of the movies, photographic recreations, and documentary material presented.
I can see nothing clever or inventive in the design on the right.
Certainly in Paris one sees very conspicuously the absence of the love of flowers; or, rather, one may say that for the subtle and inventive children of the Ile de France the flower is artificial, and what we call flowers are merely an insipid and subordinate variety, "natural flowers," having their market in a remote and deserted corner of the city, whereas in Barcelona the busiest and central part of the city is the Rambla de las Flores. Impressions and Comments
He went for each opponent in a bewildering flurry of movement, using speed and inventiveness to confuse and to scatter the wits of his opponent. Times, Sunday Times
The surreally fresh creel of sketch comedy was one of the freshest and inventive productions of the year - one that deserves to be remounted again, or toured.
Although she died relatively young, Mills was an inventive influence in the worlds of both jazz and ragtime in the 1920s.
They do not make spineless and uninventive psychedelia.
Many feel the same old idea's are being rehashed and recycled because the respective companies have lost they're inventive imagination when creating new episodes in gaming series.
Both are solid but uninventive folk-singers/guitarists.
They were inventive and sharp and were prepared to go for scores from all angles and from a varying range pattern.
What he admired in these poets was their inventive use of word and sound in every device of onomatopoeia, alliteration, pun and palindrome.
It's visual inventiveness and emotional resonance are second to none.
Nolan then called a gutsy, inventive game - direct snaps to receivers, an onside kick right after halftime, a phony fake punt and two attempted fourth-down conversions when the game still was winnable - yet nothing worked against the Seahawks 'sturdy defense. USATODAY.com - Football - San Francisco vs. Seattle
The best catches combine magnificent musical composition with intricate and inventive poetry.
In doing so, he demonstrates quite coherently and cogently that genuine lyric poetry is far from dead, that it is inventive and individual as it ever was.
The rhythms and basslines are smooth and inventive, never cliched.
At the other pole she describes the created product as something which is new, original and inventive.
An inventive graphic artist, he has worked in various printmaking techniques, including etching, screenprinting, and woodcut.
The AdWords learning edifice is Google's possess training tool for AdWords so I'd feature it is the prizewinning inventiveness for presenting information on every of Google's ad policies in a country and apothegmatic way. Xml's Blinklist.com
The point was the inventive richness of the language, the splendour of the vocabulary, the unstaunchable flow of imagination and invective. . . So No More He'll Go A-Roving
Freud certainly had many original ideas; but even the most inventive minds are indebted to their predecessors.
The food is both inventive and hearty - braised belly pork with black pudding, anyone?
inventive ceramics
In front of 39,000 supporters, they turned out a display that was uninventive, effortless and depressingly poor.
For this to be a real success, the programme would have also to be witty and inventive in its use of language.
When they do get around to it, they perform some of the most inventive numbers ever put on film - their bravura roller-skate through Central Park and Fred's romp in an immaculate white engine room accompanied by an ensemble of black stokers.
He used to cavort with her in stairwells and find inventive ways to eat cling peaches.
Here, the overall inventive concept is said to be obvious, and the particular means used to delimit the boundaries of the claim is insufficiently described.
Adding to the dynamism of the music are frequent pyrotechnic displays, inventive sets and props, and several giant video screens.
As in the original, the superrealist images beguile us with their bold wit, and the storytelling is so tight, urgent and inventive there doesn't seem to be a wasted moment. Further Proof: Toys
Being of an inventive turn of mind, Dr. Abrams set upon the task of developing an apparatus that would sort out these hypothetical vibratory rates and record them separately…
Recorded "at various concert halls around the globe between 2007-10" as his latest label blithely puts it, he's as inventive and unfailingly swinging here on his 62nd trio album as when he left Miami long ago. Evening Standard - Home
Here Kanfer shines, getting all of Bogart in an evocative, inventive phrase: "wounded, cynical, romantic, and as incorrodible as a zinc bar. "Tough Without a Gun," by Stefan Kanfer is a new biography of Humphrey Bogart
In the opening cue, he employs it in just about the most inventive way imaginable: a tuba plays the theme, sounding both sinister and comical.
The use of props and scenery is very inventive, there are nice little touches and stunning visual effects.
He was a winger in his early years but later preferred the fly-half's position: stocky, barrel-chested and quick as a flash, he was a notably inventive player.
His characters personify determination and inventiveness.
The way that Gondry goes for broke with insanely inventive special effects and gripping caprices is actually inspiring. Another 10 Movies to Watch Stoned/High » Scene-Stealers
The Suspension Bridge at Niagara is an artificial wonder as great, in its degree, as the natural miracle of the mighty cataract which thunders forever at its side; while no triumph of inventive economy could more aptly lead the imaginative stranger into the picturesque beauties of Wales than the extraordinary tubular bridge across the Menai Strait. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
The company has a reputation for inventive adaptations, ingenious design and musical innovation.
Their romances were fast-paced, inventive and fizzing with ideas. Times, Sunday Times
The sight gags are fantastically inventive, the detailing in the set design and costume stunning.
Perhaps Mr. Mazzocco's inventive use of the English language is the source of the confusion, with his "irriguous" organ and "banausic" muse which go "havocking" about the western world. Myra, Myron, & Gore
By eliminating barriers to creativity, the Gore culture encourages problem solving and inventiveness.
Their romances were fast-paced, inventive and fizzing with ideas. Times, Sunday Times
Aboriginal cultures also valued fine oratory and the languages were, and are, often poetic, inventive and witty.
Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry. A Bit of Punctuation
It is uninventive, unresponsive, unintelligent, uninformed, and unmotivated to succeed.
We need imaginative and inventive dietitians to nourish dietetic practice, to move it forward.
Through a giddying cast of characters and inventive physical comedy, Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen tell the story of astronaut Ross Sparks as he travels back in time to find his explorer father and right a wrong. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup
Sprouse, an inventive designer, had a flock of friends, many of whom were on hand.
It's a wildly inventive film which teases and torments the audience; a genuine one off. Times, Sunday Times
The inventive production is a work of art in its own right, every bit as cuckoo as the play.
We needed to be inventive about wording in the communique in consideration for a country that did not want to use the term 'current account balance'... Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
It's a shame then that after such an inventive start the album begins to flag midway, with a series of mid-tempo ballads plodding by in unremarkable succession.
Sidesplittingly silly, the film inventively skewers our obsession with the subject. The Sun
But there is also a sense of irrepressible fun, particularly in the lengthy, inventive and colourful swearing. The Sun
No one can help admiring the good sense and powerful, if limited, logic of the redoubtable opponent of the Précieuses and champion of formalism; he has all the qualities of a splendid fighter, and in spite of his crushing power of inventive he was far too wise to be bitter; but his enthusiasm for literary law and order makes him support all that is most unlyrical in poetry. Introduction
But Gillespie loved to sing and clown as well as to flabbergast with his brilliance and inventiveness, and he never quite saw why that should bother anybody. Jazz's Last Hero Trumpeter
Some futurists have said that we'll need to be more inventive, creative, and flexible to handle the tasks, flow and rhythm of life in this century and beyond.
Eventually he found an agreeable home in the University of Utah where his inventive genius could work unhindered.
There is a trend in connoisseurship to make the mistake of believing that a netsuke that is carved by a pupil in the style of his master and bearing his signature is in some way less powerful or inventive than one might expect from the master.
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.
Drawing inspiration on anything from folk to pop and jazz to electronica, Chemistry is a refreshing and inventive record.
Stroman's endlessly inventive choreography blends many forms of dance - from ballroom to jazz to ballet - into an idiom that's both witty and muscular.
Patents protect underlying ideas of useful inventions and processes, such as a chemical reaction or an inventive mechanical device.
Their mistake was in putting too much faith in the law and too little in their own ability to be inventive.
Bizarreness after bizarreness harries the hardy band of travellers, all of them rendered with Miéville's impressive ingenuity and inventiveness. Iron Council Linkdump
Without being particularly inventive, it is still a passable excuse for the protagonists to go places, draw swords and engage in smart wordplay.
Claim 1 is the only claim of the patent which is alleged to have been infringed by the Defendants yet to possess independent inventive significance.
Indeed, the band's famously-honed instincts and dayglo pop-smarts provide the contradictory musical notions that never allow the album to sway too far in one bleak direction or another: it's that friction extant between Chesnutt's shadowy worldview and the inventive bounce and bray of Elf Power's euphonous intraband chemistry that buoys Dark Developments, provides its freshness, and makes for rewarding repeated listening. My Old Kentucky Blog
He rarely made studies for entire compositions, but combined and recombined different figures from his sketchbooks into his inventive landscape and parkland settings.
Indeed, when they immigrate to developed countries they are often among the most creative and inventive people in their new homes.
You can do incredible things with almost no money if you have an inventive and resourceful team. Times, Sunday Times
Inventiveness, bite and enthusiasm keep it ahead of the pack and the intuitive Glass epitomizes those qualities, sending staff into raptures on a weekly basis with news of his latest audacious scoops at editorial meetings.
Some were more inventive in the means they took to make accusations of sexual misconduct.
He has surprised us before with his inventiveness.
An hour spent absorbing the color and black-and-white works provides a great introduction to an inventive artist whose wry sense of humor and smart downbeat attitude are urban adult all the way.
New Yorkers are notorious for their high expectations and their unyielding quest for quality and inventiveness. Times, Sunday Times
He is inventive and resourceful with vegetables, sourcing many from a walled garden 30 minutes from the restaurant. Times, Sunday Times
The dialogue is vigorous and inventive, with a bold sprinkling of verbal tics and oddities that only makes it more convincing. Times, Sunday Times
They may be a depraved tangle but it's the disparate concoction and uninhibited mindset that improbably make this band one of the most inventive and mystifyingly unsettling live acts I've seen in ages.
The tree house is a fairly uninventive display toy home for the creatures. Times, Sunday Times
In vivid inventiveness and rhetorical originality he outstrips his master Le Sueur, while showing a firm grasp of contrapuntal and fugal techniques not at all evident in his examination results at the time.
He was highly inventive.
On the musician's new disc, the organ pieces are fantastically inventive.
His presentation is at once inventive, venturesome, and irenic.
But the hard irreducible fact remains that one and only one combination of our prodigiously inventive sexual imagining is actually and naturally fruitful — as in, forms a self-replicating society that will perdure to need the law you craft for it. The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year
Instead what you get is something inventive and of the moment - they play tunes from their CD's, but they also like mixing stuff up and confounding expectations.
He has been very inventive in his use of language. The Sun
It's light and damnably inventive (how about langoustine royale with horseradish, cress and avocado?). Times, Sunday Times
The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration.
You'd almost describe the addition of the danceable element and becalmed melody-heavy tracks near the end as their polishing themselves up were it not for that such elements are rent asunder by the sheer bloody minded power of the fuzztone assault of Windett's guitar against the rhythm section's churning Kraut-disco inventiveness. The Line Of Best Fit
The finishes are colourful, inventive, and robustly functional.
This band's falsetto preening, cat suits and uninventive instrumental tripe is not intended to be a joke but comes off as a really bad one.
Every song is a flaccid, uninventive mix of mid-tempo, late ‘90s hard rock and pseudo-heavy vocal drive.
I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness.
The inventive foodstuff is prepared from vegetable products or from a mixture thereof with zoogenic products.
The music often astonishes with its inventiveness, and the performances are vital and quirky.
The band ventured further into rhythmic exploration on a marvellously inventive step forward. The Sun
There are wonderfully inventive new phrases turned every day by writers, comedians, rap artists and hoodies.
Stone uses his gifts as a scenarist to create a unique, inventive uplifting story.
I'm sure the Harry's Place commentariat can come up with inventive neologisms to describe political concepts recently arisen…
He spurs on his younger sidekick to a career best on a rollicking blues album that's full of great riffs and inventive playing. The Sun
The first is to identify the inventive concept embodied in the patent in suit.
Presidents need the media to communicate with the public, and have been inventive in devising techniques and strategies to reduce the impact of the media intermediating between president and public.
They were, though, marginally the more inventive in a game that showed signs of decline from the early stages.
Local authorities do have more powers of control than they had at first, but there is still a necessity for restraint and more inventive ways of thinking about where to put masts rather than desecrating the countryside.
Free trade is the enemy of complacent, uninventive firms. Times, Sunday Times
The inventive electronic image pickup device can adequately exhaust heat in the device so as to preventing temperature of image pickup elements from raised.
Simple and uncluttered, yet colourful and inventive - and that's just the packaging!
In the high street this is inventive use of language. Times, Sunday Times
Looking back at the early operations of the trade, and considering that steel pens were made by hand at the beginning of the present century, we can scarcely understand why the idea of cheapening the production by the application of labor-saving contrivances did not occur to those inventive geniuses, the proprietors of Soho. The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced
While the payoff is barely worth the effort, I was forced to marvel at his storytelling verve and his inventive prose style.
Ged's inventive guitar licks provide ideal underpinning for Andy's intricate songs and the group's blistering sets of reels and jigs.
Those scissors remind me of the creative inventive and resourceful things my mother did.
These cabin tours can be as inventive as campers' imaginations will allow.
You can do incredible things with almost no money if you have an inventive and resourceful team. Times, Sunday Times
Here is a rare combination: a clever sitcom script that also contains a wildly inventive, amazingly humorous musical.
Unsurprisingly, there were some pretty inventive ways of saying it, such as nill — from which the term willy-nilly (literally meaning “will he, won’t he” in Middle English) is derived. Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
Even as the game slid away from Hibs in the second half, they were inventive enough to create two clear scoring opportunities.
The quality of Miéville's writing is often breathtaking, his skill at characterisation unsurpassed, but in many ways even more remarkable is his sheer inventiveness, the genius with which he creates and populates his fantastic world.
‘Dark Hills’ is especially inventive in its percussion, shuffling snares, ticking woodblocks, cowbells, and claps all underneath a simple, dreamy piano pattern and melody.
He ruled the expansive Persian Empire with an iron grip and was diabolically inventive with his punishments.
The band ventured further into rhythmic exploration on a marvellously inventive step forward. The Sun
Superuse is an online community of designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in inventive ways of recycling. Prunings XXVII
Inventively enough, smaller bits of story pop in like a comic book panel, giving another perspective on how hard the enemy is scrambling to end Shank's bloodlust, which is something I couldn't get enough of. Gaming Age Online | Videogame News and Reviews
But for all the variousness and inventiveness with which Andrews treats the idea in his early work, one problem arises, acutely explored by P. Inman.
The movement could even be described as uninventive yet the whole piece is incredibly moving and symbolic.
If Kolkka's caper was at least inventive, Rooney's clap has already proved imitable. Which football teams have been referenced on album covers? | The Knowledge
The use of props and scenery is very inventive, there are nice little touches and stunning visual effects.
The dancers convey engaging personalities and the choreography is consistently inventive and vigorous. Times, Sunday Times
His pace is quirky and his direction of the actors inventive.
Yehoshua's novels engage Israeli and Jewish history in inventive and surprising ways, and his new novel, A Woman in Jerusalem, set in Israel during the difficult days of the Second Palestinian Intifada, is no different. The Passion Play of Death by Todd Hasak-Lowy
Where were the important elements: inventiveness, initiative, adaptability, intellectual curiosity, sensitivity, confidence, determination?
The inventive tasting menu may include an intriguing dish of dried scallop or a dessert of milk sorbet, blueberry and spruce syrup. Times, Sunday Times
This Toronto nonet is joined by the always inventive Sam Rivers, who just celebrated his 81st birthday.
That is because the additional feature does not really create a new inventive concept at all.
It wins points for two particular reasons: it's inventive use of the flugel horn and for helping to popularise the phrase 'piss midget'. Archive 2006-06-01
hiya, that is such a fabulously inventive idea...nice! cheers,j SHF # 10- Baklava-inspired Honey Gelato
Sound is used inventively, in manifold relationships to image, to suggest an active interplay between the conscious and unconscious.
It's a stunningly inventive, inquisitive 26th century noir thriller, oil-slippery in technophilia and resplendent in ultra-violence, and vibrating with fascinating questions about power, longevity, authority, artificial intelligence... and it's also surprisingly touching with exquisite prose. Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon
She has a highly inventive mind.
The hand is self - addressed as no other organ in the animal kingdom, and it has a prodigal inventiveness permitting choice also unmatched in other living creatures.
Both parties agreed that the addressee is deemed to be unimaginative and uninventive.
Tex Avery had wit, quicksilver charm, and near-boundless inventive genius.
The story is propelled by its inventive energy and visual verve. Times, Sunday Times
Our aim here is to create conditions that facilitate methodological inventiveness.
He believes that Irish building is dull and uninventive.
This is not to suggest that new houses should incorporate classical columns, a carved frieze or cornice but some inventiveness is called for.
No man is perfect, but men are creative, inventive and productive, and have created a wonderful human world. Dr T.P.Chia
She is the most inventive and formally radical painter around, turning image and surface inside out in unprecedented ways.
Simply referencing the greats of Latin music in his inventive productions was never going to be enough.
That Barry was an astoundingly inventive and populist composer is, by now, a given.
Extravagant names, colourful excess, intoxicating variety - sweets are a model of human inventiveness and exuberance.
The brilliantly inventive animation that accompanied him was. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the self-deprecation, both outfits do a fair imitation of rock stars, and while Fake Mistake is certainly shambolic, it's also a rewarding listen - assured, smart, and inventive.
Theatrically inventive and politically astute, it's a satire on American cultural imperialism.
Our freestyle pilots eagerly accepted the extra airtime and continued to slice up the sky with their inventive inverted flight maneuvers.
They were then free to be inventive and experiment on any type of surface that they desired.
The six episodes of Series One were so fresh and so inventive you couldn't help but want to see more.
Experimental designs involving factorial combination of multiple independent variables call for some inventiveness when it comes to graphical presentation of data.
They were supposed to be about things that involved a very great amount of originality, and thirdly, they were supposed to be about an inventive step that was useful to society.
Perhaps Mr. Mazzocco's inventive use of the English language is the source of the confusion, with his "irriguous" organ and "banausic" muse which go "havocking" about the western world. Myra, Myron, & Gore

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