What is "inventiveness"

Usage examples of "inventiveness".

I announced, supported by facts I felt no need to produce, that we were pitched in a final footrace, not between Manichaean political ideologies but between inventiveness and built-in insanity.

It would be more than a little surprising, from what we know of the lack of inventiveness on the part of the Phenicians and their tendency to acquire their arts by imitation, if they had reached such a climax of invention by themselves.

When we had been married, he slept like a kitten, ate like a Hun, and made love like a teenager with a tireless inventiveness that relied on our own two able bodies, not prepackaged toys.

His intelligence, inventiveness, and business acumen have already taken on mythlike characteristics.

What's most interesting about A Deepness in the Sky in this context w apart from Vinge's playful inventiveness and the pacing that keeps one on seat-edge -- is how Vinge's scenario neatly encapsulates the dichotomy in sf made clear in Dozois's anthologies.

As always, the astonishments sprang from the details, the infinite versatility of protein and inventiveness of nature.

The children of Latin America and their children must believe their ancestors achieved grandeur and greatness entirely from their own inventiveness.

A divine 'punishment' is also a divine 'gift', if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make 'punishments' (that is changes of design) produce a good not otherwise to be attained: a 'mortal' Man has probably (an Elf would say) a higher if unrevealed destiny than a longeval one.

From now on, they would no longer be able to grin and shake their heads at the wondrous inventiveness of the randomizing factor in her programming.

During his last rendezvous but one with Frix and her ladies in a star-grazing Arilian pleasure palace upon a sky-scraping peak in the moon-raking mountain range which rims the northern shore of Nehwon's southern continent, facing the planet-ringing equatorial ocean, he had on a wager let himself be bound naked so securely he could move not a finger and then watched Frix and Floy erotically delight to culminating first themselves with themselves alone and then, exercising infinite slow inventiveness, each other whilst alternately Floy recited “The Rapes of St.

Ridcully opened the tap marked 'Spray' and leapt aside, because part of him was still well aware that Johnson's inventiveness didn't just push the edge of the envelope but often went across the room and out through the wall of the sorting office.