I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a creative approach (=thinking of new ideas and methods)
▪ International business requires a more creative approach.
artistic/creative ability
▪ You do not need to have any artistic ability.
artistic/creative flair
▪ a job for which artistic flair is essential
creative accounting
creative energy (=that makes you want to write, draw, paint etc)
▪ We have seen an explosion of creative energy from the band this year.
creative expression (=expressing something in a creative way, for example in music or art)
▪ They work with the children to encourage creative expression.
creative imagination
▪ I don't have the creative imagination to be a writer.
creative inspiration (=which inspires someone to create something new, for example a story or a work of art)
▪ Her creative inspiration is evident in this series of sculptures.
creative powers
▪ A music teacher should have a real interest in developing children’s creative powers.
creative thinking (=when you use your imagination to produce new ideas or things)
▪ Her solution to the problem was an example of good creative thinking.
creative writing (=the writing of fiction)
▪ He is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Michigan.
musical/artistic/creative etc talent
▪ It was at school that Brian’s musical talents were spotted.
sb’s creative/caring/feminine etc side
▪ The art program is meant to bring out children’s creative side.
scientific/creative etc endeavour
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Among the adoptees themselves the most highly creative showed an excessive rate of mental illness - as much as 30 percent.
▪ There may be tendencies to stereotype a scholar and thus ignore his highly creative experience.
▪ This denigrated order is highly creative and productive, and women's closeness to each other persists within it.
▪ He was a marketing vice president and a highly creative and task-oriented person with a natural inclination toward dominant behavior.
▪ All four of these requisites contribute to the performances of scholars and are essential for highly creative roles.
more
▪ Two examples are given here to illustrate how socially useful design could make a fuller and more creative use of new technologies.
▪ The other part is pushing chefs to become more creative to have hit restaurants.
▪ Giving you the freedom to be more creative and productive.
▪ He said they tend to be more eloquent and more creative because their experiences are mostly singular.
▪ Hilton's use of language in Scale 2 is more creative than in Scale 1.
▪ Spending money in more creative ways.&038;.
▪ This helps them to produce work substantially more creative and thoughtful than what they have been able to do before.
▪ Ever notice how they seem so much more creative than ours?
most
▪ But this fraction is the most creative, he says.
▪ Hyphens Hyphens, perhaps the most creative punctuation marks, join two or more words to create a single word.
▪ The most creative artists were by no means always preoccupied by social criticism.
▪ It impelled her toward her most creative acts.
▪ For this, the work of Carl Jung has offered some of the most creative wisdom.
▪ The most creative work will be done without regard for an immediate audience.
▪ Devising and working on projects is one of the most creative ways of managing people for profit.
▪ Capitalization Of all writing-related issues, people get most creative with capitalization.
very
▪ She was, they said, very creative.
▪ Can you imagine Pablo Picasso in a very regimented place, a very creative person?
▪ Some groups are very decisive, very productive, very creative and very satisfying for their members.
■ NOUN
act
▪ The creative act is indeed anarchic.
▪ The creative act was seen as heroic, the proof of an elevated level of existence.
▪ Indeed, improvisation is a performer's greatest creative act.
▪ It impelled her toward her most creative acts.
▪ As a creative act architecture can exist without building.
activity
▪ Teaching is supposed to be a creative activity, carried out by professional people, not by robots.
▪ The creative activity of Zeus accounts for the genesis of the world.
▪ He said that the essential ingredient of that, or any creative activity, was love.
▪ But my interest is also in their interest in my creative activities, which includes ballet, opera and multimedia things.
▪ Soloist John Kenny has a career which embraces a number of creative activities - composing, playing, acting.
▪ Out of season Formentera is a haven for writers and artists; the ambience is conducive to all creative activity.
▪ Despite all this creative activity Mozart composed no original symphonies until his trip to Paris in 1778.
▪ Art is seen as an exercise in fine motor skills or appreciation of nature and not as a creative activity.
approach
▪ However, a really creative approach can be a great attention-fixer and have a lasting effect.
▪ You encourage the creative approach and the unusual ideas.
▪ Having access to the creative approaches to the reforms in other authorities was really useful.
▪ A creative approach to the use of family therapy techniques with later life families is to be encouraged.
▪ How to present them Sometimes a creative approach can give added interest to the pack.
artist
▪ They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance.
▪ The staggering ego of this brilliant, creative artist needs your help regaining its feet.
▪ For the record Twentieth-century Old Masters Joni, deliberate counterfeiter or creative artist?
▪ The most creative artists were by no means always preoccupied by social criticism.
▪ The creative artist may manipulate a medium until something of interest turns up.
collaboration
▪ Those three tasks are familiar to almost everyone involved in creative collaboration.
▪ But creative collaboration is a two-way street.
▪ As the real-life Oppenheimer so clearly did, the screen Oppie knows his creative collaboration.
▪ Kidder has a wonderful term to describe the structures that result in creative collaboration.
▪ Each achieved or produced something spectacularly new and each was widely influential, often sparking creative collaboration elsewhere.
▪ In a true creative collaboration, almost everyone emerges with a sense of ownership.
▪ The kind of people who engage in creative collaboration want to do the next thing, not repeat the last one.
▪ This is one of the paradoxes of creative collaboration.
director
▪ Last month, the top creative director, Jeremy Clarke, quit after less than five months with the agency.
energy
▪ Which means you have creative energy.
▪ What could be coming is an explosion of creative energy that could change the way men think about clothes.
▪ Change, the development of something new, unleashes people's creative energy.
▪ Desperate attempts to find wriggle room to justify or excuse bad decisions are a waste of time and creative energy.
▪ The serpent, symbolic of the creative energy, and the rainbow, symbolic of the sustaining principle, are therefore siblings.
▪ This year's explosion of creative energy should come as no surprise.
expression
▪ It must be possible to encourage creative expression and to correct spelling mistakes.
▪ Jana's work is based on the belief that exploring creative expression is one way of finding and strengthening our inner power.
flair
▪ How do you utilise your creative flair and imagination?
force
▪ Then consider what effect such beliefs might have as powerful, creative forces in your life.
genius
▪ The creative genius of artist, composer, or writer is a kind of genie.
▪ The days of the creative genius prima donna are over.
▪ There followed a period of about fifteen years when creative genius became evident, such as the works of William Shakespeare.
▪ After all, you are a creative genius and these characters are mere socialites.
group
▪ The creative group will usually, as we have seen, consist of a writer and an artist.
▪ In creative groups, failure is regarded as a learning experience, not a pretext for punishment.
▪ The traffic or progress department monitors the advertisement's progress from the creative group to the newspaper or magazine concerned.
idea
▪ However, if you have creative ideas and good material, face-to-face contact is by no means necessary.
▪ Without their loyalty, their creative ideas, and their hard work the company will not succeed.
▪ In no area is there a greater need for a rich variety of creative ideas.
▪ The striking visual appearance of that black and white outline has sparked off innumerable creative ideas.
▪ New and creative ideas and better ways to do things come not from systems but from people.
▪ This also gives a chance for creative ideas to arise.
▪ Most creative ideas spring from analogy of some kind.
imagination
▪ The creative imagination reconciles inner and outer worlds in metaphorical synthesis.
▪ Those are the right touchstones: breadth of mental outlook and creative imagination.
▪ His piece here demonstrates something insufficiently noted-the way in which his creative imagination informs his acute thought.
▪ A variety of exercises that draw on the student's own experience and creative imagination.
inspiration
▪ For good measure, she's famous for her ability to stimulate creative inspiration, too.
mind
▪ The world is still rich with natural resources that could be reshaped by your creative mind.
people
▪ This type of analysis is helpful to agency creative people, but has practical limitations.
▪ As Dave notes, they both work more than half-time and supply the input of two creative people.
▪ The intensity of creative people varies in degree.
▪ Let's, like, build our own company that will look after the interests of creative people like us.
▪ Working closely with other creative people at Black Mountain, artists often experienced accelerated creative growth.
▪ At the start, we introduced ourselves: most were creative people or professionals, aged between 25 and 35.
▪ One of the best things about advertising is the people, creative people that is.
person
▪ Better still, never leave Little Puddington at all if you wish to be a wholly fulfilled and creative person.
▪ Can you imagine Pablo Picasso in a very regimented place, a very creative person?
▪ I don't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person.
▪ If you're creative in a songwriting sense, then you are a creative person, period.
power
▪ The birth would be the result of the direct intervention of the creative power of the Holy Spirit.
▪ Thus, Nietzsche underlines our creative power in playing with masks, in taking up selves only to put them down again.
▪ You are the enabler, the creative power, the prime mover, the faith is faith in you.
▪ This creative power expresses itself in and through everything.
▪ But Kubla Khan does not merely illustrate this creative power.
▪ But leaders, having achieved self-possession, have long since recovered their creative powers, too, and have continued to grow.
▪ Strengthened by his ability to understand the phenomenon of sound, early man became conscious of the creative power inherent in it.
▪ It is one and indivisible, unlimited in understanding and creative power.
process
▪ Epic poetry, like sculpture, is an Apolline art, and all such art involves a quite different creative process.
▪ And secondly, that the creative process is not that of the confessional.
▪ Does it not merely subtract from what is already there, and shouldn't a truly creative process add something too?
▪ It is the creative process that gives each its special character.
▪ To say the least, this is a curb on the creative process, and artistically destructive.
▪ A multi-dimensional approach has the potential to discover and support creative processes in the local community.
▪ For a woman, releasing the creative process in herself is in fact a passive state.
▪ Vertical integration of media conglomerates adds pressure to the marketplace and the creative process.
side
▪ But for publishing, these characteristics take second place to the creative side.
▪ But the magazine finally has given her a way to combine her creative side with her business side.
▪ This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control.
▪ I had nothing to do with the recording and creative side but I changed guitar strings and that kind of thing.
▪ Don't think for a moment that the women are all on the creative side of the business.
▪ The right-hand side of your brain is the creative side.
solution
▪ Yet the world we live in cries out for more critical and creative solutions to many, pressing problems.
▪ Look for the more creative solution - the tried and true don't always bring the best results.
▪ Subsequently the highly rated manager develops creative solutions and provides new insights into problems.
▪ What matters is that the creative solution has a credible and realistic basis.
talent
▪ Voice over It's an inspiration for their creative talents.
▪ But a visit to a local physician for a routine checkup sparked a new focus for her creative talents.
▪ Agencies are always hungry for creative talent.
▪ Meanwhile, the London-based ad firm was scrambling to rejuvenate the account, bringing in creative talent from their Southern California office.
▪ Due to the low pay offered the likelihood was that anyone with creative talent would be attracted to a better-paid job elsewhere.
team
▪ Just how does cooperation between a planner and the creative team work?
▪ It also makes use of most of the same creative team, including much of the 20-member cast.
▪ Let's take an example of the planner and creative team together.
▪ Finally the creative team should be told where the advertising should appear and how much money there is to spend.
▪ His disciplinarian approach was seen to be at odds with West Ham's tradition as a freewheeling and creative team.
▪ When the creative team has produced an idea or ideas, these are often put to suitable groups to get their reactions.
▪ The creative team Generally speaking they are the ones who do not wear suits - or look rather uncomfortable when they do.
thought
▪ A brainstorming session is devoted to creative thought.
▪ Through the centuries, millions of people have used caffeine to help spark creative thought.
▪ Business courses place an importance on creative thought because it is new ideas which keep a business ahead of its competition.
▪ The ability to use fantasy and imagination underlies much of creative thought.
▪ More advanced is creative thought which also has many of the attributes of purposive thought.
▪ In the essay on craftsmanship it becomes a strategy for creative thought.
▪ An unnatural element is introduced between the writer and the free flow of creative thought.
▪ It is also a cliche that computers are incapable of creative thought - in other words, imagination.
use
▪ Retirement in poverty may offer little scope for creative use of leisure.
▪ Two examples are given here to illustrate how socially useful design could make a fuller and more creative use of new technologies.
▪ To date, however, little thought has been given to balancing love and work through creative use of communications media.
▪ The creative use of existing clubs and leisure facilities could go much of the way to addressing this concern.
▪ His work is known for its theatrical style and creative use of shadows.
▪ These attempts have drawn very little on mainstream psychological theory, but they have made extensive and creative use of psychoanalysis.
way
▪ There must be many other ways of capitalizing in a creative way on the restrictions of being housebound.
▪ You have to find creative ways of providing the illusion of space in a price tag that more people can afford.
▪ Pupils are given the opportunity to use technology in a creative way and enhance the quality of their own learning.
▪ Spending money in more creative ways.&038;.
▪ If we think about it in a creative way the blossoms will come.
▪ Looking for a creative way to make a meal out of leftover scraps of ham, turkey or pork roast?
▪ The creative way of handling tensions is to be prepared to forgive right from the beginning.
▪ For the past few years, many guides also have found creative ways to take tours to the monuments after dark.
ways
▪ Some people can struggle by themselves to understand and learn new and more creative ways of living.
▪ You have to find creative ways of providing the illusion of space in a price tag that more people can afford.
▪ Even if camping is still a complete turn-off for her there are plenty of creative ways to enjoy the outdoors without camping.
▪ Spending money in more creative ways.&038;.
▪ Devising and working on projects is one of the most creative ways of managing people for profit.
▪ For the past few years, many guides also have found creative ways to take tours to the monuments after dark.
▪ They are looking for creative ways of dealing with the litigation explosion.
▪ Modern couples are, however, finding many creative ways of working out their lives.
work
▪ Probably creative work was all the real satisfaction he obtained in those stressful years.
▪ To make more out of it may require a tremendous amount of creative work within the individual disciplines.
▪ Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work!
▪ The agency originated no new creative work for the brands.
▪ Once over anything never seems to be enough for creative work.
▪ He liked producing plays because he enjoyed creative work, and he was good as a leader and director.
▪ Unlike novels and other creative works, factual compilations like phone books and directories tend to be cut and dry.
writer
▪ Most successful creative writers take this for granted.
▪ At first you resent it, but then you get used to it, and it is good for being a creative writer.
writing
▪ That is the nature of creative writing to me.
▪ And she has tried to defuse the threat which science undoubtedly can pose against creative writing.
▪ In prisons which offer art or creative writing classes, inmates will pour out their frustrated feelings in painting or poetry.
▪ He's easily distracted from anything that isn't creative writing, though, very up-and-down.
▪ This is not just about the creation in a religious sense but Coleridge's own creative writing.
▪ The exciting and liberating redirection achieved during the sixties, usually characterised as the creative writing movement, has lost its way.
▪ Posters and displays, demonstrations and exhibitions, craft activities, and opportunities for creative writing should all be encouraged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ creative architectural designs
▪ Children should be allowed to develop their creative as well as their academic abilities.
▪ Davis was one of the most creative jazz musicians of our time.
▪ Ed, you are so creative - where did you learn to draw like that?
▪ I enjoy my job, but I'd like to do something more creative.
▪ Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most creative directors.
▪ This year's prize goes to the creative young author Ben Williams.
▪ We encourage the children to use their creative abilities.
▪ We need someone creative and enthusiastic to take this project forward.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it also contains many plot elements with which you can be creative.
▪ But there was next to no creative intellectual stimulation.
▪ Communities are more flexible and creative than large service bureaucracies.
▪ I move confidently among the technicians, the ideas-men and creative consultants, the engineers and fine-tuners.
▪ It's creative recycling as much as material recycling.
▪ Our goals-peace based on military strength and creative foreign policy, economic growth, tax re-form, and fiscal sanity-would never change.
▪ Some groups are very decisive, very productive, very creative and very satisfying for their members.
▪ The creative advertiser has the function of stimulating arousal in buyers.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For creatives, then, the strategy needs to be clear, brief; but also stimulating.