demiurgic
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Adam, perhaps the novel’s only personable creation, is a kind of demiurgic naïf, somewhere between a wide-eyed ingénue and an Enlightenment philosophe.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”
From The Verge • Aug. 1, 2018
Balzac's characters, to whatever class they belong, bear the royal and passionate stamp of their demiurgic creator.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
These forms beheld in divine natures possess a fabricative power, but with us they are only gnostic, and no longer demiurgic, through the defluxion of our wings, or degradation of our intellectual powers.
From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas
Art is the free play of generous and creative imaginations with the life-blood of the demiurgic forces of the universe in their veins.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
