inventiveness

Example Sentences

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On movie screens, Peter Sellers reveled in comic inventiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

It would be inconceivable to not include “The Princess Bride” in any consideration of Reiner’s best, as the swashbuckling fantasy romance embodies a sense of playful inventiveness and anything-can-happen ethos.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

He added that Dahl's inventiveness came up in his children's books and the Bond screenplay.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

It’s a younger generation than the new vaudevillians like Bill Irwin and David Shiner, but this group has the same inventiveness, ambition and dedication to breathing new life into old shtick.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

Still another alternative view holds that it is a matter not of individual inventiveness but of the receptivity of whole societies to innovation.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond