originality
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Now companies avoid originality in favor of “churning out more films within franchises,” which is cheaper and easier than developing original products with independent creators.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Judges praised the "originality, innovation, ambition" of Jolly's work which "confronts a topic of immense complexity in a gripping tour de force".
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
The film can hardly avoid being described as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” meets “Enemy of the State,” and that such comparisons are so obvious bespeaks a certain lack of originality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
"Even if we do the restoration with our great artists and specialists in restoration, where will the originality be?" he said.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Whether we are aware of it or not, tradition is the framework within which we inevitably form our opinions of works of art and assess their degree of originality.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
