originative
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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
Most intelligent people have found some happiness in learning that the dealings of God—that is, the creative and originative power behind the universe—are at all events not whimsical, however unintelligible they may be.
From At Large by Benson, Arthur Christopher
What he lacked was depth of feeling, the sense of noble form, the originative force of a great mind.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
In other words they are affiliated, each according to its geographical position, to the chief originative centres.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
