demiurge
- n a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe
- This time, though, her single-mindedness promised a confrontation with the demiurge of 20th century dance.
- A pagan demiurge named Zorba goat-footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek.
- More important, Cheever, like a demiurge disguised in street clothes, has hidden the demonic quality in his work under the conventional natural-shoulder style of the realistic story.