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• s  (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
  an imaginative use of material

• It's impossible to outdo George Orwell's wonderfully overstated appraisal of Miller in 1940 "the only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the .
• Ellis used his empathic powers to convey how Jefferson explained himself to himself--as a young idealist constructing "interior worlds of great imaginative appeal," even if they .
• For more than 20 years, the Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki has been crafting films more lusciously illustrated and rapturously imaginative than almost anything else on .

• inventive

News & Articles

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• Ideas in motion: Local choreographer takes her show to Broadway
  Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Leighton Photography: After receiving a prestigious award for her imaginative dance, McKinney resident Bree Hafen is taking her choreographic skills to New York in early August, where her full-length performance will be showcased on Broadway.
  June 20, 2013 - The Allen American
• River Inside the River
  Gregory Orr's twelfth collection of poems is one of this year's most intriguing, imaginative books of verse.
  June 19, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• ‘Urban Decay’ takes over Lorton’s Workhouse
  Street-smart graffiti, wildly imaginative vinyl toys, comic book-, tattoo-, sci fi-, punk- and hip hop-inspired paintings and sculptures — lowbrow art is getting highbrow treatment at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton. And it isn’t the first time.
  June 18, 2013 - The Fairfax County Times

Quotes

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• Sean Penn in Reuters UK
  It seems there has been a rejuvenation of cinema building worldwide; increasingly thoughtful, provocative, moving, and imaginative films by talented filmmakers: that a new generation of filmmaking may have begun,Penn said in the festival's...
• Gore Vidal in Guardian Unlimited
  He was sort of like nobody else,said Gore Vidal, who noted that he, Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were among the last writers around who served in World War II. "He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn't go in for imagination very...
• James Cameron in TheCelebrityCafe.com
  In April, Cameron said, "I'm going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won't be a rain forest," about the future sequel.