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
The child must himself be originative, directive, and executive in the learning process if cram is to be avoided completely.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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 John Addington Symonds
Man is originative in character; and poets—"of imagination all compact"—catch this new form of life, and we call the picture poetry.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Youth is daring and originative; middle age is less venturesome, but it possesses, on the other hand, a wider range of experience.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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