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Marshall lacked the self-creating fire of a Washington, the scattershot genius of a Jefferson and the inner demons of a Hamilton.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2019

On one level, since there has always been great television, this just means that people — critics, and the rest of you — have been given permission, by the self-creating zeitgeist, to take it seriously.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2014

The Czech nickname for them is Samorost, which translates roughly as self-creating.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2010

She is as young as on the first day; and the Alps are a symbol of the self-creating, self-sufficing, self-enjoying universe which lives for its own ends.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Accordingly, the faculty of imagination is much more mixed up with a popular discourse, but only to reproduce, to renew previously received representations, and not to produce, to express its own self-creating power.

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich