Word: inventive
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...soon, though, it is to be hoped. These handsome new books, containing a trove of information ! waiting to be mined, stand solidly between the past and future. They are an inexhaustible record of what we have written and said and the foundation for what we may yet come to invent...
...between caricature modernism (the neurotic Rubik's Cubes of the deconstructivists) and caricature classicism (the pretty confections of the postmodernists). His best work combines virtues of 1920s European rigor and 1980s American charm, of Gropius and Graves. His designs tend toward the ascetic, and he is determined to invent, not simply revive old styles...
...only lasting solution, then, is to invent some new words. I have contacted the English Department several times for this purpose, but they have been completely unresponsive. The administration at least called me back, pledging to appoint a committee to look into the matter...
...going to invent a new office," he said...
...everyone's heading off wiser. There has to be a moral resolution. Unfortunately, life isn't like that. I felt that if you are going to try to write a novel about New York, you cannot play falsely with the issue of ethnic and racial hostility. You can't invent implausible morality tales and make it all go away in some fictitious fashion...