Creations
[krɪ'eʃən]
Examples
- The imitative artist will be in a brilliant state of intelligence about his own creations? Plato. The Republic.
- Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His creations are not tested by rule and measure; they are only appearances. Plato. The Republic.
- For consistency, too, is the growth of time; and some of the greatest creations of the human mind have been wanting in unity. Plato. The Republic.
- I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the a?rial creations of the poets. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In some respects this process seems almost more wonderful than the original Stereoscope, for it gives solid form and apparent substantiality to the mere creations of the artist's pencil. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Inventions, then, are not creations, but the evolution of man-made contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Whatever is built by man for man's occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the intention of its existence, or soon perish. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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