"She was the source of my energy, the front-runner of everything intellectual, inventive and original in our most formative years," Mr. Avedon said.

But, as he was looking to economize on space, Mr. Ploetz decided to focus his inventive energies solely on the beard.

Gatsby's inventive energy resounds in the buoyant though somewhat forced flash of brightness that arrives when his deluded father comes on stage.

It was Leonardo da Vinci who brought an inventive energy to machines and mechanism.

He had courage, a vivid sense of duty, an indefatigable love of work, and all the inquisitive zeal and inventive energy of a born reformer.

But to debunk guns you don't fetishize them, as Mr. Sachs does here by bringing such inventive energy to their construction.

"I've got a lot of inventive energy now, but I won't have it forever."

As death and treachery multiply, Pinto's faith in reason and science seems ever more misplaced, and his inventive energy only makes the war more terrible.

Quality is mixed, but there is much invigorating satiric humor and inventive esthetic energy.

In this his inventive energy makes Welch's more delicate line appear fussy and twee.