(n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
(n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
(n.) Openness of heart; ingenuousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tempo was better in the second, although there remained the general lack of ingenuity.
(2) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(3) Britain's success is built on the ideas and ingenuity of those who have come here from abroad.
(4) The economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg, said the government was concerned about Alstom's future, calling it "the symbol of our industrial power and French ingenuity".
(5) He does not have the ingenuity of Diego Maradona or the lawless wit of Luis Suárez, so does not cast spells over opponents, but he has shown that he can certainly help subdue them and uplift his team.
(6) Clean, regenerative energy could provide a way past peak oil and our detrimental fossil fuel addiction – if we collectively had the will to employ renewables, and addressed the change as urgently as the US did during the second world war when we unleashed our scientific creativity and industrial ingenuity to support the war effort.
(7) The UN has criticised these policies , which display none of the ingenuity or flair of the street papers or Housing First advocates, whose methods, while not perfect, have at least been shown to reduce urban homelessness.
(8) Beaumont, wide of eyes and clutching her handbag, has a lovely ingenuous manner, and a reliably crowd-pleasing set, but her brand of comedy is as cosy as a Hovis ad .
(9) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(10) "Kodak thanks these industry leaders for their support and ingenuity in finding a way to extend the life of film."
(11) The ingenuity and imagination of health care providers trying to find ways to continue providing high-quality and safe care to patients are being tested daily.
(12) The predilection of such lesions to rupture, with resultant hemorrhage, thrombosis, and distal ischemia, has led to constant attempts at surgical management, including ligation and incision, wrapping, wiring, plasticizing, packing, obliterative and reconstructive endoaneurysmorrhaphy, and a wide variety of procedures both ingenious and ingenuous.
(13) He called his pressure group founded to rid society of the evil of cake 'FUCKD and BOMBD' he described the effects of cake in lurid, pantomime terms that wouldn't have convinced a 14-year-old ingenue.
(14) Steven Gaydos, executive editor of Variety magazine, suggests that, “like Aniston, part of her appeal is her girl-next-door quality, and both … have transitioned from ingenues to mature actresses known for bold artistic choices and broad popular appeal”.
(15) Imaginary United-supporting-me silently approved Sir Alex's ingenuity.
(16) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
(17) The common thread running through all of them is that they depend on the ingenuity and time of the local people, and require nothing external.
(18) There is no substitute for the use of intelligence and common sense both in the drawing up and interpretation of a disaster plan; for compromise in dealing with other rescue services; for ingenuity in filling the gaps in the equipment with which you find yourself provided; and, finally, perhaps most important, for self-discipline.
(19) In the next century we will see a serious test of whether or not mankind has lost its ability to foresee and forestall the side effects of scientific and technological ingenuity.
(20) In view of the significance placed upon facial beauty in today's society, it becomes incumbent upon us to recognize the ingenuity and skill of those in the past to gain appreciation for the present state of the art and to provide incentive for improving facial and ocular prosthetic restorations in the future.
Mind
Definition:
(v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.
(v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.
(v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
(v.) Courage; spirit.
(v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.
(n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.
(n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.
(n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
(n.) To have in mind; to purpose.
(n.) To put in mind; to remind.
(v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(2) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(5) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(7) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(8) This is a rare diagnosis but it should still be kept in mind, particularly in the immigrant population of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia and particularly of the Saudis from the southern provinces.
(9) The patients must be examined with these disorders in mind and when any drug related illness is found, it must be treated immediately.
(10) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
(11) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(12) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(13) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(14) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(15) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(16) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(17) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(18) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(19) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(20) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.