(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.
Textual
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.
(a.) Serving for, or depending on, texts.
(a.) Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.
Example Sentences:
(1) The metaphor of clinical work as textual explication, however, creates the expectation that there is a text somewhere to be found.
(2) An electron microscopy image base, which is implemented on a microcomputer, can provide flexible and simultaneous access to both digitized electron micrographs and their relevant textual data.
(3) The Trip made sport of Coogan's trouble breaking Hollywood, yet no mention is made of the Oscar-nominated Philomena , which was shot shortly before this and could have made an interesting meta-textual cameo.
(4) Scalia was subsequently lampooned in a cartoon segment of Stewart’s The Daily Show titled “The Human Dissentipede.” Scalia was a champion of originalism, which he later called textualism: the approach to constitutional interpretation that looks to the meaning of words and concepts as they were understood by America’s founding fathers in the context of the 18th century.
(5) The study suggests that the Inquirer II System used by computers in content analysis of (textual) specific written material has value for longitudinal studies.
(6) In addition to the advantage of more efficient retrieval, electronic storage of textual data and digitized electron micrographs also offers the advantage of decreased storage space for this type of data.
(7) Jewish textual interpretation, in which the text alone yields authority, is nourished--like psychoanalysis--by the tension between reality and fantasy, by the contradiction between power and desire.
(8) Several variables that could influence the effectiveness of textual prompts to promote stimulus control were examined across four groups.
(9) In order to examine age differences in the ability to manipulate textual information, young and old adults were asked to recall and summarize prose passages.
(10) The system is also implemented in a demonstration mode to provide retrieval from three additional textual databases.
(11) The complexity of this task is due to the nature of the knowledge resources--knowledge can be in a variety of forms, ranging from textual and pictorial material, to structured representations, to more dynamic embodiments in the form of procedures.
(12) A microcomputer based database on dangerous animals and plants with capabilities of displaying real colour pictures of these animals and plants on the computer screen in addition to textual information has been developed and is available for medical doctors and other interested academics and professionals.
(13) The difficulty of presenting parasite life cycles in a textual or diagrammatic form is discussed and the use of computer-aided learning to solve this is described.
(14) A nationwide agreement on one key-system--including the transformation of textual structures--is proposed.
(15) While asserting this, no critic has traced the textual complexity of this persona, which is apparent in Cleland's use of figurative language and is accessible through close reading only.
(16) A technique for the integration of molecular images with supplementary textual and graphical information provided by commercial video titling software is also explained.
(17) The surgeon can get textual analysis at any time or see accelerated healing to the projected nasal appearance at 1 year.
(18) Sperling noted that his work was mostly historical and textual and that he had tenure, meaning that an inability to visit China should not affect his ability to keep a job, as it might for some scholars.
(19) With immediate testing, only 250 ms after the text, performance is shown to depend on semantic-associative information, not on textual information.
(20) This article describes the objectives, design and performance of a computer program which provides a textual simulation of autopsies.