Crossword-Solution: INVENTS
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| Fabricates | 8 answers |
| Coins | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INVENTS (5)
The saying that the poet is born, not made, applies with equal force to the inventor, who, though indebted like the other to culture and improved opportunities, nevertheless invents and goes on inventing mainly to gratify his own instinct.
Real reasons as distinguished from alleged reasons and imagined reasons, from the reasons self-deception invents and vanity gives out--real reasons are always interesting and worth noting.
Kitty and Minnie Kirke likewise regard him with affection, and tell all sorts of stories about the plays he invents, the presents he brings, and the splendid tales he tells.
Although it may be true that whatever puzzle one man invents, some other man may unravel, as before observed, I am decidedly of opinion that this trick defies detection.
Impressionability is one of the conditions of the creative faculty: the sensitive mind is the only mind that invents.
Quotes with INVENTS (3)
Man invents nothing God did not create first.
A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no words written, of which th…
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–2021).