This person, in order to be 'truly' creative, must be liberated from constraints and allowed to operate as theirmusesuggests.
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The song 'just happened' - they are like an authentic genius composer visited by themuseand effortlessly delivered of a perfectly formed piece of music.
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Rather than honing and polishing a good musical idea, he wanted to follow the dreamingmuseof his genius down every rabbit hole.
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Similarly, terms such as ' siren' and 'muse' are used almost exclusively to refer to women.
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Perhaps this actually helped us to avoid offering any hasty conclusions, and so we were left musing on a number of parallel themes.
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As amuse, she sometimes threatened and sometimes empowered.
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Perhaps, as defensive sceptics sometimesmuse, our discovery of moral truths can be likened to our investigations of nature.
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The real, however, is the universal solvent of the comicmuse, already ousted in favour of her tragic sister.
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For poets, the language of inspiration comes from the hajis and - hal-la, muses that dwell in the world of jinn.
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His is a graceful but not a comfortablemuse.
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Some common examples found in this corpus are ' siren', 'muse' and ' chanteuse'.
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One verb, namelymuse, had to be discarded due to its obscure original meaning, which means that we ended up with 21 verbs.
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Theymusealso provide encouragement for vibrant economic enterprise where investment, good management and good work are rewarded.
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There were nine of them—nine discordant muses, each singing a different song.
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A great changemusebrought about in the overall attitude to women.
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