creative act

collocation in English

meaningsofcreativeandact

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creative
adjective
uk
/kriˈeɪ.tɪv/
us
/kriˈeɪ.t̬ɪv/
producing or using original and ...
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/
us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition ofcreativeandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcreative act

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Nitro-aerial particles held an innate power of motion, conferred by the initial divinecreativeact.
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Artistry, then, is not a matter of a particular interpretation, reading or instantiation of a score; it is thecreativeactitself.
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More overtly, he tells the reader to 'read this book as acreativeact', so placing a different emphasis on content.
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But it was obviously his original idea to convert this school custom into acreativeact.
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This means conversations in the medium of music and inside thecreativeactwhere pupils engage with their inner lives honestly and without intrusion.
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Smoking accompanied thecreativeactof lecturing and drawing.
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Thecreativeactwas far more important than plans to redistribute wealth.
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There are ways of integrating these processes, of bringing thecreativeactinto the realm of the experience of its results.
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In thecreativeact, whether as a performer, composer or respondent, the knowledge she discovers is not fully known until the making has been completed.
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The phase of writing which precedes the codification (the idea, thecreativeact, the writing of the mental process) would seem to be shared between two types (figure 2).
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This making is acreativeact.
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This is a great organisation essentially caught up in thecreativeact.
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Stale and full of ennui, this album makes washing the dishes seem a morecreativeactby comparison.
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The gesture of painting itself became thecreativeact.
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The construction of physical models is often acreativeact, and many bespoke examples have been carefully created in the workshops of science departments.
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They created ties built on pleasure, excitement, struggle, jealousy, life, and love and death, as in everycreativeact.
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Thecreativeactenables us to explore the universe.
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Is memory alone capable of stimulating thecreativeact?
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His works and projects are often political and ethical statements, preached the demand ofcreativeacton the subject.
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