creative impulse

collocation in English

meaningsofcreativeandimpulse

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creative
adjective
uk
/kriˈeɪ.tɪv/us
/kriˈeɪ.t̬ɪv/
producing or using original and ...
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impulse
noun
uk
/ˈɪm.pʌls/us
/ˈɪm.pʌls/
a sudden strong wish to ...
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(Definition ofcreativeandimpulsefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This philosophy of work does not stop with thecreativeimpulsebehind the company, but permeates into their everyday interactions.
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Her critical writing embodied thecreativeimpulse, but at the same time acknowledged its own supplementary status.
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Its natural surface, figured with irregular holes, was like a petrified image of nature'screativeimpulse.
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Like a soft science of thecreativeimpulse, its targets of knowledge are everywhere.
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It is the basic imperative of thecreativeimpulseto explore, document, describe and interpret through one's art as much experiential territory as possible during one's lifetime.
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As one becomes older and the power of creativity slowly fails, one admires even more the good spirits and enthusiasticcreativeimpulseof a younger man.
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Thecreativeimpulse, the genius among workers for the devising of new processes is crushed by the capitalist system.
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It is only the producer, who, very often, is thecreativeimpulseof the whole thing, who is not allowed to make more than £25 a week.
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People may perceive the individual's eccentric behavior as the outward expression of their unique intelligence orcreativeimpulse.
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He was not a great original thinker; he lacked the creative faculty and thecreativeimpulse.
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The concept of spiritual evolution is also complemented by the idea of acreativeimpulsein human beings, known as epigenesis.
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The artist follows his personal and innatecreativeimpulsethrough a display of line and an audaciously unashamed colour palette.
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So what, then, prompts people to express their creative impulses by writing music?
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Stankowski's work is noted for straddling the camps of fine and applied arts by synthesising information andcreativeimpulse.
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It is easy to talk about developing the creative impulses of the individual and of fostering the individual in society.
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Whatever the political, editorial and creative impulses behind the media, their independence must be protected at all costs.
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If that determination to increase production with the plant we have pervades all our industries, we shall find that the difficulties of today are the creative impulses of tomorrow.
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Other cultures had moments of creative impulses but the idea of creativity for its own sake was not sustained.
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Teachers inculcate a taste and love for true art, and to get creative impulses of the actual life.
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