demiurgic
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Adam, perhaps the novel’s only personable creation, is a kind of demiurgic naïf, somewhere between a wide-eyed ingénue and an Enlightenment philosophe.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 1, 2018
Art is the free play of generous and creative imaginations with the life-blood of the demiurgic forces of the universe in their veins.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
And even those who are inclined to adopt it do also believe in the existence of a long period between the beginning and the demiurgic days.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
Lastly, man is occasionally represented as having been framed out of a piece of the body of the Creator, or made by some demiurgic potter out of clay.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
