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

Balzac's characters, to whatever class they belong, bear the royal and passionate stamp of their demiurgic creator.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

And again in the Gorgias, he relates the fable concerning the three fabricators, and their demiurgic allotment.

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas

One is strangely conscious in reading him of the presence of some great unuttered power—some vast demiurgic secret—struggling like a buried Titan just below the surface of his mind, and never quite finding vocal expression.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper