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

Such a man is demiurgic, for he puts down a hand on action through the sky.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

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

Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Goethe—what exalted, what demiurgic creations have they bequeathed to us, what power to move, what beauty to ponder with unapproachable longing!

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various