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

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

Ptah, the Hephaestus of the Greeks, a demiurgic and creative god, special patron of hand-workers and artisans.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

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 Hitchcock, Edward