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

These forms beheld in divine natures possess a fabricative power, but with us they are only gnostic, and no longer demiurgic, through the defluxion of our wings, or degradation of our intellectual powers.

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

Europe is a loom on whose earthen framework demiurgic forces like Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and Napoleon once wove the texture of European civilization.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various