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

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

The Sabbath, or seventh day, in which God rested from his work, has not yet terminated; and there is reason to suppose the demiurgic days may have been at least of equal length.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

In the cosmogonical myths of the Muyscas this was the home or source of Light, and was a name applied to the demiurgic force.

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison