originality
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That it can’t touch us in the depths of our hearts is why it makes human originality more, not less, precious.
This jukebox musical imagines with unstinting originality a scenario in which the doomed heroine of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” doesn’t die at the end of the play.
From Los Angeles Times
Afghanistan’s internecine bloodshed has an epiphanic effect on the author: “When death stalks every door,” she writes in a burst of originality, “the only antidote is to live.”
Because she has a large family to shop for, she focuses on finding gently-used gifts that offer both quality and originality, knowing her relatives value the thoughtful strategy.
From MarketWatch
His many flaws are redeemed by his own awareness of them, as well as by the brilliance and originality of his thought.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.