Literary notes about Ingenious (AI summary)
Authors deploy "ingenious" to celebrate cleverness, inventive schemes, and the artful juxtaposition of simplicity and complexity. In some works, the term praises a character's acumen or inventive contrivance, as when a mind is lauded for devising brilliant schemes ([1], [2]), while in others it underscores the artful construction of devices or plots that are both subtly clever and cunningly elaborate ([3], [4], [5]). It also appears in critical examinations of ideas, where ingenious reasoning is valued for its ability to unite disparate thoughts into a coherent whole ([6], [7]). Whether applied to a cunning ruse, a charming plan, or a visionary design, "ingenious" connotes a resourcefulness that goes beyond mere cleverness to embody originality and practical wit ([8], [9]).
- When writing his own name at the end of each chapter he calls himself "Siddha patiya pandita," i.e. , an ingenious man among learned men.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana - "Henry," he said, in a soft and winning voice; "I have always believed you ingenious, and you have rendered me a service never to be forgotten.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - He refused for a long time, but acceded at last on my earnest entreaty, and I found that it was nothing more than an ingenious trick.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay - [39] This ingenious contrivance keeps the leverage of the rim constant
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - If so, it must have been one of those ingenious secret codes which mean one thing while they seem to mean another.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - The question of the origin of myths is one which affords abundant opportunity for ingenious theories in the absence of any possibility of proof.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - And this ingenious Napoleon paves the streets of his great cities with a smooth, compact composition of asphaltum and sand.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - The American thought of himself as a restless, pushing, energetic, ingenious person, always awake and trying to get ahead of his neighbors.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
