She speaks with such goofy, deadpan earnestness and verbal inventiveness that you wish she would go on for another hour.

It was full of characteristic verbal inventiveness [...] now used to accompany detailed descriptions of natural forms, in a manner surely influenced by Dorothy.

More than anything, however, Joycean has come to denote a form of extreme verbal inventiveness which tends to push the English language towards multi-lingual polysemy or impenetrability.

Mr. Beatty's verbal inventiveness rarely flags, but his satire slips over the border into a kind of nihilistic slapstick.

Your verbal inventiveness astonishes me, Janko.

His best known work, experimental and heavily influenced by the verbal inventiveness of James Joyce, was published in 1983 under the title Larva.

Mr. Spencer, for all his verbal inventiveness, has to work too hard to keep his narrative flowing coherently.

The expansive metaphors, the relaxed use of exclamation points and hyperbole, the verbal inventiveness, all sustain the conversational mode.

Sardonic humor and verbal inventiveness enliven this strange, ultimately sad tale of a young man wandering through "the terrible emptiness of a life exiled from love."

The surreal cast of characters and Dylan's verbal inventiveness also represented an innovation in Top 10 singles.