Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.    From Wordnik.com.  [How My Ideological Opponents Postmodernism Killed Poetry « Gerry Canavan] Reference

The telling of the tale 112 a. The re-creative method of story-telling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

Bishop, too, revealed a tendency to re-creative misprision from early on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision] Reference

We may call this familiar effect by the less familiar name of re-creative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

Free women and men put their faith in a creative reality that is re-creative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Authority in the Spirit: Developing a doctrine of the liberal church.] Reference

He began a re-creative process on the earth long ago to benefit the introduction of Man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, "Evolution News": correct this! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In this re-creative act the impulsion gains form and solidity, and old material is given new life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference

The previous motherlodes of operatic adaptation — theater and literature — are both re-creative media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

His re-creative work was such as to create something really new using his own original not merely copied work.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

The only difference is, that in one case the re-creative activity is exercised by thinking through symbols, while in the other case it is employed without the use of a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

Out of the emotional turmoil of the flight from Europe, trans-Atlantic migration, and translation to new world poverty, there arose the inventive, re-creative power of Yiddish theater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celia Adler.] Reference

When the child re-experiences the life of the story as has been described, his mental realization of it will be re-creative, and his reading the tale aloud afterwards will be just as much a form of re-creative activity as his re-telling of the tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

For the most part, Greek theory tended to explain the experience of works of art in terms of responses to stimuli, without even hinting that the perceiver entered into the relation with the work of art in a productive and creative, rather than in a reproductive and re-creative way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

A really re-creative recreation I sought for years, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

Just to surround the re-creative instinct with glamour and render it æsthetic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man and Maid] Reference

It all goes back to the re-creative instinct and through what this manifests itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man and Maid] Reference

If we pray in our weakness and blindness for what we may not have, there is, nevertheless, a wonderful re-creative effect within us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Untroubled Mind] Reference

Drayton has merely taken the story as he found it, without a thought of submitting its dross to the alchemy of the re-creative imagination of the poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battaile of Agincourt] Reference

David Cromer's staging is a re-creative landmark, at once arrestingly original and fundamentally faithful in its approach to the author's well-loved text.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference

St. Gregory VII., the second of the great re-creative forces of that time, was of the Tuscan peasantry, Etrurian in type, therefore Italian in speech, by name Hildebrand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"] Reference

For with sensitive spirits – and they are the only ones who know the highest pinnacles of love – periods of separation and solitude can be revivifying and re-creative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Married Love: or, Love in Marriage] Reference

If he makes himself wholly a working power, he isolates himself from the refreshment and re-creative power of the living universe in which he toils; in that isolation he may do many things with feverish haste, but he can do nothing with commanding ability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Work and Culture] Reference

Like some foolish rustic, who, finding a diamond, sees no difference between it and a bit of glass, you, with the whole Universe sweeping around you in mighty beneficent circles of defensive, protective and ever re-creative power, -- power which is yours to use and to control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

Pressure on us because we are all growing ... sales and marketing etc. but ...hence the reason you will see break even in re-creative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cypress Semiconductor CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha] Reference

Such is the essence of re-creative genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Compelling Stagings That Serve Two Great Plays Well] Reference

The re-creative method of story-telling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference

Story-telling, an ancient art, 91-93; principles governing, 94; teacher's preparation for, 94-102; rules for, 94-102; presentation in, 102-119; voice in, 103-04; breathing in, 104-05; gesture in, 105-06; re-creative method of, 113-17; return from child, in, 119-54; child's part in, 121-25.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference