All 4 Uses of
ingenuity
in
The Purloined Letter
- They consider only their own ideas of ingenuity; and, in searching for anything hidden, advert only to the modes in which they would have hidden it.†
- They are right in this much—that their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them, of course.†
- What is all this boring, and probing, and sounding, and scrutinizing with the microscope and dividing the surface of the building into registered square inches—what is it all but an exaggeration of the application of the one principle or set of principles of search, which are based upon the one set of notions regarding human ingenuity, to which the Prefect, in the long routine of his duty, has been accustomed?†
- ...I reflected upon the daring, dashing, and discriminating ingenuity of D—
*ingenuity = ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
Definition:
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(ingenuity) the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways