Still, he hasn't come up with the stage business that would at least give the comedy a sense of visual invention.

But the level of visual invention is striking.

The movie incorporates some of the "Codex"'s flair for visual invention, an unsettling mixture of the gorgeous and the grotesque.

There is always visual invention, even when Bearden risked anecdote by striving for a heroic statement.

Keaton's films, filled with his visual invention and astonishing acrobatic grace, remain works of greatness.

The emphasis on visual invention didn't have to be diminished; it could have been-and often was-augmented.

On the contrary, respect for the capacity of the materials always wins out over daring visual invention, but a staggering technical imagination has also been summoned.

But if she were half as clever with words and narrative structure as she is with visual invention, there would be no stopping her.

"There is a moment when the identity of a magazine can change in one moment by a visual invention," Mr. Avedon said.

Funny, cruel, relentless; filmed with tremendous visual invention and an almost fetishistic attention to the minutiae of its imagined world.