Meanings of constructive ability in English

Up to the present they have shown no particular constructive ability.

In general, it may be said that they are quite far advanced in constructive ability.

Frank Merriwell was a person with a vivid imagination and great mechanical and constructive ability.

At its close the Italian genius presented Europe with its greatest triumph of constructive ability, the Papacy.

Moreover, their attitude was entirely negative, and they possessed little or no constructive ability of any kind.

Note the inventiveness of women, most of which goes to waste because they lack the wonderful constructive ability of men.

Twenty years earlier there had come to the throne of Macedonia a man of singular constructive ability and most definite ambition.

In short, the novelette reads like an amalgamation of Novalis without his philosophy, Waekenroder without his suggestiveness, and Tieck without his constructive ability.

For profound judgment and constructive ability, such as frequently become imperative in great crises are qualities which are not evolved through classical investigations.

The average American knows the Italian as immensely industrious, but perhaps is disinclined to credit him with great constructive ability or engineering genius.

It has been suggested that because his original profession was that of an architect, his constructive ability may have been carried over to another craft.

I should imagine that there has seldom, if ever, been an important political party which has exhibited so little constructive ability as the Irish Parliamentarians.

The measure which he carried through was the famous "Crimes Act," perhaps the best monument that there is of his legislative and constructive ability.

Scott, it may be said, was another capitalist whose work has so often been fulsomely described as being that of "a remarkable constructive ability."

In fact, these engines might be regarded as the culmination of his constructive abilities.