He discarded many Baroque era authors as uncreative pedants and especially despised German theatre. It cannot be a rote, uncreative variation on the earlier, underlying work. Cultural traditions are often imagined as perpetuated as stable ideals by uncreative actors. Workers between ages forty and sixty were tolerable because they were "merely uncreative". She interprets this as a criticism of the corruption of Abstract Expressionism by uncreative painters. His plan for direct and overwhelming force was initially criticized in Washington as uncreative. "Uncreative Writing&colon; Managing Language in the Digital Age" (2011).