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How to use genius in a sentence

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Though critics saw him as quick-tempered, harsh, abrupt, and arbitrary, practically everyone recognized his genius as a chief of staff.
If there were a creative genius in us all, then we would all be sketching birds and dying of starvation.
Some of the songs were straight from the top of the genius pile, while others were just crass, crude and downright stupid.
Their next work is the soundtrack for a film about French footballing genius Zidane.
His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, polymaths and mystics.
Kevin Pollack invests his version with the subtle genius of a masterful character study.
In Sri Lanka, he consulted the genius of a place whose climate and culture he knew intimately.
This bundle is a stroke of genius in our minds, and means that you can decide what content you want your kids to use.
Prolific playwriting genius Alan Ayckbourn has another of his creations on the Malvern stage next week.
The organizational genius of Lazare Carnot was brought into play to help turn a revolutionary rabble into a properly equipped fighting force.
Some see that as a kind of visionary genius that goes beyond limited piecemeal approaches.
The exhibition is testimony to the common themes that bind them and yet the unmistakeably individual genius and style of each.
It would not take a genius to know that the lovelorn singer just dropped the f-bomb.
You can analyze a Mozart piano concerto note by note and still not fathom the genius of the whole piece.
They believe that the imprint of God's creative genius is upon every human being.
His genius was recognized during his life, and his work has become immortal.
Her genius was to give a sense of immediacy to visions constructed slowly as works of art.
The genius resides in the system, not in a string of Ubermensch at the top gazing in horror at the imbecile masses.
There are highlights in the film, including the hysterically funny mad genius director.
A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing.
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Here Burke's true creative genius originated such staples as salmon bacon, pastrami salmon, and swordfish chops.
Yet, he has always carried the Indian badge with pride and his genius with humility.
We would probably prefer that the opera star or the sporting hero or the genius be suitably humble, modest, and generally endearing.
This fact was not lost on the English mechanical genius John Harrison, who first pushed chronometrical precision into this ethereal realm.
Even if it was the swages that caused the damage it does not take a genius to figure out the physics behind what would be most likely to cut.
Does the fact that Aristotle was a slave-owner who judged the sun to move round the earth diminish the genius of his poetic theory?
In the mind of a desperate prisoner you sometimes find genius that is seldom recognized in more polite society.
To some, he is blessed by genius and is a worthy holder of the world record number of Test match wickets.
Meanwhile the German Sturm und Drang movement had initiated the worship of Shakespeare as a natural genius whose works were the supreme antidote.
Nash is a certifiable genius and a certifiable paranoid schizophrenic who we watch go through shock treatments and delusions galore.
It is obvious, I suppose, that only after Napoleon could the cults of the hero, of hero worship and of the genius take full form.
We had three girls and I learned a lot from Marc because he's very detail-oriented, a genius in business, international.
A gallery of production stills and lobby cards show his lighting and composition genius in a still-life context.
Set that against the growth in the elderly population and it doesn't take a genius to see that there's a problem.
My brother in law, who fancies himself as a bit of a genius at crosswords had a go and got stuck.
We are told often how close to genius his work is, how unhappy he is, and how remorseful.
On the other hand Bach, despite his cantankerously quarrelsome nature, is seen as a genius superior even to Mozart.
Battling against painful odds to remain in the game the little genius still plays off a scratch handicap hoping to comeback to competitive golf.
And who was the P.T. Barnum-like genius who fused the word Confederate with the non-word rama?
Our intellectual fate is no longer subject to the moods of speculators, in whose thought genius comes dangerously close to mania.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Reynolds invoked the genius of the Venetian painters like Titian to support his argument, and also Rubens.
His genius is pure beauty, a creative flame burning so brightly we can hardly look at it.
Tommy is a former bridge-and-tunnel guy, not a genius but smart enough to hold a job as a TV producer.
It also sanctifies the idea of the reclusive, solitary genius at the expense of the artist who engages with society and the world at large.
It also drew upon his undoubted gifts as a poet and his intuitive genius as an historian.
Leaving no pixel unturned, entrepreneurial genius has found endless ways to innovate on behalf of the eternal quest for more capital.
He was fascinated with the idea of whether genius is the result of nature or nurture.
To be fair, Miles was a genius and it is unrealistic to expect that sort of creative energy from anybody.
Eventually he found an agreeable home in the University of Utah where his inventive genius could work unhindered.
The great genius behind this storyline was that Ward was slyly biting the hand that fed him.
The Sikh history, in all its varied phases, unfolds the genius of the Sikhs as a dynamic community.
The lack of artillery was made good by the boldness, initiative, and genius of a single individual.
And he was kind of a genius at making the machine parts to put that plane together.
Her father is the acknowledged genius of the sitar, and one of the world's most renowned Indian musicians and composers.
It is a mouse deer of the genius Tragulus, but mouse deer don't have antlers.
The genius he displayed was of a scientific order, his talent was of an investigatory habit, and his curiosity was unappeasable.
You could say my motivators were class camaraderie, team competition, Beethoven's genius and test evasion.
George was the genius thespian who brought Robot Monster to life, as well as hundreds, if not thousands of other stage and screen simians.
A silver-tongued charmer with celluloid in his veins, he veers between boy-wonder genius and self-promoting charlatan.
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For years it seemed this talented tunesmith would continue to carry the torch for genuinely genius grunge guitar pop.
But Bobby was not just a crowd-pleaser, he was a fierce competitor, too, and a genius of a shotmaker.
He was a genius at creating special booby traps and tripwires, all sorts of custom-made devices designed to inflict maximum pain and damage.
Curiously, given Samuelsson's genius with fish, the meat dishes, like beef short ribs and an inventive rib-eye carpaccio, are much better.
It is in these moments of mirth that perhaps the true genius of the Celtic Tenors is captured.
However, this movie lacks the touch of genius that turns a mere thriller into a transcendentally surreal film.
Attitudes towards the relationship between genius and madness are a good example.
It just makes me wonder who the heck has called him a genius to start with?
Being the genius that I am, I decided that I would try and bend them back into shape, only to snap the arm completely off.
Her uncle had become quite a genius with bacteria and microbiology as gross as the subject is.
Some theologians have a positive genius for cloaking sensible ideas in impenetrable jargon.
Later, as she declined into alcoholism, old age, and general battiness, her genius itself rusted over.
One of modern art's most fascinating figures, Salvador Dali was a self-confessed genius who took surrealism to startling extremes.
It doesn't take a genius to realise that, where possible, they will maximise that profit.
The man of genius can operate rationally, after careful consideration, from conviction, but all that happens only secondarily.
He relied on his own innate genius in his lifelong quest to uncover the marvels of Nature.
George on the camera is a genius and Frank on sound could make a chalk scratch on a blackboard sound like music.
Australia won the first and last Tests at a canter, but had no answer to Lara's genius in the middle two.
This is because I decided that I am clearly such a genius that I do not need external help from silly Mensa professors.
The band were supposed to be the saviours of rock and while the album was good, it was far from being the utter genius we had been promised.
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York Minster, 250 years in the building, is an awesome display of the creative genius of man.
Correspondingly, would Rommel have achieved even greater success with his tactical genius and an endless supply of tanks and fuel?
As well as rural Forties class culture, with a Northern tang, the other influence is Heath Robinson, that genius inventor of mad machines.
The auteur's true genius lies in his ability to combine high art with popular culture.
The sheer genius of the disc though is how quickly it goes from a light pop sound to a deep, rumbling industrial sound.
After all, the quiet genius with a wicked wit knows which side his bread is buttered on.
One imagines an arty, cultured childhood, with a genius typing away furiously at the top of the house.
Haydn's musical genius created the perfect accompaniments and arrangements for the folk melodies, elevating them to first-class lieder.
But Romantics, and modernists after them, needed to believe that genius in its own time is always neglected, misunderstood, etc.
He came to represent the archetypal Romantic artist, outlawed by a corrupt society, whose genius bore comparison with Shakespeare.
He felt that the genius of literary artists was documented in their openness to the unusual.
The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis.
It was a match to remember, a player with a touch of genius restoring a dampened Wimbledon to its rightful place as the epitome of tennis.
Bob manages to make very obvious things sound like genius by stressing his words and using his arms for emphasis.
The Indian genius has applied the nutty richness of highly reduced milk to virtually every vegetable puree and flavouring.
Here is a true genius whose talent has somehow never got the kind of recognition it so richly deserves, Nandy says.
And so on to the German lieder, epitomized by Schubert's extraordinary genius in creating songs and song cycles.
Jacques, a farmer's son with near genius level IQ, used his knowledge of the antiquarian book trade to avoid suspicion for years.
I did reword it a bit, see if you can tell where my creative genius improved the story, ok?
But basically, I want the American literary genius to reshape and revivify the American political genius.
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However, his genius was so great that other than French people forgot his dishonesty and he began life anew in his native place.
It all seems so simple from this perspective. I could get used to this evil genius lark.
Blair's flash of genius came after watching the traditional Monday night American football game in a sports bar.
However, he never doubted his genius as a Renaissance man or the importance of his work for future generations.
But his true genius lies in synthesis, in an amalgamated vision he can express in the language of computers.
All that credibility and yet Oldham is one musical genius who arrived at his calling by accident.
No, he possesses the real genius that only our greatest comedians can lay claim to.
Creative genius often seems to be ladled out to those who are manifestly unworthy of it.
His genius lay in the gaining and exercise of power and by the age of thirty, he acted as effective ruler of England when the King was overseas.
However, we have to wait till the reign of Shah Jahan for the full genius of Mughal architecture to come forth.
His versatile genius and all-round knowledge elevated him to a position second only to that of Aristotle.
In contrast, German Kultur included knowledge, education, civilization, national genius and the arts all of which expressed the national soul.
The young man soon finds he can stay on the ship by playing the piano, after proving himself a genius on the instrument and wowing the captain.
The Producers is a worthy comedic effort that hints at Brooks' genius to follow, but the screenplay is ultimately the best thing about this film.
And it wasn't made any easier by the fact that the genius works like a horse and that the workhorse made himself into a genius during the season.
Aboard, it has every piece of electronic wizardry scientific genius can invent and money can buy.
It takes a kind of genius to alienate both major political parties in the space of a month.
She's a mechanical genius and yet her common sense and memory recall is nil.
All agreed he is a true genius and a real perfectionist with timing and sound.
The Romantic movement renewed the interest in the mad genius that had been cultivated by Renaissance Platonism but dampened by the age of reason.
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A bad idea does not become a stroke of genius just because you place it on the web.
Between them, these two stories give an indication of the range in which his creative genius worked.
Chicago is 25 miles long and 10 miles wide, and its flat and spacious setting allows architects to display their genius to advantage.
Witnesses to the act of criminal genius called police who, so far, have only charged the man with theft.
And it is quite apparent to me, in retrospect, that without Mostel's comic genius this might be a very wearisome play to watch.
It was a remarkable achievement and was hailed genius after his predicted crash of 1929 occurred.
Now it doesn't take a genius to figure out if I put in 100 watts and get out 350 watts I am getting a lot of free energy.
She said they were jealous of her genius and resented her because she was a woman.
The first ace is the maverick genius of young James McFadden, now of Everton.
He was, in spite of all his genius and accomplishment, a troubled man seeking his own truth.
The only problem, of course, is that it's never a good idea to use a genius as your warm-up act.
I fell short of genius category by a full fifty points, barely enough to qualify me to sharpen their pencils.
I would like to shake the hand of the genius of this make-work brainchild.
The boy genius Geithner turned into an absent-minded professor when he filled in his tax returns.
Or not live next to that special brand of genius who goes all in on the gun-cleaning with ammo in the chamber?
Is it also genius and a classic work about the struggle between civilization and barbarism, between good and evil?
Chef to the stars Juliano is the gourmet genius who has created a diet that he claims has taken years off Demi's appearance and inches off her waist.
There has been considerable debate among feminist scholars concerning how to assess the values associated with genius and artistic accomplishment.
However, the true genius of cit takes place before a 911 call is ever made.
In the process, he has been hailed as a prescient genius and dismissed as a rabid extremist, but almost always recognised as a novelist of great power and originality.
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Now, it doesn't take a genius to spot the glaring hole here.
Even in death, the comic genius has raised a laugh among his adoring fans.
This genius site, with copywriter Tom Ford and other fashion icons supporting it, gives you Dapper Dons options aplenty.
His playing has the afflatus of genius and the purity of a child.
But the essence of Disraeli's genius as a courtier was his ability to make it all about her.
But here they failed to reckon with the talents of Archimedes or to foresee that in some cases the genius of one man is far more effective than superiority in numbers.
In that case the device was to put the genius in opposition to a majority of established cultural tastes and codes.
They can be sapped of war fever by the diplomatic courage and genius displayed by Kissinger and Nixon four decades ago.
Roger can close a business deal, read a room, and charm a dinner table, but Don is the creative genius behind all those deals.
Jazz is now entrenched in high schools and colleges, and gets honored with Pulitzer Prizes and genius grants.
Great popular music is far more than that, and if we knew what was good for us we'd be aspiring to its genius rather than dragging it down to our humdrum level.
The paintings, ephemera, wall texts, and audio tour construct a story of an obsessive, gifted genius who lived for love and art.
This poem is a moment of antic genius in an otherwise rather solemn book.
Disappointingly, even though you can at times detect a family likeness to its genius predecessors, The IT Crowd's opening gambit suggests it could be the runt of the litter.
Gerry is philosophical about his legendary likeness to the wayward footy genius Bestie, which is a constant source of amusement to drinkers in Skelton.
Small and with a fishtail and fins, he is a goalkeeping genius defying physical laws.
Egos flare, tempers simmer over, and occasionally true culinary genius and ingenuity is glimpsed.
But there were moments of expected genius on it worthy of Grammy consideration.
Using a highly scientific personality test, the boffins behind this genius idea will match you up with one of six potential mates who will then romance you via email.
McGruder is the creative genius behind The Boondocks, a five-year-old comic strip that honors no sacred cows and eviscerates politicians of all stripes.
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To retire without attempting the crime of the century would leave a criminal genius with a maddening irritation, not unlike the phantom itch of an amputated leg.
But the show is hilarious and heart-warming, genius in its writing, and innovative in its story-telling.
He was described to me as a hyperintelligent creative genius with various issues.
I spent a few hours scratching my head and looking for a cryptic code which might shed light on where this maverick genius is getting his ideas from.
The guy has a genius for self-promotion that is beyond belief.
These are the songs that'll make people tap their feet and drink melancholically but not realize the twisting genius lurking within until generations later.
I'm sure the genius that was Joseph Mallord William Turner, landscaping master of light, tone and shade would fully endorse some of the previous groundbreaking entries.
But overall, he greatly admires Hindu genius and metempsychosis.
When read as a literary whole, Genesis 1-2 posits a world that is divinely beneficent and bountiful, in no need of human genius to improve or control it.
Young Thomasina turns out to have been a natural genius who died before she could finish her equations.
In 2000, she was named a MacArthur genius fellow for her work on civil rights and immigration.
But the genius of George Carlin comes when you get past the titillation and shock value.
We respect the genius and ingenuity, not only the Korean film but the Japanese manga, the original source.
When it came to scoring goals, from long-range, from headers, overhead kicks, close in poachers, Law was a genius when it came to putting a ball in the back of the net.
The writer wants to believe his genius is arriving, pristine, unmediated, to his readers all over the world.
Harshly criticised at first by the moral majority, most protests were eventually forgotten as its genius came to be recognised as a vital part of US popular culture.
His booming voice was complemented by a genius for body English.
His footballing genius was never questioned, but back home he was known as an egomaniac who was undisciplined, uncontrollable and prone to flights of folly.
All three episodes starring Stellan Skarsgard as the tempestuous genius director Werner Vollstedt made Adrian look small.
He was born to be an actor, and when he conscientiously set himself to a task he could blend his genius with a thoroughly sound and intelligent craftsmanship.
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It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Downey's character is on to something when it comes to panning for Oscar gold.
At least with Mozart there are a substantial number of works of unsurpassable genius rising from the routine mediocrity of about three quarters of his output.
The movie turns into a mindless gorefest, the genius character suddenly suffers a cataclysmic brain cramp, and the action begins to resemble Alien light.
The welcome presence of sonic genius Jim O'Rourke joined them on stage.
But he was a revolutionist, an often shabby, poverty-stricken genius with a taste for the bottle.
Do you like him frozen in time as a precocious boy genius doctor with a ridiculous name?
The most profound truths are often the simplest ones, and Wallace was a genius at revealing the simplicity of profundity.
The faux thriller spoofery goes silly-side-up and Steve's boisterous young assistant isn't given enough to do, but this is a small price to pay for the genius that is Brooks.
As the number of files grew I drafted in the support of the genius behind my web site, and he started delivering the sprauncy graphics that make up the operating system.
Picasso's the genius in question, and thankfully he's a big ham.
It very clearly displays the genius of a veteran professor obviously skilled in making the inscrutable scrutable to generations of Air Force Academy cadets.
More than a ringer, it is yet another manifestation of the American genius at finding loopholes.
Hunter was close to a genius at headlines and subheads for his pieces.
His place in the pantheon of popular culture seems equally secure, but to applaud him as a design genius is to misunderstand and overvalue both the man and his work.
He's maybe not so much a genius himself, or actually have the technical skill to develop computers, but he's probably a guy who recognizes superstars.
There's nothing to say about Erik Benson except that his essays are chock-full of genius ideas, and you should read everything he's written for the last month.
His genius as a handler of horseflesh has long been acknowledged.
The genius of the paterfamilias was honored in familial worship as a household god and was thought to perpetuate a family through many generations.
He has a genius for creating emotional drama that is devoid of pathos.
So when we look at genius or child prodigies or musical geniuses or idiot savants, these are clues to the mystery of that infinitely creative mind that we can tap into.
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She may be illiterate and vapid, but next to him, she's a regular idiot savant marketing genius who cashed in on her B-list celebrity the moment it was about to expire.
Cutting loose from the unsung genius is, however, his only chance at real fulfillment, real love, real mastery, transient and imperfect as they are.
He was a prolific book illustrator, and as few other artists had the power to concentrate the impress of his genius in even the smallest and slightest of his works.
Chef to the stars Juliano is the gourmet genius who has created a diet that he claims has taken years off her appearance and inches off her waist.
Speer admires Hitler to the point of hero-worship and Walker plays him as a gregarious, personable genius with a commanding presence and a quick wit.
It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief.
He was probably the only director of genius to emerge from the Hollywood system during the '60s, the most insecure period of its history since the coming of sound.
It doesn't take a genius to spot the teams that will finagle to get him.
You may be genius but what weirdo has fish fingers in a pie?
And just as artists' styles range from Norman Rockwell's homespun Americana to Andy Warhol's loud pop art, each of these skaters is genius in a different way.
She was a genius and deserves a posthumous award of some kind.
Salicional, viole, and octave coupler produce a satisfactory string chorus which is yet not so vivid as to be inconsistent with the genius of the Willis organ.
Using that measure, photographer and creative genius Rich Clarkson is worth a gazillion words.
Such is the genius of our free-market system, which galvanizes both artists and charlatans.
Ivor Novello was a genius and no doubt he was one of the world's greatest impresarios.
It was both indefensible and undefendable, a stroke of tactical genius and beggared the question why nobody else had thought of it.
Here''s a genius who can drive big themes through complex accompaniments with aweinspiring effect.
Even the beneficient rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all.
This bedrummed and betrumpeted man of genius cannot read the A B a b of the human emotions.
Bright, radiant, glad eyed, clean souled seraphim, Whose genius would at once from heaven bethrust, Dared they to purity unfaithful prove.
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I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages.
You demonize the evil genius and you make the president look weak.
The genius of Puritanism, with all its forefixed concatenation of misdeeds and punishments, had served me out properly.
Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works.
In the 19th century, critical admiration for Shakespeare's genius often bordered on adulation.
Perhaps the most extreme example of insane genius is Carlo Gesualdo, the 16th century madrigalist who was also a sadomasochistic murderer.
The genius of the confession is its room for high churchmen and the most fervent evangelical.
This widely available dictionary gave short definitions of words like genius and taste, and was clearly influenced by the Enlightenment movement.
Napoleon has become a worldwide cultural icon who symbolises military genius and political power.
Led by the evil genius Michael Gira, Swans are post punkers who make dark, unsettling, well, post punk.
Jazz arose in the early 1900s as the African genius for polyrhythm merged with European instrumentation and melody.
The genius of late capitalism is the development of strategies for managing and profiting by its own excess.
There was a raffishness to his genius and a quality of being his own man that set him apart entirely.
Very early in life, Turing showed signs of the genius that he was later to display prominently.
But Mack took the copycat level-headedly, quoted by Chortle news as saying, 'this Australian comedy genius is being unfairly treated.
In many cases these spirits are associated with the natural world, for instance as genius loci, fairies, and elementals.
The mixture of genius and dilettantism of both men shut me up for the moment, and whetted my curiosity.
Russell viewed Wittgenstein as a genius and a successor who would continue his work on logic.
Though he is never called to testify, Key is the genius loci of this suit.
Jenner and King believed Barrett to be the creative genius of the band, and decided to represent him and end their relationship with Pink Floyd.
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Sir Robert's genius was in finding, purchasing and preserving these ancient documents.
Without being a genius of the first class, he was an intelligent, prudent, and safe minister.
But as I noted above, this may be jaw droppingly stupid from a distributor's viewpoint, it is insidious genius from corporate.
Among them were 72 letters written by Frenchman RenAe Descartes, the founding genius of modern philosophy and analytic geometry.
The Cinematheque Francaise had the genius idea to bring over this exhibit.
Tom Swift, the hero in a series of pre-World War II action novels, was the genius inventor of whizbang technology.
What might appear to be talentless dross to one, can be viewed as gifted genius to another.
Perhaps her genius is best appreciated in her sly, aphoristic brevity.
Ed Harris is OTT as the troubled genius while Diane Kruger is a little too simperingly annoying as Anna Holtz, his muse.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
This genius mascara comes in a black lacquered tube with a silver ring engraved with the logomania motif.
All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.
There are several upstarts, who, without the genius to invent a style, have been copying yours, and trying to steal your thunder.
The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.
And this song is just absolute genius and totally universal.
We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth.
A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
In 1729, Nader Shah, a chieftain and military genius from Khorasan, successfully drove out and conquered the Pashtun invaders.
Lost in wonder over Andre's endless soppiness, javelin genius Fatima Whitbread works herself up into a camera-hogging fervour.
Ancient Sri Lanka is marked for its genius in hydraulic engineering and architecture.
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The Treasury was entrusted to the pococurante capacity of Grafton, the Exchequer to the erratic genius of Charles Townshend.
This widely available dictionary gave short definitions of words like genius and taste and was clearly influenced by the Enlightenment movement.
His fantastically physical performance convinces you of his character's genius and the play catches fire whenever he's on stage.
His bridal couture collection The Mulmul Masquerade was a bespoke line of creative genius replete with handcrafted ensembles.
Downey's own roots genius turns his musicological attention to California songwriters for this moody, slightly eccentric cover collection.
His genius is to fuse opposites with an imperceptible sleight of hand, to blend the surreal with the real, and the caricature with the natural.
You don't have to be a genius to see that this plan will never work.
He eventually sent it to Pound, who instantly saw it as a work of genius and submitted it to Poetry.
While acknowledging his freaky genius it demonised him as an antitype by which to define itself.
Frederick Deknatel on the vulgar Kafkaesque genius of Sonallah Ibrahim.
One would expect squalor or heaviness, some implicit genius loci, to color McCarty's modest American boxes, but they are deadpan and affectless.
Nate Silver, the nebbishy statistical genius who conquered poker, baseball and then politics, was the man of the hour on Tuesday.
The inhabitants of this planet can get the atmosphere and mysterious genius loci of many places in the world without leaving their couch.
The overall process was professionally managed by genius loci architekturcontor, Dipl.
We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.
If things were fair, neglected Liverpudlian genius Michael Head's warmly nostalgic songs and heartfelt delivery would be familiar from coast to coast.
Marketing genius Seth Godin sat down with SUCCESS Publisher Darren Hardy to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing today's bootstrapping entrepreneurs.
In this regard, one is especially drawn to such seductive masters as Barthelemy Prieur, an Italianizing genius in the employ of the courts of Henry IV and Marie de Medicis.
I argued that the genius of the physics community would find a cheaper way to float the top quark in electric and magnetic fields long enough to take its picture.
The genius loci of these headquarters suited the rare items on display.
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But it was part of Shakespeare's genius that he knew precise depths to which different slights and paranoias affected people at different stages of their lives.
The range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the 18 patents granted in his name alone and the 12 he shared with his collaborators.
Stravinsky's genius developed through phases of recapitulation.
The influential American novelist and critic Theodore Dreiser rescued the novel, referring to it as a work of genius and comparing it to a Beethoven symphony.
By eleven years old, the young genius had outlearned most of his teachers.
However, he already gave strong indication of the peculiarly Russian genius for naturalness or realism, and was a true Russian in his simplicity of style.
British historian Max Hastings says there is no question that as a military genius Napoleon ranks with Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar in greatness.
The mechanical genius of the author was not inferior to his erudition.
Give Walsh credit, he takes a balanced approach in this handsomely illustrated volume between those who think Webber a genius and others who think his stuff is dreck.
The event will feature George Widener, the gifted autistic savant, genius and calendar artist and also 'Anna' who is equally known for his passion to help the underprivileged.
Along Hammond's lines, Raymond Williams explains art as a set of practices influenced by broad cultural factors rather than simply the ideas of genius alone.
Koboi is the perfect example of their genius turned to madness.
But David was a genius too, and listening again, I realised the themes were actually quite beautifully complicated, the instruments were in a sort of arhythmic harmony.
Shakespeare combined poetic genius with a practical sense of the theatre.
The basic premise of the show was that rollmop herring-loving England manager Sven Goran Eriksson is not the great tactical genius many believe him to be.
He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.
I'd pull out my cards and card-boxes, and the bonus genius or the wooden doll, and then I'd spread a nice clean cloth on the table, and then I'd go to work.
Curb Your Enthusiasm's'' peculiar genius is in how David manages to take a seeming disparate lot of subplots and ingeniously enmesh them by episode's end.
Croce's early treatise... was resolutely grounded in the identification of intuition and expression, of genius and taste, and in the amorality and arationality of all art.
She's made a life for herself as a resourceful barkeep, and hacks for goods on the black market with her best friend Wynne, a computer genius and part-time stripper.

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