How To Use Genius In A Sentence
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There was something captivating about this man, who dedicated much of his time to his artistic talents, his creative genius, and photographic exhibits.
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Some see that as a kind of visionary genius that goes beyond limited piecemeal approaches.
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The exhibition is testimony to the common themes that bind them and yet the unmistakeably individual genius and style of each.
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Yeah, he's a pop genius, but his cool, affable swagger and clever repartee are the perfect complement to the more extroverted, outgoing personalities of Dahle and Ms. Case.
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He has often been characterised as a madman or Satanic genius.
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There is a touch of genius in your plans to restyle a house.
The Sun
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Judging from these movies, Mark Wilkinson is evidently some kind of caecilian-hunting guru genius: with just two lazy, shallow strokes of a spade, he was able to discover two caecilians in their native habitat.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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The hermit, the bachelor uncle, the reclusive genius, all have their place; I think it was once more recognised than today, when everyone is supposed to be good at relationships even if they're no good at anything else.
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While SocGen management has called Kerviel a trader "without genius" who was "acting alone," French bloggers are touting his "lucidity" and bravery for standing up to a system that "brings up its shady dealings only when they are unfavorable to them.
France’s New Anti-Hero
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It is a still a point of hot debate with skiers as to whether Les Arcs is a work of architectural genius, or simply a hideous alpine eyesore.
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His films, as a result, are often repulsive; yet they contain the occasional flash of genius that may redeem the more unpalatable aspects of his work.
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Although he had no actual plans, he knew that his road would be made dear and so he waited, getting by on talent and saving his genius for when his name would be called.
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This, which has been called the ostracism of a saintly genius, undoubtedly was due to his former friends, Ward and Manning.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Created by novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes was an investigative genius who could routinely assess seemingly random clues and solve the mystery.
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he isn't stupid, but he isn't exactly a genius either
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As one partook in the invitation to ‘push buttons to rock out,’ even the most unmusical of people could become genius music makers.
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History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
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While still at school she was clearly a budding genius.
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He was of a mild and cheerful temper, generous to the extent of his means, and of an inventive genius; and his conduct after marriage was irreproachable.
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It doesn't take genius to versify a literal translation.
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According to the book, the familiar image of a saintly, eccentric genius was carefully cultivated.
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Shipping Girl Genius (and Other Trivial Matters) "Although strong drink is a mocker, I find that I need to be mocked.
Archive 2009-01-01
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There should be a return to selective education because not everyone are equal and I defy anyone to teach a class where the abilities range from genius level to non assessable and full fill the needs of each child.
Is someone who left University with a Third Class degree the person to go to for Maths advice
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German's work; but what perhaps the world calls charlatanism in him is really only the reaction of genius when it comes into conflict with the brutal obstinacy of real life.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories.
Tintin & Co.
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We had a high opinion of his mechanical genius, and generally held that the Chief ‘knew something bad of him,’ and on pain of divulgence enforced Phil to be his bondsman.
Reprinted Pieces
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The moment somebody thinks they've nailed the grand alchemy that makes Dali a genius somebody else came along and offers a new, kookier explanation.
The Birth of Girma Dali
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_merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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I should have realised that genius, as some bright spark in the office said, has a lot to do with genes.
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Materialists who hold that the mind is a complex physical system deny that it is possible for there to be an Evil Genius world, since, on their view, your mind could not possibly exist in a matterless world.
Dr. Nishad
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There are only a handful of entrepreneurs who doted on Steve Jobs as publicly as Masayoshi Son , the founder and chief executive of Japan's Internet and mobile carrier Softbank Corp. In the last few years, Mr. Son has compared the late Apple CEO to Leonardo da Vinci and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while labeling him a "genius" and a "god.
Softbank Founder Masayoshi Son: The 'Next Steve Jobs'?
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He's the evil genius behind the biggest political con-trick in history.
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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.
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The sane people of the world saw it purely as a piece of comic genius, and showered awards upon the badly-drawn comedy.
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Layering jewelry can be mystifying, which is why this single piece composed of rhinestones, faux pearls, beads, and chains is so genius.
CNN.com
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No one is born a genius.Just keep on doing what you like and that itself is a talent.
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Amy boasted that her son was a genius.
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Genius is formed in quiet, character in the strenm of life.
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I sat just behind the composer and felt in the presence of a creative genius, transported into other worlds.
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Part of his genius as a writer is that he reminds us that we are not atomized, anonymous beings in modern life; we affect others in all kinds of ways, all the time.
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Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness.
Microsoft Slumps As Apple Trumps
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Hosts David Asman and Liz Claman practically crowned the mayor an economic genius after he told them he's asking for wage concessions from labor groups, combining departments and trying to "disintermediate" bureaucracies.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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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.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Its technology is a stroke of genius that has been elaborated from the DS-164.
New Sofas from de Sede
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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The vessel is Eliza Dushku as Echo, who lives with the other "actives" in a spa-like "dollhouse" where they wait for a geek genius (Fran Kranz, more annoying than amusing) to implant them.
Fox's 'Dollhouse' is its own worst enemy
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Another genius discovery from Lebanon: "Trouver la perle rare est une chose, en trouver 26 en est une autre: une Libanaise a eu la surprise de sa vie en découvrant 26 graines nacrées dans une huître dans un restaurant de poisson et fruits de mer dans le sud du pays ." thanks Martin
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison
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Yet with the characteristic caution and modesty of true genius, he continued for nine years longer to reason and experimentalize upon what is now considered one of the simplest, as it is undoubtedly the most important known law of animal nature; and it was not till the year 1628, the fifty-first of his life, that he consented to publish his discovery to the world.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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You have a genius intellect and an awesome sense of humor.
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Quotables: She is by no means a literary genius …. .her excessive use of the word 'glower' ...
Evil Beet Gossip
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It isn't every comic genius who would undertake to send his talent into such painful places.
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Bittersweet is this journey to the wooden boatyards of Maine and the glorious work of ‘contemporary genius’ Joel White as he undertook what he knew would be his last wooden boat project.
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Leonardo's challenges as a genius with a great vision and also a human being who needs to pay his bills and feed his dependents is explored throughout the novel.
Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex: Questions
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Its importance was bound to diminish in proportion as the artistic genius began to emphasize the subjective conception of the object in preference to the object itself.
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Whose genius, like the sun, illumed the mighty realms of mind --
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832
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He is the presiding genius of the national spirit, a kind of Churchill in a neck ruff.
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Only Gitalis remained, faithful, cranky, dissatisfied genius that he was.
PAINT THE WIND
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This struggle with adversity and the resulting self-imposed isolation came to be seen as criteria for artistic genius.
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And it -- the real genius of this group at Oxford, I think, was the multidiscipline approach that they took.
The Mold in Dr. Florey�s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
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Criticism was in repute and flourished; commentaries, notes, and quibbles, abounded on the glorious works of genius that had been written aforetime.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Genius only means hard-working all one's life .
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The war also brings to us this disclosure, that the German autocracy is incapable of interpreting the British genius and understanding the true spirit of democracy.
Some War Revelations
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He has been variously described as a hero, a genius and a bully.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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The genius part is that height and rebound are fully adjustable courtesy of handgrips, you don't need tools to give the tortured undercarriage some breathing space on the road.
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Although this painting clearly bears the stamp of genius, we don't know who painted it.
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This may seem surprising to those who associate suicide with tortured geniuses like Ernest Hemingway and Vincent Van Gogh.
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His genius knows no limits.
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Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
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They called him a mastermind, they called him a genius… but he couldn't plan for this?
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He has joined to a fine genius all that can set him off and show him to advantage.
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A casual visitor might suppose it to be a temple dedicated to the genius of seediness.
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Counting these no-brainers as evidence of genius is absurd.
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There is no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence.
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For here is the genius of the Welsh fabulists in 21 compact episodes; where intense silliness, moral rigour, cavalier experiments and unforgettable tunes meet and make magic.
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The poem is re-created in glowing phrases — “A rich distilled perfume emanates from it like the breath of genius; a golden cloud envelops it; a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it, like the candied coat of the auricula”.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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He liked the stately monuments much more than he liked Gibbon or Ruskin; he loved their dignity; their unity; their scale; their lines; their lights and shadows; their decorative sculpture; but he was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all, the Virgin, the Woman, by whose genius the stately monuments of superstition were built, through which she was expressed.
The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
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It would appear that the recession — or “the reception” as my malapropism-prone pal Milly De Cabrol, the interior-decorating genius, keeps calling it — has increased, rather than decreased, the lemminglike stampede into the World of Fashion.
The Blond and the Short of It: Rachel Zoe Poaches My Fashion Week Klieg Lights
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But, of all the alleged verities, putting faith in a trainer's predictions for a chinny fighter whom bookies rate a 9-2 underdog against a 1-8 counter-punching genius is as perilous a challenge to logic and the fates as exists in sport.
Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
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Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial.
A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
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A post-mortem declaration of genius, by its very nature, falls on the deafened ears of the one who wishes to hear it the most.
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The privilege afforded famous scientists, Surowiecki argues, has undervalued the genius of the scientific ethos: its commitment to meritocracy.
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Genius often betrays itself into great errors.
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If you guess right you will appear to be a genius, if you guess wrong you will look foolish.
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Genius is formed in quiet, character in the strenm of life.
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The computer is not used as a genius assigned moronic tasks of accumulating data for the sheer electronic thrill of it.
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The genius of Lee's film is that it too exploits the American minstrel heritage - the Sambo performances are devilishly powerful - but with a careful emphasis.
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Mozart, at the age of three, learnt the clavecin by watching his sister play; a year afterwards he composed admirably, at the age of seven he played the violin at first sight without having had any teacher, and proved himself a composer of genius before he reached his twelfth birthday.
Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
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Schueler is one of the great forgotten geniuses of late 20 th-century art.
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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.
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Genius, it turns out, is a human quality, drawing on the world and expanding with it.
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Or imagine artificial intelligences which are geniuses at lying.
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Another great perk is that there are lots of copies of National Journal’s insiderish publications lying around and there’s always some nugget of genius in them.
Matthew Yglesias » Defense Contractors Versus Hobbyists
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It appears that he had a lively genius, but was unstable, erratic, and weak.
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In a lesser artist and person, we might have suspected mere affectation, or an attempt at playing the reluctant genius.
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But to accomplish this work, which we may also call diabolic, isn't an androgynous genius necessary?
Ferragus
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We would probably prefer that the opera star or the sporting hero or the genius be suitably humble, modest, and generally endearing.
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Mozart showed genius even at the age of six, when he began to compose minuets.
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Genius is hard work, someone once said. If this is not entirely correct, at least it is to a great extent right.
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Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said.
The Creators A Comedy
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Such a crude lie can surely be perceived by that genius of the animal kingdom, humans.
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As a girl, she did everything she was supposed to do: she was a Southern belle who married a dapper genius once he became rich enough to keep her.
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And so on to the German lieder, epitomized by Schubert's extraordinary genius in creating songs and song cycles.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert
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Greatest genius often lies concealed.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. Elbert Hubbard
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Meanwhile, I purpose to give a sketch of TIMROD'S life, which, though comparatively brief, and to an exceptional degree uneventful, is still of interest, as throwing much light upon the character of his verses, and the development of his genius.
The Poems of Henry Timrod.
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His mother believed unswervingly and indiscriminately in his genius.
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A maths 'citizenship test' may sound eccentric, but the margin between duncery and genius can be a mere decimal place.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a happy choice; my good genius, I suppose, for you see I was already fairly well read in modern science, and these old Greek philosophies set me thinking backwards, unwinding and unlearning, and getting at that eidolon which is not to be found in the mechanical heavens of this age.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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His genius is pure beauty, a creative flame burning so brightly we can hardly look at it.
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‘I think of myself as pretty much an undiscovered genius,’ quips the lugubrious 47-year-old.
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He's a genius with a cue in his hands, he's world No. 1, he's the defending champion, blinking you're missing, he's the rocket, Ronnie O'Sullivan!
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Rimbaud's poetic genius bloomed early.
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Plus, after marching through the Kübler-Ross stages of bad-review grief from "future generations will recognize my genius!" to "they're just jealous!" to sulky acceptance, we can console ourselves with the belief that professional critics bring to their work some instinctual empathy for the artists under review -- an understanding of the passion and elbow grease that go into any sustained work of creativity, no matter the quality of the final product.
Ben H. Winters: Why I Give Everything Five Stars
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The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve, however, if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar.
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Legal defenses of fandom find themselves tempted to valorize the individual genius of the fan author.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The child genius Artemis Fowl, whose criminal schemes have powered seven children's novels to bestsellerdom since 2001, selling 20m books around the world, is under a sentence of execution.
'Artemis Fowl' Series To Come To An End
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It also drew upon his undoubted gifts as a poet and his intuitive genius as an historian.
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XIV > i think being a pothead is a prerequisite at genius bars
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This is the mark of her real genius as a designer.
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What genius will be able to explain to us that the term Islamofascism is absurd because Islam itself, in its entirety, is a form of fascism?
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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But he was instead an apostle, an ad hoc theologian, a proclaimer, a charismatic who saw visions and spoke in tongues - and a religious genius.
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And your mom is a GENIUS for starting them Tupperware parties, huh?
Think Progress » Democrats Need To Pass A Comprehensive Health Care Bill
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But basically, I want the American literary genius to reshape and revivify the American political genius.
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B. primigenius (CPC98) mtDNA genome sequences and evidence of mtDNA heteroplasmy at nucleotide position 16,121 in the CPC98 aurochs sample.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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This giant-gift had been sent to him from Holland in recognition of his musical genius, especially in the matter of campanology.
My Life as an Author
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He believed that independence was the first duty of a literary man, and that true dignity consists in diligent labor rather than in indolent railing at fate and the scoffings of "uncomprehended" genius.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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He plays the hypercritic on himself, and starves his genius to death from a needless apprehension of a plethora.
Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
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How many congenitally unmusical youngsters were seduced into thinking they were congenital geniuses by Peel's enthusiastic, sinusitic, cod-Liverpudlian encouragement?
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I make no comment: anything I say would be otiose in the face of a work of such unique genius.
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The principal view in this disquisition is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced & enabled to attempt painting successfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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It is in these moments of mirth that perhaps the true genius of the Celtic Tenors is captured.
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We are told often how close to genius his work is, how unhappy he is, and how remorseful.
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Your idea was a stroke of genius.
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Of course it makes things a whole lot easier if a person can successfully market and sell their genius idea or product.
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I know no such thing as genius, it is nothing but labour and diligence.
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She has published over one hundred stories and poems in journals such as Gigantic, Gargoyle, Wigleaf, Annalemma, SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, Keyhole, and Everyday Genius.
How to Write Engaging Work in a Land of Rules
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Importantly, architecture began to concern the aspects of society, environment, technology and genius loci .
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Artists in many fields collaborate, as painters did in the Renaissance, before there was any guff about the artist as transcendent, solitary genius.
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Probable sad answer: cling to it as part of Britain's eccentric genius.
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Some ascribe this to his natural genius; while others think that incredible effort and toil produced these, to all appearances, easy and unlaboured results.
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The justly famous building that replaced it once more illustrated Wren's genius for combining classical and Gothic themes.
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However, we have to wait till the reign of Shah Jahan for the full genius of Mughal architecture to come forth.
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His genius lies in his ability to convey pure terror in his work.
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In fact, leaving aside the infinitesimally small world of math geniuses, there isn't any evidence that men are more intelligent than women, and no one seriously says so.
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It was in the third scene of the second act; Spiegelberg discoursing with Razmann, observes, "An honest man you may form of windle-straws; but to make a rascal you must have grist: besides, there is a national genius in it, a certain rascal-climate, so to speak.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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I hold no brief for Cherie Blair, but she had a kind of daffy genius for lifting the lid on the Blair marriage in ways that revealed far more than she realised.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The capacity for learning music had begun very early, but his wonderful gift of extemporisation, which gave his genius wings as well as voice, had only lately revealed itself at the time at which our story opens.
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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These sources were the printed cases; they expressed, in manifold dress, the few, everevolving and fructifying principles which constituted the genius of the common law.
A History of American Law
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He's a genius at organizing people.
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It's an unfair slur on a band who are capable of genius - as evidence I present 1990's Violator, m'lud - but Exciter, their first ‘clean’ album, will do nothing to change people's perception.
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In men of genius the moral sense is sometimes obtunded, if not altogether absent.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
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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.
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By thoughtful ruminating on their flowers, committing them to memory, pupils assimilated the wisdom of their predecessors, transforming their forbears 'words into their own. 15 Conducting this wisdom through one's own life revealed the unique inner genius (ingenium) of one's character.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The formative years of a genius are a perennially fascinating and tantalising subject.
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Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil.
A History of American Christianity
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He is a refreshingly normal kind of genius.
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This particular editor saw genius in the works where meticulous historical research combined with a quality of writing that breathed new life into the dusty genre of ‘historical fiction.’
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Are you going to tell me now that they're geniuses and I can learn trig faster by listening to them?
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You are either a total genius or else you must be absolutely raving mad.
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How did you do that? You're an absolute genius.
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The day will come when I too must be pushed from my stool by the workings of younger genius, and shall sink, as poor Mr. Brown is now sinking, into the foggy depths of fogeydom.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm
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There followed a period of about fifteen years when creative genius became evident, such as the works of William Shakespeare.
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Choosing where and when to play with ambition, and respecting areas on the field, stages of the game and scorelines at which efficiency is more important than genius is the difference between schoolboy rugby and the league version.
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And when I heard about hygge , I decided it was plain genius.
Where Cold Is Cool
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The mac with lobster and fontina was a higher-priced stroke of genius.
Don't Mention the 'Curse'
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I'm not some creative genius, I've just been doing it a while.
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This bundle is a stroke of genius in our minds, and means that you can decide what content you want your kids to use.
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For one person who, being a person of genius, has been injured by what is called conventionality -- I do not, of course, mean foolish conformity to what is absurd -- thousands have been saved by it, and self-separation means mischief.
Catharine Furze
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He had a genius for making people feel at home.
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Since de Portes died in a car accident at the end of June 1940, her side of the story is lost to history, and she forever remains Reynaud's evil genius, responsible for all his errors of judgement.
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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.
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Her idea was a stroke of genius.
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The genius of the language has been described as accumulative: it "tends rather to add syllables or letters, making farther distinctions in objects already before the mind, than to introduce new words.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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Roxy and Virgie, in their clean Sunday suits, loitered around the bridge behind the store, or strayed a little way up the Manokin brook, hearing the mocking-bird rend his breast in all the ventriloquy of genius.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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And I don't think many people know of another trait of this many-faceted genius: that he could whistle beautifully.
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The Swindon sweeper doesn't need a broomstick to weave his magic and cast his soccer spells, just pure genius.
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This poem is a moment of antic genius in an otherwise rather solemn book.
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Some genius has started a Pisa pushers group on Flicker, featuring third party pics of tourists attempting to 'straighten' the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives
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It's hard to be too jealous, though, because Jonathan is a totally sweet guy and he actually is the sort of genius writer for whom such prizes were created.
Boing Boing
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The genius sauvage, the dope-fiend and Pollyanna Fletcher had been dissolved and reconstructed: joyless, dreamy and bright.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison
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Though she understood nothing of the principle of cards, Zoë threw herself into kalooki, won a hand, believed she had a natural genius for the game, lost a hand, and left the table.
Kalooki Nights
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It must be some kind of transference, so the studio guys think that they're geniuses, too, for discovering them.
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After a period of voluntary unemployment he finds work at Aldermaston, hobnobbing with geniuses who could blow up the world if they felt so inclined.
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Illmensee was widely credited with genius.
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The aurochs Bos primigenius, the wild ancestor of modern cattle, is now extinct, but the American bison also called the plains buffalo, which belongs to the same Bovidae family, displays enormous sexual dimorphism.
The Goddess and the Bull
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Oh, Nick! How generous I have been with my genius.
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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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A maverick, a man described as a self-destructive genius, who battled heroin addiction, endured turbulent relationships with his band members but whose fast living saw his candle burn out so young at just 44.
The Australian | News
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Pawel, whom I already knew and liked and would unhesitatingly describe as a genius, was soon attached as director, and instantly brought a new sensibility to bear on the script.
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A silver-tongued charmer with celluloid in his veins, he veers between boy-wonder genius and self-promoting charlatan.
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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.
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It has none of the poetic flights of the French genius, but advances steadily, and gains more ground in the end than its sprightlier compeer.
The Paris Sketch Book
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The only saving grace was Robert Downey Junior's performance as the comic genius they said.