One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. From LearnThat.org. [Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986).]
He has a genius for interior decorating. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Mozart was a child genius. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The term genius is bandied around far too much these days e.g. From Wordnik.com. ["You're just some racist who can't tie my laces" - When mixing pop and politics goes horribly wrong] Reference
An undefined veneration was attached to the term genius, which became more powerful as it was less understood. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses] Reference
Lee remarked, “The word genius is used too much these days, but I thoroughly believe that Kener is the real thing.”. From Wordnik.com. [Managing New Product and Process Development] Reference
Lincoln was what we call a genius -- a genius, that is, in the sense in which Shakespeare or Napoleon or Galileo was a genius. From Wordnik.com. [American Men of Action] Reference
Well, now I know, the genius is my friend in GOOD OL 'MISS. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight (copy)] Reference
Should we start pronouncing the English word genius ` jaynius '?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
Because of all the men on earth, the genius is the greatest egoist. From Wordnik.com. [Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz] Reference
Even matched against the blackguardly egoism of what you call genius? —. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Much of what we call genius in great men comes from these note-books and scrap-books. From Wordnik.com. [How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune] Reference
But is this so where that fusion of all the faculties which we call genius is greatly taxed?. From Wordnik.com. [Old Familiar Faces] Reference
Savant: I agree that the term genius is thrown around too loosely but it certaily applied to Hedges. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday Tune: 'All Along the Watchtower' by Michael Hedges] Reference
Romantics reason, as Kant does, that "genius" is a faculty that contributes to the production of all art. From Wordnik.com. [Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)] Reference
Herbert Spencer avers, "The high intuitive quality which we call genius is largely feminine in character.". From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
He may possess constructive talent, but never that creative power which we call genius because it suggests the genii. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference
But much of your 'genius' is dissipated because you apply it to ten different things at a time, albeit with great skill. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 5, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives] Reference
Surely a certain quality which we call genius, as distinct from the mere intellectual power of some less brilliant writer. From Wordnik.com. [Immortal Memories] Reference
Becoming assumes the intense form which we call genius: even to read their poems is to feel the beating of a heart, the upleap of. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People] Reference
It should in fact be observed that Bjørnson's characters are of a rare purity, that his genius is always positive and in no way negative. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1903 - Presentation Speech] Reference
May added: "I have to use the word genius, really.". From Wordnik.com. [Your Local Guardian | Sutton] Reference
The word genius seems a strange one to apply to Boswell. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference
The people's advocate, Elizabeth Warren, is in -- genius move!. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Moore: Dems Come Alive!] Reference
Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader] Reference
What we call a genius, is hard to be distinguished by a man himself from. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference
I detest how overly bandied about the word genius is, but Prince truly is one. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is this Buffoon means when he calls genius a great capacity for taking pains. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Although the word genius tends to be overused, there's no doubt McQueen was special. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
How grand an era in my life, when through a winter I may justly use the word genius many times!. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
That is saying a good deal, for I never use the word genius at haphazard, and always (perhaps, too) sparingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe]
Her love too of whatever is good in French, and specially in Italian genius, give her the best title to travel. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] Reference
His genius is that he takes the joke and renders it wearable, creating iconic, desirable pieces season after season. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Winter Coat] Reference
Intellectual power was seen in the wide, straight brow, and the light of that inner fire we call genius shone in the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney] Reference
The word genius in relation to Lenin was first applied by me, at a time when others did not have the courage to pronounce it. From Wordnik.com. [My Life]
Everyone knew this; they said, indeed, that he was one of the few people to whom the word genius could be applied without exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of All Flesh] Reference
In short, my genius (which is a short word now-a-days for what-a-great-man-am-I) was absolutely stifled and overlaid with its own riches. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
Such a process, however, could not be completed by the silent working of what, for want of a better name, we call the genius of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
QUEST: Now, that I call genius, to get maids a milking to the Vermeer's, "The Milkmaid," which was only on loan to the Metropolitan Museum. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference
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