Genius

//ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs//

"Genius" in a Sentence (24 examples)

In general, it may be said that he is a genius in music.

In a word, he is a man of genius.

It sounds as if genius compensates for lack of experience.

The boy was good at mathematics so everybody considered him a genius.

There was genius in the way the girl danced.

Of all the famous baseball players, he stands out as a genius.

John is not so much a genius as a hard worker.

Everyone says that Kate is a genius and will have a successful future.

Edison was an inventive genius of the United States.

What makes one person a genius and another person a fool?

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She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!

Marx stand höher, sah weiter, überblickte mehr und rascher als wir andern alle. Marx war ein Genie, wir andern höchstens Talente.

Excuse, therefore, the shortcomings of genius under the sudorific influence of the summer solstice; for be assured that the vertical sun, however it may dulcify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful ‘plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the development of intellectual products.

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

a work of genius

to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius

and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy

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.

An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]

What a genius idea!

Bjarte Birkeland asserts that the reason why Nynorsk writers of fiction have succeeded in coming so close to naked life is not that they are more genius than authors writing in Bokmal, but that they are using their mother tongue

We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.

But Vahul was more genius than Rishi.

She said the writing for these products “is very genius” because it's carefully done.

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