genius
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“I’ve always liked Richard Nixon,” Vance said, calling him a political genius.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
He inspires us with his genius for evangelization and new media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Her genius really does live in the recesses of her disturbed brain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
"I don't even think the genius of KP could come close to what Harry Brook has talent-wise," said Brook's former captain and team-mate Ben Stokes, who was watching on TV.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
At the government’s celebratory banquet that night Sakharov was the man of the hour, the young genius who’d matched the arrogant Americans.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
And how could they be in any art that is, above and beyond all else, a celebration of genii loci, spirits of place?
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
The presiding genii of this particular work include Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, Alice Miller and, above all, Virginia Woolf and the British psychoanalyst DW Winnicott.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012
The registration spells the Latin word "genii", meaning magical person or being.
From BBC ● May 15, 2011
According to the ordinary ideas of angels, the gods, demigods, goddesses, genii, and the like, were essentially the same amongst the Hebrews as the archangels and inferior hierarchy are in modern christian mythology.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
Like the billionaire geniuses who created social media that wound up depressing, dumbing down and dehumanizing civilization, the motives of these companies were purely financial.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Ms. Sampson dwells particularly on the author’s weakness for boyish geniuses in need of mothering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"He is a player blessed by God. Football geniuses have something special, and he has it," De la Fuente said.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Collect all the geniuses of this planet, and that’s what Miles is in one note.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
“Just taking a break from the musical geniuses out there.”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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