genius
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Alejandro is this crazy genius and being around that level of — Tom Cruise as well — they’re all obsessive perfectionists that have just like endless rocket fuel in them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
But that might be its genius: Everything feels less frightening when it presents as unbelievably stupid.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
He left a biography of Hölderlin on his desk with this sentence underlined: “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
A deep-lying central midfielder whose genius was spatial.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Henry, too, was said to be wealthy; what’s more, he was a linguistic genius.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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