The word genius in a sentence

Here you can find a large assortment of example sentences for the word genius, or in other words sentences that can help you learn how to use genius in a sentence. Learning how to use a word in a sentences can be very helpful, for example when it comes to learning how to use the word in a sentence, in which context the word can be used as well as to learn the true meaning of the word «genius».

Synonyms for genius

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General information about «genius» example sentences

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гений, гениальность, одаренность, гениальный человек, гениальная личность

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a towering genius of his time — выдающийся гений своего времени  
a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius — угрюмый молодой гений, почти что мизантроп  
the highest development of his genius — полное раскрытие его гения.  
rare genius — редкая, исключительная одарённость  
spark of genius — проблеск гениальности  
man of genius — гениальный человек  
to demonstrate / show genius — проявлять гениальность  
artistic genius — гениальный актёр  
budding genius — юное дарование  
inventive genius — гениальный изобретатель  
a transcendent genius — исключительная одарённость  
evil genius — злой гений (человека)  

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ед. ч.(singular): genius
мн. ч.(plural): geniuses

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Sentences with the word Genius?

Not to be confused with genus, the word genius is a fairly common one. However, just because we hear the word genius everywhere does not mean that we really know what it means. Thankfully, the Word Counter is here to help with a guide to the meaning of genius, so you can get one step closer to becoming one.

What Does the Word Genius Mean?

According to Collins English Dictionary, the noun genius refers to a person who is highly intelligent, creative, or talented. It can also refer to the concept of that intelligence or talent. The word genius is two syllables (gen-ius), and the pronunciation of genius is dʒiːniəs. 

According to Dictionary, the word genius can also refer to a Roman myth in which a person has one guiding spirit that leads them from birth to death. This guardian can also guide an institution or a group of people. In ancient legend, this could be an evil spirit, demon, or ​tutelary deity that is good or bad. This type of spirit also exists in Arabian mythology as a jinn or demon.

What Are Translations of the Word Genius?

Geniuses exist all over the world in many forms. Therefore, it is inevitable that languages around the world created their own words for genius, which are listed below. 

This list of translations of the word genius can give you the ability to communicate with people who speak other languages about the concept of genius and geniuses:

• Turkish: dahi‎
• Sorani: بلیمه‌ت‎
• Korean: 천재‎ (天才‎)
• Hungarian: géniusz‎, zseni‎, lángész‎, lángelme‎
• Tagalog: henyo‎
• Spanish: genio‎ (masc.), genia‎ (fem.)
• Irish: duine ardéirime‎ (masc.)
• Macedonian: гениј‎, генијалец‎
• Mandarin: 人才‎ (réncái), 天才‎
• German: Genie‎ (neut.)
• Slovene: genij‎ (masc.)
• Vietnamese: bậc anh tài‎
• Galician: xenio‎ (masc.)
• Basque: jeinu‎
• Dutch: genie‎ (neut.)
• Azeri: dahi‎
• Malay: pintar‎
• Latvian: ģēnijs‎ (masc.)
• Thai: อัจฉริยบุคคล‎ (àtchàríyá bùkkon)
• Catalan: geni‎ (masc.)
• Russian: ге́ний‎ (masc.)
• Khmer: ទេពារក្ស‎ (teipiereak)
• Welsh: athrylith‎ (masc.) (f)
• Bulgarian: гений‎
• Finnish: nero‎
• Polish: geniusz‎ (masc.)
• Czech: génius‎ (masc.)
• Greek: μεγαλοφυία‎ (fem.), ιδιοφυία‎ (fem.)
• Japanese: 天才‎ (てんさい, tensai)
• Esperanto: geniulo‎
• Persian: نابفه‎ (nâbeğe)
• Icelandic: snillingur‎ (masc.)
• Romanian: geniu‎ (neut.)
• Arabic: عَبْقَرِيّ‎
• Portuguese: génio‎ (masc.) (Portugal), gênio‎ (masc.) (Brazil)
• French: génie‎ (masc.)
• Estonian: geenius‎
• Swedish: geni‎ (neut.)
• Hawaiian: akamai‎
• Armenian: հանճար‎
• Indonesian: genius‎, jenius‎

What Is the Etymology of Genius?

According to Your Dictionary of the English Language, the word genius comes from the original Latin genius. This refers to the secondary definition of genius as a person’s guardian spirit. The Latin genius stems from the Latin gignere, meaning to beget or to produce. Gignere comes from the Old Latin genre and its root gen, which also gives us words like genus.

How Can the Word Genius Be Used in a Sentence?

The word genius is versatile and can be used to describe many people who are talented in various ways. To get a sense of how to use the word genius in a sentence, reference the examples below. Then, see if you can use this word of the day in conversation today!

Destiny was an evil genius; a child prodigy with a high IQ, it was her inborn nature to be incredible at mathematics. However, she decided to use her exceptional ability and natural talent for evil, not good.

Da Vinci was a man of genius in many ways; a man of superior intellectual faculties and the superior power of invention, he was a special success for many kinds of action. This distinctive character was on the same level as Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton.

The young genius had exceptional intellectual ability; however, she struggled to use such ability to have great influence over others. Her inspiration worked best behind the scenes, from her poetry to her musical genius.

She was a genius when it came to design; the woman was able to use her special taste to find new combinations of pieces. Her extraordinary creative process and uncommon vigor of mind caused her to quickly rise to the top of the interior decorating field.

What Are Synonyms of the Word Genius?

Sometimes genius just isn’t the right word for a particular situation; in this case, you can use a synonym. A synonym is a word that has the same or a similar definition as another word or phrase. If you’re looking for a synonym for the word genius, this list from Power Thesaurus is sure to help:

• ability
• ace
• adept
• aptitude
• artistry
• bent
• brain
• brainiac
• brains
• brilliance
• brilliant
• capability
• capacity
• champion
• cleverness
• demon
• egghead
• einstein
• expert
• expertise
• facility
• faculty
• flair
• gift
• hotshot
• ingenuity
• intellect
• intellectual
• intelligence
• knack
• maestro
• master
• mastermind
• maven
• mavin
• mind
• prodigy
• savant
• scholar
• sensation
• skill
• star
• superstar
• talent
• thinker
• virtuoso
• whiz
• wizard
• wizardry

What Are Antonyms of the Word Genius?

To learn words that mean the opposite of the word genius, this list of antonyms of genius from Power Thesaurus can help get you started:

• amateur
• as daft as a brush
• berk
• bird-brain
• blockhead
• boob
• clod
• clot
• clown
• coocoo
• cretin
• damn fool
• disorganised person
• dolt
• donkey
• doofus
• dope
• dumb
• dumb as a bag of hammers
• dumb as a box of rocks
• dumbbell
• dummy
• dunce
• fat-headed
• fathead
• fool
• gander
• glimmer
• goof
• half-wit
• halfwit
• idiot
• ignoramus
• imbecile
• inability
• incapacity
• jackass
• moron
• nincompoop
• nitwit
• simpleton
• stupid
• stupid person
• turkey

Conclusion

Overall, the word genius commonly refers to distinguished mental superiority, uncommon intellectual power, or a peculiar structure of mind, as well as extraordinary intelligence and aptitude of mind. 

Genius can take many forms, from artistic genius to mathematical genius. Someone who is a genius might have a high intelligence quotient or a special understanding for one domain. This can also be used to refer to the guardian spirit of a person or guardian spirit of a place.

Sources:

1. Genius synonyms – 2 140 Words and Phrases for Genius | Power Thesaurus 
2. Genius antonyms – 1 819 Opposites of Genius | Power Thesaurus 
3. Genius Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com 
4. ​Genius Meaning | Best 25 Definitions of Genius | Your Dictionary
5. Genius definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary 

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The genius of Obagi is that it deals more with skin health rather than skin beautification –

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This database is the realm of genius; because to be

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by virtue of his birth has access to genius

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He then had stared at it into seeing genius

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It doesn’t take a genius to work out what went wrong

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“Stupidity is often confused with genius,” Roman said wiping the last of

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Now where are those lists? They should be in that filing tray … What a heap of papers! Ah, bingo! Good old Caroline, in one of her moments of sheer genius, went and marked up all the class lists so that younger siblings are crossed out

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He’s a genius Heather

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A score of one fifty or higher is considered genius

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“When these genius types run out of work they start screwing with each

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“Find work in a factory? Are you hearing me mother? He’s a genius and

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Heather tells us that you’re a genius, Roman

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he was for a genius

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The man is a genius when it comes to carpentry

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I’m sure it was too farfetched for that genius mind of his to grab hold of,

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Naturally my sister was a genius and she always would get about the highest grades in her class and always get first honors and I had to suffer because of that

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genius think at a time like this, in a situation there is no way out of, in a problem

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The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in

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One didn’t have to be a genius to work out that, in the long term, the fair folk’s position was untenable

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Drau’d was a genius builder, his talents easily adapting to defensive construction of the battlefield

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I was most impressed with what Stephen Hawking (described by some as «the most prominent genius of this world») had to say, at the time, about ‘wormholes’

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how I had made fun of this genius of a man, and his ingenious

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So who’s the true genius? Who came up with the idea first!

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Jista is a genius, with unequaled insight and intuition, in my experience

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Such a waste of genius! But the balance is

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’ Monty knew the agency prized his cleverness but think too far outside the box and they might decide your genius wasn’t worth the risk

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He remembered one student saying that the guy who designed that courthouse was considered an American genius, but Martin laughed as he paused and looked at its heavy, ugly walls, before entering the Plaza Cafeteria

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The genius of exclusive companies, besides, is unfavourable, it has already been observed, to the growth of new colonies, and has probably been the principal cause of the little progress which they have made in the East Indies

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“Well, yeh, they were depressing times no doubt, but that guy was a genius, for his time

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Such advantageous situations have enabled those two colonies to surmount all the obstacles which the oppressive genius of an exclusive company may have occasionally opposed to their growth

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But in the manner in which they both govern their new subjects, the natural genius of an exclusive company has shewn itself most distinctly

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But if the genius of such a government, even as to what concerns its direction in Earope, is in this manner essentially, and perhaps incurably faulty, that of its administration in India is still more so

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The genius of the administration, therefore, so far as concerns the trade of the company, is the same as that of the direction

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As he walked in the darkness on his way there, he thought how the whole concept of Fallingwater represented the genius of the American experiment

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A genius who would struggle to live as a scientist amongst those who were surpassing

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Wright, a fellow Welshman, was no doubt a genius

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Not that he was the aloof genius the media had made him out to be

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When they have been allowed to act according to their natural genius, they have always, in order to confine the competition to as small a number of persons as possible, endeavoured to subject the trade to many burdensome regulations

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We raised a sceptical eyebrow at this information thinking which genius on the staff had thought this one up

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Upon the first dawning of his genius, it was represented to him, that by going into the church he could easily find a much more quiet and comfortable subsistence, as well as a better situation for pursuing his studies; and he immediately followed the advice

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He is supposedly some sort of genius

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Sheer liberal genius (read: imbecility

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The man with the blue eyes was deep in conversation about higher consciousness and how all the prophets, artists, poets and many of the Nobel Peace Prize winners had embraced natural highs to reach their true genius and potential and helped to make the world a better place

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He walked up to the archways that stood around the base of the building, marvelling at the genius of its architecture

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I think it was Aristotle who said, “There was never a genius without a touch of madness

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That afternoon, Tony Reilly took over the offense and made me look like a genius

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It didn’t take a genius to realize that Coal was fond of him and that he, in fact, now had a lady in his life

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You are as clever as a tree full of owls in your own eyes, even if the professors don’t recognise your genius yet! By your fifth year it takes a few hours of thinking to reach a decision and after twenty years in private practise it takes at least a week

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Although it is unlikely that aging societies will……or could, for that matter, be restored to their former rank, (age has a manner of setting limits on its own resiliencies or ability to heal itself), each retains a remarkable capacity (or genius) for transforming itself into something new, that is vibrant and wholesome although not altogether new however retaining, in some manner, its former character; allowing a society to maintain its relevancy in a changing environment in search of a ―new‖ identity

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This measure, while upsetting the bi-cameral symmetry that remains the underlining genius behind our form of government, would likely invest (disproportionate) political influence in the hands of citizens residing in relatively fewer, however more densely populated states

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The genius behind Capitalism, however, is that it is self-correcting whenever left to its own market devices

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Churchill, he wasn’t exactly known as a tactical and strategic genius, in spite of his carefully-dramatic word-play in the House

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was widely regarded as a military genius, perhaps most of all by himself

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Howard-Smythe was a genius

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I feel a lot better—you’re a genius!” McKenzie recovered quickly enough to say “Well, that’s enough for today, come back tomorrow for another treatment

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Now what? Should she mention what George had said about his problems? No, but saying nothing went further than just protecting Truman: it didn’t take a genius to know that a person who was witness to such things could easily be in grave personal danger, particularly with politicians and corrupt police involved

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As I uttered these words, I suddenly had a flash of genius or perhaps insanity:

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Almost an inspiration! Clive really was a genius, in some ways

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has defined genius as the capacity for hard work

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Genius is more than that — much more; but no

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listen to the finished art of the master genius, is the

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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life

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Trusting his genius brother, Russell slipped the Zip-Linq over his head

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‘Only a genius like you could think of a plan like that

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And even if by some stroke of luck or genius that he couldn’t really bother to believe in at that time he did somehow escape, there was no telling whether he’d be on time

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We can find a mean mark and rate very good IQ and set a mark for the dumb and the genius

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A historic innovation, and genius mechanics

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One ambassador said, “To suggest the evidence for the trials was faked would be to suppose (in Stalin) the creative genius of Shakespeare

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intelligence, solve the problem, a genius, in terms of memory and attention, however, IQ is not

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— For starters, do not build that machine, genius!

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Luke was in amazement that a man labeled as a genius in science would have had to conduct a research on a field of study he was known for

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I tried to imagine how an exorcist genius like him could ever feel fear, when his phone began to flash

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retained and harnessed, it lifts man to the levels of a genius

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expression into another form that will lift one to the status of a genius

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must be interested in starting the journey towards creative genius and

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becoming a creative genius at his work while he continues to enjoy

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then such a person could be called a sexual genius

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inherent genius and the sixth sense for success that can never happen

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There were several holes in the floor like he’d put up a good fight, but even a genius like him didn’t stand a chance

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creative genius that will lead to success

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One genius told me, “I can feel the power within me

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The owner responds, «Genius, my ass

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but a man with a genius for reality! This world of mine cannot be

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It may have been genius, but it was ugly, so ugly I called

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It was their genius that created the institutions that allow all men and women to strive for a better and more beautiful existence for themselves and their families

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It was in one amazing “scattered setting” that the political genius of the framers of the Constitution for the first time formed in words a society that allows the better attributes of each individual to be encouraged and released to exploit the potential that is there

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The trailer was another of Pa’s genius ideas

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genius if you had an axe to grind

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In the phenomenal genius

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It is the genius of that race to create problems of a moral character in whatever business they achieve a majority

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Being a sociopath and a genius are traits that sort independently in the makeup of the personality structure

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As Johnnie Babcock later put it, a public relations genius, which my father was, clearly relishes the opportunity to crown a prince or king, providing it is he who also is feted

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He was a genius with figures; for him, statistics was a walk in the park

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“And I won’t have you filling my head full of hot air, like it was an act of genius or something!”

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“But where’s genius?”

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Roy was a genius

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Whalen, Ithaca College, said, “Roy had that rare combination of business genius and personal insight that enabled superb service to his industry and to education…

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He prided himself on what a stroke of genius it

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I am wary of the word «genius,» but I am forced, reluctantly, to so describe Leoba

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