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Example sentences for "genius"

Lexicographically close words:
genitals; genitive; genitives; genitor; genitum; geniuses; genlmn; genocide; genos; genoux
  1. Nevertheless, he was handed down to posterity as a product of genius and stimulation--a sublime toper.

  2. God forbid that I should behold him shining upon men of genius in bondage or in exile!

  3. You see, the stamp of genius is on all our public men," Mr. Smead continued.

  4. No matter what kind of a motor may be selected the services of an expert will be necessary in its proper installation unless the amateur has considerable genius in this line himself.

  5. Jack, how can you use slang in the presence of ladies?

  6. The man who took tea in our house yesterday.

  7. His comprehensive genius led him through the whole circle of profane sciences; above the rest, as Eusebius tells us, he was profoundly versed in the Roman laws.

  8. Though he had no tincture of learning, he made tolerably good verses in Spanish, having a natural genius for poetry.

  9. Being by his lively and comprehensive genius excellently formed for controversy, he immediately set himself to write in defence of religion, which was then attacked by the Heathens and Jews on one side, and on the other corrupted by heretics.

  10. Speratus said, “I know not the genius of the emperor of this world, but I serve the God of heaven, whom no mortal man hath ever seen or can see.

  11. He had a genius rich by nature, which he cultivated with indefatigable application; though after laying a foundation of the sciences, he confined himself to sacred studies.

  12. The genius carries all before it, and drowns everything in glorious pleasure.

  13. Do not think me impertinent; I am only honestly anxious that what I consider a very remarkable genius should have faith in itself.

  14. I do not know what genius is given for, if it is not to help a woman out of a scrape.

  15. So is it ever: when with bold step we press our way into the holy place where genius hath wrought, we find it to be a place of sorrows.

  16. To say the plain truth, it seems to me so splendid a work of genius that nothing that I can say can give you an idea of the intensity of admiration with which I read it.

  17. The cry has been raised in various religious papers that Plymouth Church was in complicity with crime,--that they were so captivated with eloquence and genius that they refused to make competent investigation.

  18. So marked a work of genius claims exemption from every sort of comparison; but, as you ask for my opinion of the book, you may like to know that I think it far superior to "Uncle Tom.

  19. We do not believe that there is any one who, by birth, breeding, and natural capacity, has had the opportunity to know New England so well as she, or who has the peculiar genius so to profit by the knowledge.

  20. She has genius as humanity feels the need of genius,--the genius of goodness, not that of the man of letters, but that of the saint.

  21. The article of George Sand is a most remarkable tribute, such as was hardly ever offered by such a genius to any living mortal.

  22. My twin daughters relieve me from all domestic care; they are lively, vivacious, with a real genius for practical life.

  23. Success is being transferred from men of millionaire genius to men of social and human genius.

  24. The power of the new kind and new size of capitalist is his power of keeping an equilibrium with the people, and the men of real genius in modern affairs are men who have motor genius and light genius over other men's wills.

  25. Our wills and our won'ts are our genius among the sons of men.

  26. I have wanted to take a book which has the traits in it for which men of genius are persecuted or crucified or ignored--our more modern timid or anonymous form of the cross.

  27. In this period the Italian (perhaps largely Celtic) genius is allied with Alexandrianism in revolt against Rome: and in it Latin poetry may be said to attain formal perfection.

  28. But his graceful genius perhaps owes something to the impulsion given to literary studies by Numerian--one of the few emperors of the period who exhibit any interest in the progress of literature.

  29. All three are of Spanish origin: and it is perhaps to their foreign blood that they owe the genius which redeems their work from its very obvious faults.

  30. Where dances are well composed, they may give a picture, to the life, of the manners and genius of each nation and each age, in conformity to the subject respectively chosen.

  31. But it is only for genius to order, distribute and compose, in the other.

  32. A real genius will not be affraid of striking out of the common paths, and, sensible that inventiveness is a merit, he will create new theatrical subjects, or produce varied combinations of old ones.

  33. But in this it is for genius to direct the artist.

  34. It was open to many objections and criticisms; but the genius which had been sufficient to finance the Civil War was considered sufficient to finance the Northern Pacific Railroad.

  35. His genius had worked out the sale of great government loans during the Civil War to the people direct in this fashion.

  36. Mycteroperca moving in its dark world of green waters is as fine an illustration of the constructive genius of nature, which is not beatific, as any which the mind of man may discover.

  37. The very genius of Parnell has done us harm by intensifying the illusion.

  38. Tis only Genius that can put The salt upon their tails!

  39. Yet briers are slender, Locks are but slight, To touch of a genius That searches with light.

  40. It was a stroke of positive genius on his part to see in the burglary scare which was convulsing the country side an opportunity of plausibly getting rid of the man whom he feared.

  41. Aye, there's the genius and the wonder of the thing!

  42. He had the genius of style in such fulness as entitles him to rank with the great artists in words of all time.

  43. Now, Macaulay was the genius of special pleading.

  44. In truth the man's genius did but ripen with years and labour; he spent his life in developing from a popular writer into an artist.

  45. He was the average clubman plus genius and a style.

  46. Few have had so much genius, and in none else has genius been so curiously featured.

  47. Some primary qualities of his genius are pretty evenly balanced by some primary faults.

  48. Was Thackeray right, then, in resenting the waste of Hood's genius upon mere comicalities?

  49. Mexican ingenuity was not equal to the emergency, so Yankee genius stepped forward.

  50. One often detects an article which genius alone could originate and produce.

  51. This artistic genius was also observed among the humbler classes further south, and is by no means confined to the neighborhood of Chihuahua.

  52. Determining to test its cuisine, dinner was ordered, the presiding genius being given carte blanche to do his best; but, heaven save the mark!

  53. There is genius enough lying dormant in the country; it only lacks development.

  54. Genius is the long unfolding bloom of mind, and leaves no posterity.

  55. If we could we would produce genius that could discover the source of all life.

  56. They assumed him to be the greatest military genius that the world had ever produced; as evidenced by his success where so many others had failed.

  57. As to Physical causes, I am inclined to doubt altogether of their operation in this particular; nor do I think that men owe anything of their temper or genius to the air, food, or climate.

  58. She was born with a genius for cooking and nothing else.

  59. Genius is yet the product of long cultivation.

  60. A genius with us has a subtlety of thought and perception beyond your power of appreciation.

  61. For many minutes he examined it through the emerald with which he aids his sight, then asked: "'What land had the honour to bear the genius who wrought this work?

  62. His genius as an inventor is revealed in many details of the great concentrating plant.

  63. To the day of his death Lord Kelvin remained on terms of warmest friendship with his American co-laborer, with whose genius he thus first became acquainted at Philadelphia in the environment of Franklin.

  64. There the famous philosopher showed and explained it to Alexander Graham Bell, when that young and persevering Scotch genius went to get help and data as to harmonic telegraphy, upon which he was working, and as to transmitting vocal sounds.

  65. The idea of attributing great successes to "genius" has always been repudiated by Edison, as evidenced by his historic remark that "Genius is 1 per cent.

  66. By reason of more or less inherent native genius they either make improvements along lines of present occupation, or else evolve new methods and means of accomplishing results in fields for which they may have personal predilections.

  67. To-day the place and region have gone back to the insignificance from which Edison's genius lifted them so startlingly.

  68. Johnson, the latter made allusion to Edison's genius as evidenced by some of his achievements, when Edison replied: "Stuff!

  69. The table herewith given summarizes the figures that have just been presented, and affords an idea of the totals affected by the genius of this one man.

  70. Great as has been the genius brought to bear on electrical development, there is no other man to whom such a comprehensive tribute could be paid.

  71. I would almost have foregone meeting the weird genius only to have kept that letter, for it said certain infinitely precious things of me with such a sweetness, such a grace, as Lowell alone could give his praise.

  72. Longfellow was in the fulness of his world-wide fame, and in the ripeness of the beautiful genius which was not to know decay while life endured.

  73. Indeed, the advantages to any place of having a great genius born and reared in its midst are so doubtful that it might be well for localities designing to become the birthplaces of distinguished authors to think twice about it.

  74. For their practical genius was not directed to the conquest and control of nature but to the conquest and control of men.

  75. The measure of difference between the average student and the genius is a measure of the absence of originality in the former.

  76. Indeed, the bereaved woman's excited fancy had firmly conceived the mad notion that the child was the evil genius of the house and the tool of Satan.

  77. He raised the lid, and the first thing his hand came upon in the chest was the necklace with the empty medallion--it was as though some kind Genius were aiding him.

  78. She speaks of her sorrows, in a way that fills us with melancholy, and dissolves us in tenderness, at the same time that she displays a genius which commands all our admiration.

  79. This is a power that comes complete at once from the hands of the Creator of all things, and the first essays of a man of real genius are such, in all their grand and most important features, as no subsequent assiduity can amend.

  80. But when we consider the importance of its doctrines, and the eminence of genius it displays, it seems not very improbable that it will be read as long as the English language endures.

  81. The eminence of his genius can scarcely be disputed; it has indeed received the testimony which is the least to be suspected, that of some of the most considerable of his contemporary artists.

  82. Shortly before his death, he saw his genius leave him with a dejected air.

  83. If, in the useful class, a genius arose, the first exercise of his genius was to get himself out of the useful class.

  84. Carlyle, I said to myself, had suffered and almost every writer of note--it was a sign of genius to be refused.

  85. Thanks to Augustine, Philadelphia became celebrated in America for its Oyster Croquettes and Terrapin and Broiled Oysters--what a work of genius this, with the sauce of his invention!

  86. He has had the wit never to doubt the importance of both, and the pride never to make light of his genius for living well.

  87. These Apollo left to their own genius and natural talents; as we may suppose he did the Pythia when she herself composed verses, which, though not often, happened sometimes.

  88. The genius of every nation expresses itself in the people’s manner of passing their time, and in their pleasures.

  89. It is said, that when the foundations were dug, a horse’s head was found, which was thought a good omen, and a presage of the future warlike genius of that people.

  90. The intimate union between Polybius and Scipio put the finishing stroke to the exalted qualities which, by the superiority of his genius and disposition, and the excellency of his education, were already the subject of admiration.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "genius" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; academician; ace; acuity; afflatus; angel; animation; animus; aptitude; aptness; artist; bent; boss; brain; brand; brightness; brilliance; bump; caliber; calibrate; capability; capacity; cast; champion; character; characteristic; chief; classicist; clerk; cleverness; commander; competence; complexion; composition; conception; constitution; control; crackerjack; craft; creativity; daemon; deity; demon; devil; dexterity; diathesis; disposition; dower; dowry; efficiency; endowment; equipment; esprit; ethos; exhilaration; facility; faculty; familiar; fiber; fiend; fire; firing; fitness; flair; forte; frame; fugleman; genie; genius; ghoul; gift; goddess; goods; grain; great; guardian; guide; gyre; habit; head; highbrow; hue; humanist; humor; ilk; immortal; incubus; infection; infusion; ingenuity; inspiration; instinct; intellect; intellectual; intelligence; keenness; kind; knack; laureate; leader; litterateur; luminary; magician; makeup; makings; master; metier; mind; mold; most; mould; moulder; mouldy; muse; natural; nature; nimbleness; nonpareil; nose; nous; paragon; parts; philologist; philosopher; physique; potential; power; principal; prodigy; proficiency; property; prowess; pundit; qualification; quality; quickness; ruler; sage; savant; savvy; scholar; scholastic; schoolman; senior; sharpness; smarts; sort; soul; speciality; specter; spirit; stamp; star; streak; stripe; student; sufficiency; superior; susceptibility; system; talent; technique; temper; temperament; tendency; tenor; tone; totem; touch; turn; tutelary; type; vampire; vein; virtuoso; way; whiz; wizard; wonder