genius

And that’s the genius, in a way, of Elon Musk: he’s constantly saying stuff that is deadly serious and a joke at the same time.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

I was a little taken aback by the clumsiness of the comedy, which makes even “Saturday Night Live” of recent vintage seem like a work of genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

We are a culture enamored of the child prodigy, the precocious upstart, the tender sprouting genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Some 40 works—including statues, reliefs, medals and more, many of which have never been shown outside of Tuscany—reveal the genius of Donatello, Vecchietta, Francesco di Giorgio and others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Leonardo da Vinci, the great genius of the Florentine Renaissance, walks out of town.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

On those enchantments, whimsical oracles of fate, metamorphoses, talking statues, monsters, good and wicked genii, he was of course unable to bestow the same reality as on his human characters.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

Vance is clearly embroiled in a lifelong struggle with a common ailment of self-serious men who consider themselves profound geniuses.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

And that’s where we are at — none of us need to be computer science geniuses to understand dangerous products should not be sold to consumers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

But at that time it created a problem because you had these critics and these NBC executives; they were riding high because they had “Seinfeld,” they felt like they were geniuses.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 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

Because when a bunch of geniuses are stuck together on a remote mountaintop for a few years, they’re going to toss around ideas.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin