genius

Grabbing mighty scissors, he cuts and rejiggers Homer and a bit of Virgil to transform these classical texts into his type of tale: one fixated on memory, self-identity, destructive genius and the slippage of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

But I do know England haven't played against Messi, and he is our genius.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

His cash cow: Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, the improvisational comic genius sometimes called the “Mexican Charlie Chaplin.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

And Argentina advanced past Switzerland despite a quiet night from its 39-year-old genius in residence, Lionel Messi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

If you are thinking I am making this up, read Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter....Don’t let millions of people down who regard you as a genius and an example to themselves.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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 Inman, Thomas

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

“They are such artistic geniuses, but so silly and playful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Springsteen called the musician a writer in the lineage of "geniuses" and "natural rebels" like Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

“And tell your uncle,” Superintendent Lopez added,“we’re not tearing down Riverview Middle School. Not now, not ever. How could we, when it produces geniuses such as Kojo Shelton, Grace Garcia, and, of course, Jake McQuade!”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein