work of genius

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His mixture of insult, ressentiment, and buffoonery is a work of genius.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

While not as well known as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", published five years later, the book cemented Kundera's reputation as a leading novelist with critics who called it a work of genius.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2023

She is charmed by the novel, which helps her understand that “a book didn’t, in fact, have to be a bewildering work of genius to be something she loved.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

But it’s a flaw in a work of genius, just as colonialist subtext in Babar is a complication in a brilliant series of books.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2021

Almost at once the Bogdanov paper excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson