Word Finder - geniuses

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Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.

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I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius... and a very stable genius at that!

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Extraordinary mental capacity.

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Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.

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a work of genius.

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The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

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• tutelary deity

Jonathan Edwards, a very stern Calvinist, is one of the few first-rate geniuses America has to boast in theology.

Well, we say Kabbalists, but the prospect of any 18th century Eastern European freethinking mystical geniuses popping in is fairly remote.

It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

Put simply, Neil Young is one of the last great maverick geniuses of rock, and bone fide living legend to boot.

The marathon duel between two geniuses to crack Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs.

It is to his lasting praise that he took into his service the three greatest artistic geniuses of the time - Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael - and entrusted them with congenial tasks.

Jonathan Edwards, a ver y stern Calvinist, is one of the few first-rate geniuses America has to boast in theology.

Scott has been writing a lot of flash fiction, and is also developing a series of stories for middle grade readers about three ten-year-old friends who are all geniuses, but a little nerdy.

Okay, I'll leave the alliterative wordplay to the true lyrical geniuses.

From comedic geniuses to award-winning dramatic actors, these names have all taken their rightful places in movie and television history.

As eluded to previously, monkeys are the erratic geniuses of Chinese astrology.

I found it so interesting that I read it from cover to cover and found many celebrities, geniuses and famous people were, in fact, vegetarian and they attributed that to their success in life.

Both geniuses of the same caliber as Ender, but unsuited psychologically for military command, they hide their youth by engaging only in cyberspace, changing the political landscape.

The respectable mediocrity of Chapelain might misapprehend him; the lesser geniuses of Scudery and Mairet might feel alarm at his advent; the envious Claverets and D'Aubignacs might snarl and scribble.

It was another principle that his chief exertions should be bestowed on the intermediate class of talent, as the geniuses would help themselves, and the dunces were beyond remedy.