Sentence examples for category of genius from inspiring English sources
Genius also happens to be a widely abused term that privileges technical mastery (think, guitar shedding) rather than depth of emotional interpretation (another reason why female interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald have been time and time again left out of the boys' club category of genius).
African American artists, historically denied full participation in American citizenship under slavery and Jim Crow, were often excluded from the category of genius or in the case of visual art geniuses like Basquiat obstructed from the full expression of their artistry by impinging discourses of primitivism and abjection.
Beyond funny, He invented a new category of comedic genius.
The Time (Dirty Bit) also qualifies, abundantly, for the category of "dumb genius".
The installation of Michelangelo's David in front of the city's government palace in 1504 suddenly unveiled a new star, nearly a quarter of a century younger than Leonardo but in the same incredible category of human genius.
Above all, the idea of having five past winners introduce the nominees in the four acting categories was a stroke of genius.
I don't know yet if I'd put Salonen in quite the genius category of Leonard Bernstein of "West Side Story" and the "Serenade," but Salonen has excelled where Lenny the composer heroically struggled, in synthesizing the influences of the music he loves to conduct — including Stravinsky, Sibelius, and Ligeti — into a seamless whole.
The sense that I fall between the two categories, of the academic and the man of genius & real originality, but better to make a full attempt toward "genius".
First, the new look: in iOS 6, the App Store application has removed the "Categories" button from the app's main screen, in favor of "Genius".
It's not a work of genius or anything, and it doesn't fall into the "underappreciated gem" category, but it doesn't deserve the thrashing it's gotten in the press and elsewhere.
