Sentence examples for close to genius from inspiring English sources

It's close to genius in my view.

Because Hick's batting came close to genius.

But no composer, however unjustly neglected, can benefit from being placed too close to genius.

Imelda Staunton's performance as Sweeney's accomplice, Mrs Lovett, comes close to genius.

I'm no "South Park" connoisseur, but Sullivan claims that the episode was "about as close to genius — and hardcore fan-pandering — as you can get".

But - along with a few others, including Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock and perhaps the early Mel Brooks - he came as close to genius as any humorist in his time.

It was the close-to-genius inspiration of the illustrator/cartoonist/modernist Saul Steinberg, whose immigrant background allowed him to take a detached look at Manhattanites and reduce their sensibilities to a View of the World from 9th Avenue – take agood look at it, and marvel in the enthusiastic myopia.

It's a way of working that mints few marketable geniuses, but that hews close to the genius of American material culture: design that is market-driven but media averse.

I think if you get it right 50 percent of the time, you're close to a genius.

McDowell, who has poured his admiration for his old mentor into a one-man show called Never Apologise, thinks Anderson was "close to a genius", and responsible for films that worked on an "epic scale".

"I have always been inspired by the films of Goddard [sic], Visconti, Passolini [sic] and Fellini and hope that I may one day make something that comes close to their genius".