In Threads (Jonathan Cape), Julia Blackburn sets out to write the life of John Craske, a Norfolk fisherman who painted, and then embroidered, scenes of the sea that enchanted the chattering classes of the interwar period, who liked nothing more than discovering genius in a cottage.
In the medical comedy TLC, doctors discovered a genius way to meet targets for cutting NHS waiting lists.
We laughed, we cried, but most of all we hugged ourselves for having, as we felt, discovered this genius, our contemporary.
The evening began in 1928, when the young dance-maker, working with Diaghilev, discovered his genius for invention, shooting from the classical hip.
With Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, with whom he founded a firm later known as Morris & Co, he discovered a genius for interior design.
It is hard to believe that he has suddenly discovered the genius of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and will turn his back on his own career of spewing hatred.
In 1827, he discovered the genius of Shakespeare in a short season played by a company of English actors, and the following year he wept on first hearing the undreamed-of dimensions of Beethoven.
It's been two weeks since we last discovered a genius!" Castelli, to hold on to his artists, paid them regular stipends, on a scale unheard of in America, whether their work sold or not.
Riba doesn't do much other than read, ponder books, tool around Dublin with his friends, Google himself and reflect on his career, bemoaning the fact that he never discovered a genius — thanks to "that most bitter misfortune of having to look for authors, those tiresomely essential beings, since without them the whole business would be impossible".
It was in those moments I discovered the genius that was Robin Williams; he could make you laugh, but he wanted to make you cry.
