Mr. Balooch said he tried to make the app, which boasts more than 17 million downloads, in-house until perfecting the feature that distinguished Makeup Genius from other such apps (its ability to track facial movements in real time) proved a formidable challenge.
To paraphrase and slightly adapt Vladimir Nabokov (Strong Opinions): I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished man of letters, I talk like an idiot.
So argues Stuart Kauffman, a distinguished biologist and winner of a MacArthur "genius" grant.
Roman Polansky's arrest reminds us that sexual predators come in many guises: the sleaze ball creep, the boy next door, the trusted priest, the popular coach, the distinguished political leader, and yes, the creative genius.
SSP alumni have garnered Nobel Prizes, MacArthur "Genius Grants", Lasker Awards, Fields Medals, and much other distinguished scientific recognition.
Eero Saarinen, the most distinguished of the competition judges, called the design "a work of genius".
But Kant himself prepared the way for the reassertion of the "confused concept" when he ascribed to genius the virtue of combining intellect and fancy, and distinguished art from "pure beauty" by defining it as "adherent beauty".
Among them are Caldecott honors for distinguished work on children's picture books and the so-called "genius award" of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, for extraordinary creative accomplishment in a field.
SPECULUM MUSICAE The distinguished contemporary-music group takes on a world première by the Danish genius Poul Ruders, known for such brilliant and blisteringly intense works as the opera "The Handmaid's Tale".
At Amherst in the early '80s,Wallace, himself the son of a distinguished philosopher, was considered by his professors to be a rare philosophical talent, a genius in the making.
