One thing Stimpson didn't change: a bias toward finding geniuses chiefly from the left.
This combination of conservatism and radicalism, of political sleepiness and insomnia, this centuries-long brotherhood of gamekeeper and poacher, which Orwell called "the English genius," was also Orwell's genius, finding in English life its own ideological brotherhood.
The overriding mood of two recent trends – chillwave and witch house – has been one of unease, with artists such as Salem and Perfume Genius finding a sadness in things that, on the surface, seem sterile or innocent.
Andy believes their insightful comments are directed at the characters in the film, leading him to conclude they are "movie geniuses" finding hidden depths in the film.
This Habsburg court artist's genius for finding faces in the natural world fascinated the surrealists.
What demanded genius was finding $20 billion in triple-B-rated bonds to launder...To create a billion-dollar CDO composed solely of triple-B-rated subprime mortgage bonds, you needed to lend $50 billion in cash to actual human beings.
Critics seeking to diagnose literary icons may also be taking the current vogue for finding autism in dead geniuses -- Michelangelo, Wittgenstein -- to its logical conclusion.
As such, Darcy says, the show grapples with our fundamental urge to make sense of the world through storytelling, and with the very nature of belief itself; with our genius for finding meaning and order in the universe, and with the comfort that such meaning and order provide.
The genius-in-residence has a minor point.
Beyond his talent for embodying the African American experience in music (try "Water Boy"), Donald's genius was in finding the hidden personality of material (try his album of spirituals).
