Sentence examples for genius for language from inspiring English sources

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

Rush has a genius for depicting language that grows out of sustained romantic partnership — what the unnamed narrator-protagonist of "Mating" called an "idioverse," a private patois made up of shared references and sayings, occasional neologisms, and common words that have taken on new meanings.

We meet a character who speaks through his ears, and a child with a genius for dead languages, and a scientist who believes the human organ system can be replaced by a botanic vascular one (wonderfully titled the "Human Vascular Bundle").

Alexander had an instinctive feel for putting together a syllabus as a foundation for effective learning, and showed a genius for organising the language in ways which students - and their teachers - found immensely stimulating.

From age 5, he was seldom out of costume, and so it is not surprising that his prodigious musical talents were matched by a genius for deploying the symbolic language of fashion in an age dominated by visual mediums.

Baïf was a personal poet whose gifts were inferior to his genius for invention of form and language; but he had a talent for vivid, realistic description, particularly in scenes of country life and in satire.

Such is Aleksandar Hemon's bountiful gift for language that the Bosnian-American writer has drawn comparison with Nabokov, that genius of word selection.

(Hat tip to Genius for the quick-turnaround lyric transcription).

'Crucial challenge' for language.

"Armstrong's a genius with language.

Li for language revision.