In last night's episode, the nascent firm of Alicia, Lucca and Jason helped an indebted student win her case against both a debt-collection agency and her for-profit college (that took their fees but rarely delivered a decent education) via gimlet-eyed, razor-sharp advocacy (Alicia), genius legal knowledge and application (Lucca) and a crowbar (Jason).
Finally, with regard to the gasping about Kim being "not a Washington insider", he has years of administrative experience managing finicky, self-proclaimed geniuses whose knowledge is highly-specialized and not always relevant to the real world – and who are very difficult to fire.
They combined polymathic genius with specialist knowledge, and craft with technology to a degree that no one else has found possible before or since.
Jane Austen, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Miss Austen's novels… seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.
Knowing and understanding all the characters and their personalities will help you to understand what they'd do in situations outside the comic, proving that you're a "Comic Knowledge Genius".
"Vitruvian Man" has entered popular culture as an emblem of Leonardo's genius — redolent of secret knowledge, referred to in the initial crime scene of "The Da Vinci Code" and reproduced on the face of the Italian one-euro coin.
Batman, himself a genius with a wide knowledge base and access to vast information resources, routinely consults Oracle for assistance.
Channeling his genius into an encyclopedic knowledge of history, Malachi evaluates antiques in New York City for high-end clients.
In that knowledge lies the genius of the slap, the deep humiliation it imposes.
