"He was unpredictable, difficult to work with, genius notions, a genuine adventurer, if you will, in television news at that time," Mr. Wallace said of Mr. Hewitt, who died in 2009.
In a sense, the house is a profound expression of genius loci, the notion that every place has its own spirit, which Ms. Zimmerman describes as "something ineffable, something you can't totally explain, like art".
Martin may be undermining our notions of genius, but her belief in the forcefulness of artistic ego is demonstrated in every story.
The first Duke of Cornwall, Edward was a military genius obsessed by notions of chivalry and Arthurian legend.
They're not piercing or cold, they don't burn with any kind of cliched notion of genius.
Ours is about 'the artist is absent' – it has nothing to do with any notion of genius.
The sheer size of the country gave the effort to write a narrative an epic thrust, and the notion of genius, hard for Americans to relinquish, was still very much alive in the pages of our school yearbook.
Perhaps only in an age that distrusts the notion of genius could we wind up with a life of van Gogh that treats his iconoclasm as an expression of anger-management issues.
It is the quiet acceptance, apparently alive and well in our culture, of the notion that genius justifies cruel or abusive treatment of those who serve the artist and his art.
But Schadenfoer surfaced elsewhere, too, even finding its way into the New Yorker, in the form of Malcolm Gladwell's article debunking the notion that genius is associated with precocity.
