Sentence examples for imaginative genius from inspiring English sources

This quality was combined with imaginative genius and an artful and lively curiosity.

As discussions and debates about what to build at ground zero proceed, we wait, one fears in vain, for another such stroke of imaginative genius.

He even, in a characteristic moment of imaginative genius, tried to be the therapist of the Judeo-Christian God, in his iconoclastic book Answer to Job.

The audience is left to judge whether he is an inspirational figure touched by imaginative genius or a mere con man.

But neither had the imaginative genius to make the full creative leap at the core of their theories, namely that there is no such thing as absolute time and that gravity is a warping of the fabric of space-time.

Yet it was just that sense of improbability that marked him out for popularity: in his overt ordinariness he embodied the imaginative genius of Argentinian football, the kid from the streets who made good not by any advantage of upbringing or physique but through his untutored technical ability.

And so in 1954, when John Hersey published a piece in Life deploring the books used in public schools to teach children how to read — he called them "pallid primers [with] abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls" — he mentioned Dr. Seuss as one of the "imaginative geniuses" whom publishers might turn to in the hope of enriching the books they produced for the schools.

Unlike its 2008 predecessor, this opening ceremony laid careful stress on what we like to think of as the British virtues - individual genius, imaginative flair, freedom of expression and wit.

Stirred simultaneously by Dorothy's immediacy of feeling, manifested everywhere in her Journals (written 1798 1803, published 1897), and by Coleridge's imaginative and speculative genius, he produced the poems collected in Lyrical Ballads (1798).

That is the enduring youthful genius and imaginative generosity of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

"No one who knew Kingsley at that time," he went on to write, "would deny that what chiefly distinguished him was this genius for imaginative mimicry".