While The Village Voice called The Final Solution "an ingenious, fully imagined work, an expert piece of literary ventriloquism, and a mash note to the beloved boys' tales of Chabon's youth," The Boston Globe wrote, "[T]he genre of the comic book is an anemic vein for novelists to mine, lest they squander their brilliance".
(Smith) ★ Anthony de Mare (Saturday) Though Stephen Sondheim is an ingenious composer, it is hard to imagine his music unlinked from his brilliant lyrics.
Knowing how distraught Brown's congregation was over the recent violence — a killing every couple of days — I found it radical, daring, and ingenious for him to exhort them to imagine themselves drenched in blood.
We don't imagine this is seriously inconveniencing the policy people, infinitely ingenious young men, but it must be leaving its mark on the brokers.
If you commit unforgivable sins you will go to Hell, the fiery pit whose levels of increasingly ingenious punishments are acutely imagined in Inferno.
That's quite a sentence: imagine it printed as prose, and you get some sense of Donnelly's ingenious way of corralling catch-as-catch-can language within formal intervals.
Facebook's timeline is ingenious, it provides you in one sleek platform a historical archive of personal information -- imagine if Foucault had Facebook or Michael Jackson, how much more would we know about them?
I think I can even imagine what Elliott Carter's new Cello Concerto for Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony will be like: ingenious and engrossing.
Can you imagine a more affordable source of lighting for the world's poorest families than a lamp powered by gravity, or a more ingenious way to charge electric cars than by harvesting the air turbulence they cause alongside motorways?
Just imagine and imagine.
