Sentence examples for mental genius from inspiring English sources

But he added, "If I could remember when I was 3, I'd be a mental genius".

The mini-biogs of his chosen composers ("mental, depraved, genius bastards") are as revealing as his musical choices.

They are 12-year-old science fair extraordinaries, mental calculation geniuses, and computer whizzes.

Even Albert Einstein, society's most common mental picture of genius, needed group input to hone his insights.

"There's also a difference between comic genius and mental illness".

Famous forensic psychiatrists like Cesare Lombroso, the Italian professor of criminal anthropology, asserted a connection between genius and mental instability.

The autistic savant whose extraordinary genius for mental retention inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain Man has died, his parents confirmed yesterday.

Just examining simple population statistics is, arguably, the first step in debunking the link between so-called genius and mental health.

He has a combination of genius and mental strength that makes him formidable and he is desperate to regain the title he lost in the semi-finals to Anderson last year.

Too often the chance to depict genius or mental disorder is taken, even by gifted actors like Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man") and Geoffrey Rush ("Shine"), as a license to show off.

Instead, his impetus has been only to "make things better"; for his parents, whose emigration had propelled them into reduced circumstances and fragile dependence on a shaky network of exiles, and for his brother Freddy, the preferred son whose descent from musical genius into mental breakdown had completed the family's wreckage.