Sentence examples for modest genius from inspiring English sources

Ben Silbermann: the modest genius behind Pinterest.

"He's the best, and just the most amazing, creative, modest genius I ever met," she gushes.

She described Twenty Twelve writer John Morton as a "modest genius".

Hume is following Fontenelle's interpretation of Newton as a modest genius not concerned with acquiring fame (Fontenelle 1728 — see Other Internet Resources below).

He is the most modest of geniuses".

I made myself a Jack of All Trades and chose good sense of humor, conversationalist, modest, friendly, and genius as my traits.

This genius is a humble, modest person.

Fresh as the flower, whose modest worth He sang, his genius "glinted" forth, Rose like a star that touching earth, For so it seems, Doth glorify its humble birth With matchless beams.

But Forks would dearly like to acquire a modest share of Seattle's genius for spinning money in cyberspace.

He was a proud man, but also the most singular of all directors, an indisputable cinematic genius whose comparatively modest output of one book, Notes On The Cinematographer, one comic short, Les Affaires Publiques (1934) and 13 features made between 1943 and 1981 carry a weight and influence belied by the mere 20 hours of screen time.

Turing did not look like a superstar, he was a very modest man, but Turing was the genius who broke Naval Enigma and invented the Bombe to speed up breaking of Enigma traffic.