Sentence examples for naval genius from inspiring English sources
Netherlands military/political history gets the Michael Bay treatment in "Admiral," a lavishly art-directed, loud, combat-chaotic and ultimately superficial biopic of legendary 17th-century Dutch naval genius Michiel de Ruyter, whose trade-war victories against the British fleet made him a national hero.
The genius of aeronautical aviation here is the naval officer Philip Van Horn Weems, who beginning in the 1920s devised tools to be used in planes; tutored Lindbergh in celestial navigation; published "star altitude curves" that allowed calculations to be made five times faster; and invented a watch with an adjustable second hand.
It was his genius that the mass and power of our military and naval forces never obscured the men who made them.
His oddness is ascribed by the Missouri matrons to his genius, but once they are married and moved to a naval base in the San Francisco bay, Margaret begins to uncover faultlines in her husband's character.
Thank goodness, then, for the perseverance of John James Audubon, the bastard son of a French naval officer, who came alone to America as a teenager in 1803.Audubon's genius was for drawing birds.
In Rickover it had an organisational genius capable of creating the industrial base needed to provide them, choosing and training the naval engineers needed to operate them, and instilling in that cadre the meticulous safety culture needed to stop the reactors from going haywire.
