Sentence examples for ordinary genius from inspiring English sources

For readers hungry for a straightforward book of writing exercises, "Ordinary Genius," by Kim Addonizio, will offer plenty.

HOPKINS HOUSE "The Ordinary Genius of Creativty," workshop led by Anne Knoll, writer, photographer, actor and director.

That prospect — declarations of love for Herman, his ordinary genius, his steadfast wife, his pizza — strikes one as an even less pleasant than the candidates yelling at each other.

There are ordinary geniuses, whose achievements one can imagine others might have emulated, so long as they worked extremely hard and had a dollop of luck.

That Breuer took Anna's sexual feelings toward him personally, whereas Freud discovered transference as a result of the importunities of his importuning patient is the difference between ordinary intellect and genius.

Accordingly there have been novels in plenty depicting the conflict of (by ordinary standards) brutal genius with uncongenial environment, and Mr. Maugham has followed a recognised convention in this story of an imaginary artist of posthumous greatness.

In the Washington Post, Gene Weingarten described the performance as a "test of whether, in an incongruous context, ordinary people would recognize genius".

I've always been interested in the connection between the artist who is considered special, and celebrated as a genius, and ordinary people".

Shostakovich is only one example of writers' and listeners' need to send ordinary musicians or even geniuses to divine status.

They will not be young geniuses, but ordinary visitors to what is intended to be an extraordinary place: the museum's new Discovery Room.

"Shulie" depicts a genius confined to ordinary circumstances, a world-maker still in the shell.