Sentence examples for profound genius from inspiring English sources

Profound genius is midlife's territory.

This was followed by Steps (1968), which won the National Book Award, and Being There (1971; film 1979), a satiric fable about Chance, a simple-minded gardener whose innocence, shallow platitudes, and total dependence on television for his vision of the world are interpreted as evidence of profound genius by socialites, business leaders, and politicians.

Chance is a gentle gardener whom fate thrusts into the high society of Washington, DC, where he is mistaken for a profound genius as he regurgitates gardening phrases that he has heard on television ("In the garden, growth has its seasons").

"Profound fatigue, profound brain fog.

Ms. Bourgeois's ability to make the simplest of materials into something profound is sheer genius.

In a sense, the house is a profound expression of genius loci, the notion that every place has its own spirit, which Ms. Zimmerman describes as "something ineffable, something you can't totally explain, like art".

ONE of the crafty pleasures of Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" is that it is constructed in such a way that it seems to be about -- and to reveal -- someone who, in life, would have possessed the profound inscrutability of genius: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), child prodigy and tireless performer at European courts, composer of some of the most sublime music ever written, dead at 35.

For nearly every model or photograph in the show that supports the idea that Le Corbusier's work was defined by a profound and overlooked genius loci, there is another that casts him in a more familiar role: as a radical remaker of cities happy to raze forests and pave over fields to make way for a bold new architecture.

It is perhaps blasphemous to suggest that the worthy Mr. Elbaz's more profound talent is his genius for interior design, which is so articulated in this space that one really wishes Lanvin had a furniture collection.

To be fair, I have no doubt that works of great genius and profound historical importance are being written right now, maybe even by people in Brooklyn.

Administrative Officer Steve Lawson, who worked side-by-side with Pauling for almost 20 years, gave us a profound appreciation of the genius behind the Institute.