Sentence examples for recognise genius from inspiring English sources

Salieri's torment was that he was good enough to recognise genius, but not good enough to be one.

Anyone who cannot spare a drop of sympathy for Andy Murray in defeat at the hands of Roger Federer in this enthralling Wimbledon final either does not recognise genius or should be earning a living in a merchant bank.

Salieri, the urbane musician who is doomed both to recognise genius and to resent it – to thrill to Mozart's music and to hate the composer – is an original creation.

He reckons only a portfolio approach makes sense, since "there are 10,000 failures for each success but when you win, you win big .Biotech firms sometimes sneer at big pharma as slow, bureaucratic and even stupid: "They're just barely smart enough to recognise genius," sniffs one biotech man.

The Nobel committee has also had a patchy reputation for recognising genius.

He witnessed Marco Pierre White rampaging on to the scene – "it shocked everyone how talented someone so young could be" – then Gordon Ramsay – "because he came second to Marco, people forget how good he was", and was one of the first to recognise the genius of Heston Blumenthal by awarding him a star.

But he was open-minded enough to recognise the genius of Monet.

This weekend, Bafta will finally recognise the genius of Brian Cosgrove, the co-founder of the animation company Cosgrove Hall.

But how, this year, did they fail to recognise the genius of Melvyn Bragg's A Son of War (Sceptre £16.99, pp426)?

… We really have to start appreciating these artists while they are still here, and not wait until these moments [after they've died] to recognise their genius and the greatness of what they've done for music".

But I speak now as an ex-BBC comedian, consistently frustrated by the organisation's opaque bureaucracy and failure to recognise my genius, and one who, despite winning multiple British Comedy and Bafta awards for the broadcaster, never saw my average annual fee nudge even the lower threshold of the new public disclosure level.