Sentence examples for savant to from inspiring English sources

I fulfilled a role briefly on and off stage as a kind of idiot savant to Pete and his familiars.

Trumpism dismisses the purposefully divisive tactics of its avatar as collateral damage, the cost of bringing an apolitical savant to the table.

After No. 8 Marquette fell to No. 6 Louisville, 62-58, on Sunday afternoon, it did not take a statistical savant to break down the Golden Eagles' ugly numbers.

He also discloses a "potentially unlawful" measure known as Operation Savant to manage student numbers at peak times, under which overseas students were admitted to the UK even though they did not have necessary entrance clearance documents.

Movies, by and large, are themselves locked into the delusion that there is something liberating in the loss of sanity; Hollywood likes every savant to be touched with a trace of idiot, and vice versa, as if loath to suggest that doltishness should ever go unrewarded, or genius unpunished.

It takes a genius, no, a wizard, to save a sinking ship and Mayer, who wasn't particularly known for being on the cutting edge at Google, is going to have to be some kind of savant to take this beyond a savvy PR stunt for investors.

Clearly, Williams is championing his narrator as the latest freak-savant to re-read and re-write her way around history in order to recover "the stories that were absent from my father's lessons".

Television had gone all out and sent crews of astronomers, cameramen, & general practice savants to Canada where the eclipse was total, rather than our local 89 percent.

Her subjects range from Phineas Gage, the 19th-century railroad worker whose skull was shattered by an iron spike, to autistic savants, to many others whose injuries have replaced a former self with a different version.

When Napoléon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, he took with him a group of savants to study the natural history, architecture, ancient history and society of Egypt.

We don't need fame and we don't need to be savants to find success.