Sentence examples for scholarly genius from inspiring English sources

Margaret extended her protection both to men of artistic and scholarly genius and to advocates of doctrinal and disciplinary reform within the church.

He towered above all other rabbis in three respects: He was a scholarly genius and revered by his peers; he was a spiritual leader for millions of Israeli Jews; he was a political power broker, the founder of an influential party.

Lipsius's return to the Counter-Reformation Catholic Church in 1591 had prepared the way for this symbolic and propagandistic use of his scholarly genius and image.

Warne's turn was a little shocking, albeit entirely in keeping with the Australian's own oddly scholarly, oddly punkish kind of genius.

But Chapman's scholarly appreciation of Barrett's peculiar musical genius lends authority to this sympathetic account of the reluctant star's decline into befuddled inertia – and throws valuable light on one of the more disturbing stories in rock lore.

"He has a positive genius for conceiving and executing scholarly projects of immense scope and profound seriousness," Norman Corwin, a veteran director and creator of radio dramas during the medium's golden age in the 1930s and 1940s, wrote in the introduction to Mr. Rasovsky's 2006 book, "The Well-tempered Audio Dramatist".

The late Aaron Swartz, a young Internet genius and activist affiliated with Harvard University, was caught downloading masses of scholarly articles (all publicly subsidized) from an open network on the MIT campus.

Both were out to re-create intellectual history — Benjamin with the uncertainty of his genius, wavering from subject to subject, Scholem with the certainty of his, leaping with scholarly ferocity into the hitherto untouchable cauldron of Jewish mysticism.

There are many scholarly interpretations of Dickens, but I'm inclined to think this may be the secret of his genius.

Both the savage and the scholarly – or as Lévi-Strauss might have put it, the raw and the cooked – are part of what makes Twombly a genius for our time.

Scholarly discoveries turned up.