Sublime genius won out in the end.
Spiderman of the Rings could be sublime genius, irritating madness, or both.
A shot of sublime genius by Murray, who is wrongfooted by Tipsarevic as the Serb sends a ball whistling down his deuce-court sideline, but dinks a tender forehand across court to win an outrageous point.
From "The Elizabethan Lumber Room" But the publicity of the stage and the perpetual presence of a second person were hostile to that growing consciousness of one's self, that brooding in solitude over the mysteries of the soul, which, as the years went by, sought expression and found a champion in the sublime genius of Sir Thomas Browne.
Roger Federer is blessed with sublime creative genius and unparalleled grace, Rafael Nadal with superhuman endurance and strength, Novak Djokovic with ligaments made of rubber and an inhuman sort of patience.
A couple of artists who have done brilliant work in London recently should have been shortlisted: Thomas Hirschhorn's installation at the Stephen Friedman Gallery last year was the most coruscating and pungent assault on taste in years, a neo-dadaist howl of rage at the invasion of Iraq, and where is Enrico David, a sublime pop genius of the same camp as Leckey?
Twelve slices of sublime pop genius.
With assorted production credits for Paul Epworth, Richard X and Xenomania, a more 'of its time' record would be hard to find, but no matter: Don't Stop is 12 slices of sublime pop genius, and one ranks right up there with the best contemporary female pop.
While grand abstractions (beauty, genius, the sublime) often produced long word counts, the smaller, more familiar aspects of life (vulgarity, idleness, getting up on cold mornings) were the domain of miniaturists like Lamb, Hazlitt, Stevenson, and, closer to our own day, Logan Pearsall Smith, or Cyril Connolly in one of his lighter moods.
His first philosophical work, The Treatise of Human Nature, had been, if not exactly ignored, then certainly not acclaimed as the sublime work of genius it is.
The decision to let Stevie Nicks take it for her own solo album, prompted by their shared producer, Jimmy Iovine, was a stroke of genius: Her sublime sense of camp-tinged drama takes the song to a new level.
