Sentence examples for versatile genius from inspiring English sources

It was also in the 1820s that the powerful and versatile genius of Victor Hugo emerged.

The most admired and influential poet of the period was Willem Bilderdijk, whose versatile genius was almost smothered with excesses of rhetoric but whose Protestant zeal had repercussions in the Réveil (Revival), a Calvinist fundamentalist movement that gave impetus to the literary revival of the 1830s.

The Jansenist Blaise Pascal, one of the most versatile geniuses of the century, represented and defended a minority religious movement that Louis XIV believed dangerously subversive.

Nevertheless, Garry Kasparov said that Alekhine's attacking play was based on solid positional foundations, and Harry Golombek went further, saying that "Alekhine was the most versatile of all chess geniuses, being equally at home in every style of play and in all phases of the game".

In the performances of Perlman, Cranston and Brooks, I think you can trace a line of descent to the greats of the form: the eternally world-weary Yaphet Kotto, comic genius Thelma Ritter, Camberwell's insanely versatile Claude Rains, the tireless Brad Dourif and Paul Giamatti.

At least one other video camera app, Video Genius, is fighting for attention in this category, but it is less versatile than competitors.

He was versatile and played with size and speed, and making Warriors coach Steve Kerr look like a genius for putting him in the starting lineup for games five and six.

But while I'd like to say I'm in flow with the marketing, um, geniuses, my early adoption of the shade probably just shows what a versatile colour it is.

The versatile Afro-Cuban percussionist-composer Dafnis Prieto became the most recent jazz musician to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.

Versatile enough?

Versatile, sure.