Sentence examples for without genius from inspiring English sources

"I think culture is the escape of an intelligent man without genius, and that's me".

Kaufman, who's fifty, gave us Caden Cotard, a character who embodies genius as experimentation or, tragically perhaps, experimentation without genius.

Unfortunately he will never have a Waterloo, for he is Napoleon without genius and with no central idea…." "Whilst they make mincemeat of some of his views by their criticisms, he is meanwhile writing a book on an entirely different subject.

Jane Austen, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Miss Austen's novels… seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.

A lot of people have passion without the genius, and a lot of people have genius without the passion.

The quotation reads: "Without taste, genius is but sublime folly".

" 'Swimming Pool': Bergman's 'Persona' without the genius".

The book is a perfectly acceptable nineteenth-century moral thriller, like "Great Expectations" without the genius.

None of that would have been possible without the genius of one man, Sir Alex Ferguson.

How the front bench will cope without the genius who ran Andy Burnham's wildly successful leadership campaign is anyone's guess.