8758 examples of genius in sentences

A Genius For Affection.

She is not a brilliant woman; she is not even an intellectual one; but there is such a thing as a genius for affection, and she has it.

"A genius for affection."

Yes; there is such a thing, and no other genius is so great.

But the souls who have what my friend meant by a "genius for affection" are in another atmosphere than that which common men breathe.

Their "upper air" is clearer, more rarefied than any to which mere intellectual genius can soar.

But the souls who have a "genius for affection" have no outer dome, no higher and more vital beauty; no subtle secret of creative motive force to elude their grasp, mock their endeavor, overshadow their lives.

What was a Vanity Fair, a Babel of jargons, a school for scandals, a mart of lies, an arena of passions, an atmosphere of poisons, such as that city was, in spite of wonders of art and trophies of victory and contributions of genius, to a man who loved the certitudes of heaven, and sought to escape from the entangling influences which were a hindrance to his studies and his friendships?

Gehon, i. Genius, ii.

For if such were the dreams of its noblest and purest genius, what must have been the dreams of the ignoble and impure multitude?

They fell back quickly, and only the military genius of Khalid, in command of the rear, was able to save them from annihilation.

But they never grew sufficiently in volume to threaten his dominion; they were wiped out at once by the alertness and political genius of his rule, until his death gave all the smaller chieftains fresh hope and became the signal for a desperate and almost successful attempt to throw off the shackles.

After years of tumult Arabia had settled for the moment peaceably under the yoke of a religious enthusiast, who nevertheless possessed sufficient political and military genius to found his kingdom well and strongly.

O'er earth's wide surface take thy vagrant way, To imitate thy master's genius try.

I was not a little offended with this malady, shall I say my mistress Melancholy, my Aegeria, or my malus genius?

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, our style bewrays us, and as [108]hunters find their game by the trace, so is a man's genius descried by his works, Multo melius ex sermone quam lineamentis, de moribus hominum judicamus; it was old Cato's rule.

yet, horum facta (as [290]one condoles) tantum admirantur, et heroum numero habent: these are the brave spirits, the gallants of the world, these admired alone, triumph alone, have statues, crowns, pyramids, obelisks to their eternal fame, that immortal genius attends on them, hac itur ad astra.

To see a man roll himself up like a snowball, from base beggary to right worshipful and right honourable titles, unjustly to screw himself into honours and offices; another to starve his genius, damn his soul to gather wealth, which he shall not enjoy, which his prodigal son melts and consumes in an instant.

Idleness is the malus genius of our nation.

What Telchine is my genius?

So that, between both parties, our transcendant Liturgy remains like an ancient Greek temple, a monumental proof of the architectural genius of an age long departed, when there were giants in the land.

Irritated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested.

A critic of genius would have said that such books were not worth writing, still less worth reading.

Some of the younger critics, who still retained an interest in their own personalities, discovered that its vacuity made it a convenient mirror by means of which they would display the progress of their own genius.

Society, with a larger S than that which he had hitherto adorned, was delighted to find after two notable failures that genius could still be presentable, and the author was rather more than that.

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