Sentences with phrase «man as a genius»

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The agency was behind campaigns such as «Real Men of Genius» and ads featuring Spuds MacKenzie mascot, as well as «Whassup?»

«Sometimes I fail to understand,» Ravi continued, «how men with such high levels of intelligence fail at such petty things as the stock market, even when you hear of investment stories about individuals who've made fortunes because of exceptional insights or sheer genius!»

Then God raised up a man of sanctity, genius, and deep pastoral experience, a man of the Council who had led an extensive implementation of Vatican II in his own diocese under extremely difficult circumstances, as John XXIII's third successor: Karol Wojtyla of Cracow, who took the name John Paul II, thus honoring John XXIII's first two successors.

Man, am I tired of biblical geniuses explaining that no man knoweth the hour of his coming as if that sews it all Man, am I tired of biblical geniuses explaining that no man knoweth the hour of his coming as if that sews it all man knoweth the hour of his coming as if that sews it all up.

I know that I probably quote Heinlein as much as fundies quote the Bible, but that man was a genius, well ahead of his time!

Second, that much human frailty as well as human genius went into its making, with some of the most skilled writers of all time, yet men like ourselves, among its creators.

Ackroyd himself said of Eliot: «Both as a writer and a man, his genius lay in his ability to resist the subversive tendencies of his personality by fashioning them into something larger than himself.»

The two men combined their genius on a fragrant encomium to the anus as cynosure of beauty and sexual pleasure.

He writes as a man who seems to come out of nowhere, as though he sprang into the world a fully formed thirty - four year old Catholic author and genius.

Having shown that the gospels are essentially purveyors of a Christ myth, Strauss concludes his work with a last chapter in which he presents Jesus as a religious genius who achieves in himself the unity with the Father which, as unity between God and man, is the goal of the religious development of humanity.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

Should have been our Assistant Manager and Bould as one of the coaching staff, the man was a genius on the pitch, that knowledge of the game does not just fade off.

What a world we live in.People are acting as if this is an easy decision for Wenger.If he keeps Sanchez for next season and we win the EPL then allow him to go for free people will say Wenger is a genius and the risk paid off.If we keep him next season and we don't win the EPL and allow him to go for free the world will laugh at Wenger and Arsenal.I for one find this a funny situation because he'll still be a Man City player no matter the case.

The German playmaker can be the heartbeat of our attacking play and it could be any one of a number of players who provides the finishing touch to o0ne of his pieces of creative genius and we could certainly do with as much of that as possible when Pep Guardiola and the Man City players arrive at the Emirates stadium tomorrow.

Then last season, Mourinho gets Man U back into CL and Klopp scrapes Liverpool into fourth place and both are hailed as geniuses.

As much as I don't like Mourinho as a human beeing and I don't want him to win the PL with Man U, I admire him for his passion to win and his tactical geniuAs much as I don't like Mourinho as a human beeing and I don't want him to win the PL with Man U, I admire him for his passion to win and his tactical geniuas I don't like Mourinho as a human beeing and I don't want him to win the PL with Man U, I admire him for his passion to win and his tactical geniuas a human beeing and I don't want him to win the PL with Man U, I admire him for his passion to win and his tactical genius.

Had Walsh remained as coach, with future Hall of Fame quarterbacks Joe Montana and Steve Young running his avant - garde offense, the man who had been dubbed the Genius knows he could have won four, five, maybe even six Super Bowls.

Guardiola is, as some would describe, a genius, however Man United's win showed that the City manager definitely has his flaws, something that other managers should definitely look to exploit when they come up against the Spaniard's sides in the near future.

Here is a typical scenario you all know: We will go in an unbeaten strike to secure our 4th grade trophy... We will have those AKB's telling us «see we told you, negative thinkers, we are good enough with Wenger, we have the right manpower» And here we are again 4th, 3rd, or even 2nd (but never 1st), the summer comes, Wenger talk as wise - man a transfer window genius, just talk and talk, while Pep, Klop, (new MUTD manager) and (new Chelsea manger) sign all available classy players... We are in a loop...

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Though many football people acclaimed him as a genius, and everyone accepted him as a man of integrity, no one would dare hire him in the big time, because Bull Cyclone sure as shooting wasn't going to be a football assistant for any mother's son.It's apparently true that Norm Van Brocklin, an old pal of his, did once ask him to take over the Atlanta Falcons» offense when Van Brocklin was head coach, but Bull Cyclone declined, saying, «Now, Norm, why should I come up there and work for you when I already know more football than you do?»

This Jordan Pickford must surely be the Man Of The Match as he is either a genius in goal or very very lucky, but after Sanchez calls for a penalty without success, he pops up again with a header and we finally put the game to bed.

as the eagle eyed geniuses who read AA will have spotted Mark Hughes has 10 letters and the number 10 signifies a cheating, spiteful, ignorant, charmless man (thank you, Morrissey)

Is Wenger, as I believe, not just a genius manager, but one who is able to adapt to changing circumstances BEFORE they happen, or is he exactly the opposite: a man so transfixed with his own vision that he can't change.

I read the ad as facetious, in the same tongue - in - cheek tone as the Budweiser Real Men of Genius commercials.

By excluding men under thirty - five from the first office, and those under thirty from the second, it confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgment, and with respect to whom they will not be liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.

So let me drop my cynicism for a moment and try to think positively about the man that talk show host Nick Ferrari refers to as «the blonde genius.»

With Iron - Man, Favreau has enough sense to not only show his exploits as a playboy or a business man, but also as a technological geniMan, Favreau has enough sense to not only show his exploits as a playboy or a business man, but also as a technological geniman, but also as a technological genius.

Whether through humor or pathos, he excelled at illuminating the struggles of average men against a callous world; as director Billy Wilder once noted, «There was a little bit of genius in everything he did.»

And it paints a compelling portrait of Abraham Lincoln as a flawed, imperfect man who was nonetheless a genius and a once - in - a-generation visionary.

Genius is most compelling as the origins of a man who would achieve greatness, rather than an attempt to wedge that greatness into an otherwise - normal young adulthood.

At the Baxter Foundation, the young men are joined by Storm's children, his biological son Johnny (Michael B. Jordan) and adopted daughter Susan (Kate Mara), as well as Victor Von Doom (Tobey Kebbell), a disturbed computer genius who grudgingly acquiesces to joining the team out of romantic feelings for Sue.

Antonio Banderas plays Pablo Picasso as an older man in season two of «Genius.»

Antonio Banderas plays Pablo Picasso as an older man in season two of National Geographic's «Genius.»

Looking at the Mimic series as a sort of allegory of the dangers of technology is a given; locating a man - child, his room encased in a plastic sheath and taking pictures of his neighbours for a collage on his wall, as the centre of a Mimic sequel is something like a stroke of (derivative) genius.

Yes Tony Kushner is a genius and the cast superb but as the man running the show Spielberg contributions shouldn't be marginalized.

The EVIL GENIUS over at Stand By For Mind Control Blog nails the problem with modern screenwriting, as evidenced by MAN OF STEEL, right here in Socratic dialogue mode:

For example, because this is DreamWorks» / Universal's Oscar tentpole, the running time falls safely in the «adult contemporary holiday respectable» range of 130 - 145 minutes, and it features a big name actor in a role that requires him to be some combination of mentally disabled (I Am Sam, Forrest Gump, Rain Man), insane (As Good As It Gets), or that delicate combination of the two: a genius (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 7, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Iron Man 2 (PG - 13 for profanity and intense sci - fi violence) Robert Downey, Jr. reprises his role as the genius, billionaire inventor with a superhero alter ego.

The entire series, beginning with «Iron Man,» qualifies as a work of marketing and narrative genius from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, Before the home video market existed, Hollywood studios would never think of creating a movie that required viewers to see a decade's worth of other films to know what's going on.

«He may be a designer, but he's the designer as tortured genius, a man whose idiosyncrasies and unreasonable behavior are enabled ad tolerated in the service of his art.

Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to save the world from itself.

To be fair, though, Tony Stark is a grown - ass man, and he's incredibly pompous about being a «billionaire genius playboy philanthropist,» as he put it.

Whether you believe Jerry Lewis is a comic genius, a braying clown, a shrewd show - biz pro who carefully cultivated a popular stage and screen persona, a hopeless egotist with a cringing need for attention, or simply a comic with a gift for manic physical humor that clicked with audiences in the fifties and sixties, most people agree that The Nutty Professor was his greatest film as a director and his most interesting variation on the child - man figure he had transformed into Hollywood gold.

, is no comic genius but his good - natured goofing and mugging as Musketeer Gripweed adds a scruffily vulnerable touch to the more focused character comedy of Jack MacGowran (as the unit con man and self - appointed entertainment director) and Roy Kinnear.

Rhys Ifans oozes malevolence as an NSA honcho with a particular interest in our boy genius, sizing him up the way a starving man might stare at a steak.

As a young man in the 1960s, Brian Wilson (Dano) is a prodigious genius, preferring to stay in the studio while his brothers Dennis and Carl (Kenny Wormald and Brett Davern) and their bandmate Mike Love (Jake Abel) head out to meet girls on tour.

Rumored to be based on both Balenciaga and Charles James, Reynolds is a genius with a yard of taffeta, but an empty shell as a man — antisocial, demanding, exasperating and cruel.

As the titular Charly, Robertston goes from a 30 - year - old man with mental retardation to receiving an experimental treatment that allows him to experience genius - level intelligence, only to regress back to his original state.

Scored by another tongue - bath of a score by James Horner (bring a squeegee and a change of clothes, you'll feel like you've taken a swim in a spittoon), Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is every bit as episodic, derivative, patronizing, and bloated as Horner's compositions — the man, by himself, defining a genre of picture perhaps fatally damaged by his very intrusion.