It was an almost equal mixture of individual genius and debatable defending.

Breakthroughs take years, even lifetimes, of work, and are usually less about individual genius than about building upon a collective foundation of knowledge.

The individual genius was replaced with the cog.

In these instances, antiquated ideas of individual genius influence how scholars look at issues of attribution and tenure.

For these socialists, the intuition of the masses in action can have more genius in it than the work of the greatest individual genius.

Today, it's buried behind a commercial premises with little to indicate that a literary genius slept within.

One has to place against that the sheer disgustingness of the drunk, whether a literary genius or not.

What to do with a misunderstood literary genius?

Both combine veneration of literary genius with an unabashed appetite for writing of all sorts.

For him, literary studies involved a component of homage to literary genius.

But it seems likely that this was the result of upbringing rather than mathematical genius.

The mathematical genius was running this way and that in an extraordinarily skilful manner.

He said that there was a popular misconception that he succeeded mostly down to being a mathematical genius.

What makes a mathematical genius?

It doesn't need a mathematical genius to work this out, just someone patriotic.

He was a brilliant musical genius, largely self-taught.

Between recurring bursts of musical genius, he staggered from disaster to disaster.

But the champ of 2002 and 2003 believes everyone's life has been touched by the musical genius who had a troubled life from childhood.

Some have hailed him as a musical genius, while others believe that he was just downright weird.

He was no great innovator or creative visionary or musical genius.

He has a surprisingly decent voice - and his dancing was an act of pure genius.

But those comedy shorts were a stroke of pure genius.

Putting them on to sneak them out was pure genius.

It was a moment of pure genius which delivered the ball on its way into history.

Someone that played with passion, spirit and was nothing less than a pure genius.

After a series of bizarre incidents ensue, they attempt to enlist the aid of a scientific genius to help them.

He also had blue eyes, a scientific genius, and fine long hands 'which had never handled things that were not the symbols of ideas'.

Yet his brand of sociable, collaborative science (he was the antithesis of the solitary scientific genius) feels very much in tune with our times.

He has no delusions of scientific genius or pre-determined destiny.

A scientific genius, he created this cybernetic entity which combined his personality with the superior abilities of a computerised brain.

Many are sheer genius; however, a few would benefit others hugely yet undermine you.

And for sheer genius, what about the trailer wheel as a temporary rear tyre — although you wouldn't get me driving that car.

Here we have a case of sheer genius.

At work, your ideas are unusual and sheer genius - but show you checked the facts.

Unsettling as unexpected events may be, take advantage of chance encounters and you could turn what are already suberb plans into sheer genius.

A foreign coach would be a tactical genius.

His triumphs were the products of tactical genius, not of deep philosophical conviction.

Far from being a stroke of tactical genius, it was a move forced on him by the scoreline, but it paid off in spectacular fashion.

Perhaps it was part of an unknown master-plan by a tactical genius but more likely, the lifestyle made the difference and the better fighter won.

He said it himself the other day — three months ago he was a tactical genius.

Others will say it's a breathtaking opus from a true genius.

Take my word for it, people who wait for the world to discover their true genius tend to wait a long time.

His true genius could lie in making his biggest supporters overlook the number of very clunky records he's made.

He was a true genius in his music writing, a legend to many.

Most musicians are not born writing fully formed 'hits', and true genius takes time to develop.