The question naturally arose, how could two geniuses independently come up with the same idea at the same time?
One wonders who were the other three "greatest mathematical geniuses of the whole world" that this chronicler had in mind.
Under the rain of success geniuses sprang forth like mushrooms throughout the fertile ground of the country in which commonplaces abound.
Only geniuses or superwomen were likely to be able to achieve this.
According to eighteenth-century ideas, the brains of geniuses were bigger and heavier than others.
They aimed ambitiously for the stellar heights reserved only for the male geniuses of the literary firmament.
The works and the authors that comprise the canon are supposedly the undisputed 'masterpieces' and 'geniuses' of the art form.
Mozart remains our focus, even if we have largely moved beyond the approach that bases musical history on the study of a few 'geniuses' and their 'masterpieces'.
