The genius lay in recognizing that both works are inseparable from the court of the Sun King, where they had their origins.

Mackey's genius as a practitioner, I thought, lay partly in his ability to similarly inspire patients.

Ronald Reagan's political genius lay in broadening the Republican coalition, but blacks were never part of it.

Although he tried at times to write larger musical works, his real genius lay in writing the smaller forms.

The genius of the Reformation lay in the fact that man was made free under God.

But the merchant's genius lay in the way it was done.

The genius lay in the vast number of different permutations the Enigma could generate.

Historians like Donald Morris hold that his political genius laid the basis for a relatively light hegemony.

And that was where the genius of the episode lay.