"Actually, I'm a near genius," Parker said.

A work of near genius, if I do say so myself, he thought with satisfaction.

Foreigners like me see a gifted clown, a self-promoter of near genius, but Somchai knows better.

Now nearly every successful Hollywood director is considered a near genius.

In the late 1920's there was Andre Kertesz, a photographer of near genius, who got the beach life of Dieppe exactly right.

Fred was an up-and-comer, a near genius with numbers himself.

But if you are less than a writer of near genius, can you by simply describing what your policemen do, hold your readers spellbound?

In fact he was a near genius!

Randolph's faults, feuds and failures are one thing: that he was a remarkable and highly gifted person, a near genius, is another.