Was it a stroke of genius to raise the volts in a car's electrical system?
One day, in a stroke of genius, I told Dirk that I had spent the previous night with her.
In what he thought was a stroke of genius, the father tore out the picture and tore it into 20 different pieces.
CNN: AllPolitics - State Of The Union Response Transcript, 1997
Nani and Anderson are two young talents who will flourish under Ferguson, while the signing of Carlos Tevez could be a stroke of genius.
And a share price which fell 10% over the week did not suggest that the market saw the Motorola bid as a stroke of genius.
But in 2006, in what one of their chief executives describes as a stroke of genius, they hit upon the idea of creating internet accounts to attract foreign deposits, using the cost savings from online banking to offer higher interest rates to savers.
Later that year, a Wall Street contact arranged a meeting with Philip Anschutz, a reclusive tycoon who had sold Southern Pacific Railroad to Union Pacific and, in a stroke of genius, kept the right to lay fibre-optic cable along the tracks of both railways.
This was not really a stroke of creative genius or an act of stunning originality.
Maritza was just plain beautiful, no need for motivation there, always around too, and it was just a stroke of pure genius that convinced him to kick it to them both at once.
The name might be a stroke of marketing genius, but if you started out with a business called HVLS (high velocity low speed) Fan Company, you might look for something with a little more sex appeal, too.
Fidelity managed to stem the tide only in September of this year when it announced, with a stroke of psychological genius, that it would close the fund to new retail investors because it had become too big to manage.
By a stroke of American political genius, the candidates' names are entered in a lottery, from which those 65, 000 visas are chosen.
Susan Thompson Buffett Susan Thompson Buffett , the 71-year-old wife of Warren Buffett Warren Buffett , the multi-billionaire investment genius, died suddenly of a stroke in Cody, Wyo.
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