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.
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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