A tortured genius who died in anguish and poverty.

What a tortured genius he was.

In his last great novel, "Doctor Faustus," Mann portrayed, for the first time, the great artist as a tortured genius.

Anyone who cares about this tortured genius of a man - and many still do and many more should - will have to read this book, minor misquotations aside.

Tales of tortured genius have always brought out the worst of those in the popular arts who would explain the phenomenon.

Lendl has neither the stoicism of Bjorn Borg, the passion of Jimmy Connors or the tortured genius of John McEnroe.

It is here that Mr. Hicks, the director, invites us to start thinking about the tortured genius as a tortured metaphor.

The tortured genius.

He played a tortured genius on film (and sometimes on record), but on his new CD, as on his old one, he seems more interested in playing the field.