I put the book down with a Mittyesque feeling of omnicompetence.
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The architecture, sculpture and fountains of Michelangelo in his omnicompetence : Bernini sculpted, worked as an architect, painted, wrote plays, and staged spectacles.
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Lunella is then approached by Hulk, who gives her the Banner B . O . X . ( Brain Omnicompetence Examiner ), and is surprised when she solves it in mere seconds, proving that Lunella is the smartest person on Earth.
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In a review of his last work, Peter Green expressed admiration for West's'marvellous polyglot and off-beat omnicompetence . . his mischievous wit, his loving resuscitation of so many great nineteenth-century scholars, the erudition which, however formidable and obsessional, always concealed ( or so it seemed to me ) a vein of slily ironic amusement .'