"Hook in your idiot savant and I'll give it the data direct."
Instead we might speculate that the idiot savant is like a reckless explorer.
He is something of an idiot savant with a great gift for horticulture.
It is also one which can turn ingenious quickly, like an idiot savant, once convinced of a goal.
There are elements of the classical idiot savant, although he does not fit easily into that category.
An idiot savant with a specialty in expository writing would never let such things happen, of course.
Instead, for years to come, I would hear "idiot savant."
Was Warhol, who died in 1987, a bit of an idiot savant?
Almost like an idiot savant, Harry was good at only one thing-flying.
Insisting otherwise makes him into a kind of idiot savant who could create but not choose.