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UK
/bɹˈɪliːəns/
]
[ US /ˈbɹɪɫjəns/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɪɫjəns/ ]
NOUN
- unusual mental ability
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a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
a glare of sunlight -
the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products
his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects
it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor
an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art
for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel
How To Use brilliance In A Sentence
- The rounded flakes, with less surface area to reflect light, lose brilliance.
- It's a different world in which technical brilliance is not always enough. Times, Sunday Times
- The home team were restricted to individual flashes of brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
- Two of the ballet's encounters stood out, imbued with a kind of artistic brilliance befitting their underlying influence.
- They were a red brilliance and gave the whole stone flooring a colour of blood.
- Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance.
- The greatest brilliance in life lies not in never falling, but fall can always rises again.
- Its brilliance leaves you open-mouthed. Times, Sunday Times
- It is shocking in both its subject matter and its brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
- Slowly the edge parted and flattened out, broadwise, displaying the marbled brilliance of the butterfly's inner wings, illumining the pale chastity of the sleeping figure as if with a quivering and evanescent jewel. Success A Novel
