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
His imaginative brilliance is most apparent in his inventive and often witty designs for furniture and metalwork.
The moon pales the stars with her brilliance.
she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance
The brilliance of the sun belied the low temperature.
But the Scot's running forehand winner is pure brilliance. The Sun
Not for him the eye-catching drama of a dreadful miss and mistimed tackle to be redeemed by brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Gaudiness and its companion brilliance, are your birthright as a bicyclist!
It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success. Napoleon Hill
The pin-point brilliance of the targeting beam danced across her forehead.
By bolstering Clampett's vision with a kind of premade Surrealism imported from Dali, Freleng dilutes the ingenuity and visual brilliance of the original short, reducing it to a clever referential game rather than a truly original work invented out of whole cloth. 12/17: Porky In Wackyland; Dough For the Do-Do; Quai des orfèvres
How grey and narrow the arts world will seem without his gadfly brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
We exalt effortless brilliance, we celebrate talent and the achievement that comes easily, naturally.
I would guess that brilliance is a comparative issue where the rater is the lowest common denominator. Think Progress » Bush’s Fluctuating Degree of Ability
Among other illustrious names who have given a brilliance to these alleyed walks and corridors are to be recalled Corneille, Condé, Saint Royal Palaces and Parks of France
Awash with glittering gold, adorned in yellowy brilliance, the jewellery designers cut a new path, defiantly and creatively.
Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
Thus it is that one often comes across a line of startling beauty and brilliance in an otherwise putrescent poem or page of prose.
A sputtering light-ball of the size of a food pellet, it cast a circle of such intense brilliance on the metal ceiling that the sunglow illumination was dim by comparison. "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 4
The material and the production technology have been optimized to heighten contrast and achieve brilliance.
I can only imagine this could make for some really compelling literature -- after all, it was the flexibility of the English language that gave Shakespeare such leeway for brilliance in his day -- but when daily news depends on clarity and brevity, overcoming a basic problem like an unstandardized language is no small feat. Victoria Fine: Why Can't Kurdish Journalists Write Well? A Look at Modern Media in Iraq
That's when you'll get that flash of brilliance.
It is a firm belief that this inner light can be kindled to brilliance through yogic practices.
Twelve unknowing faces gazed back at me, not a smile or sign of brilliance on a one. THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
There were flashes of brilliance from Michael Hordern and Kelly Hunter but generally the acting lacked sparkle.
But the Scot's running forehand winner is pure brilliance. The Sun
The handsome bay had a lot of brilliance, but a times lost his focus, including skipping into the canter in his first medium trot.
And with a great leap of logical brilliance, he deduced that he was looking at a ceiling.
He is also respected for his brilliance as an artist.
Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre.
Yesterday, though, their mercurial brilliance was replaced by mediocrity. Times, Sunday Times
They cut glass, they refract light into perfect hearts-and-arrows, and they have superlative fire and brilliance.
But giant tubeworms are 6-foot-long expletives, shouts of brilliance, startling in their vivid simplicity and exposure.
It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night.
A player of mercurial brilliance, his career has been blighted by injury. Times, Sunday Times
This is the sort of film critics go for, because they know the bourgeoisie will hate it and they're afraid if they don't ramble on about its brilliance and authenticity, they'll look like philistines to all their peers.
Douglas makes the concerto sound almost chaste in its clinical brilliance.
Nield essayed the daunting, high lying solo flute line with brilliance and a lustrous tonal palette.
Whichever way this concoction settles the resulting amalgamation is pure brilliance, you really need to see this movie. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
It's not really fair to demand musical brilliance from remixes, although it can be done.
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
What Pons lacked in brilliance, he made up for in aggression and energy.
For some the madness seemed to bubble with molten brilliance from every fissure.
Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs.
Just when she might have begun to see through his academic brilliance as superficial sophistry, the tragedy had occurred. COMPULSION
The sky was clear and the sunlight had a brilliance and intensity that made her head reel.
The second, though not quite matching the first's coruscating brilliance, was still peppered with hysterical moments and the usual quota of toe-curling tomfoolery.
Most interesting is the brilliance with which the series plays the antihero game. Times, Sunday Times
And thanks to the brilliance and peculiarity of the films thus far - the final one, Cremaster 3, debuts later this year - Barney's little boys are the hottest nuts in the art world.
His inability to recapture his former brilliance led him to alcohol and other stimulants, and his behaviour became increasingly erratic. Times, Sunday Times
It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success. Napoleon Hill
But giant tubeworms are 6-foot-long expletives, shouts of brilliance, startling in their vivid simplicity and exposure.
We are a side without much individual brilliance but we are capable of digging in. Times, Sunday Times
That is why he deliberately left so few personal records behind; that explains the innovatory brilliance of his greatest plays.
The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman.
He pouts and sulks, but achieves moments of inspired brilliance.
The boldness and visual brilliance that lets posters succeed as ads has been their "albatross."
Though there are glimmers of brilliance, quite frankly, too many of the songs are too mediocre to fulfill the potential of an intimate, listenable live album.
One of the girls, apparently thinking she had been struck by a stroke of brilliance chirruped, ‘Oh!’
But then his intellectual brilliance is matched by his enigmatic personality - you can't be sure what he's really up to.
Confident words from a confident young man but for all his brilliance and for all that he has already had a couple of top-five finishes in majors, the 2009 US PGA at Hazeltine and at this year's Open, the young Ulsterman has yet to really contend over the back nine on Sunday. Why Whistling Straits is a course to make Tiger Woods wince
Only the brilliance of the Northern Irishman, who holed a stunning birdie putt on the 16th green to extend his lead in the match, and the nervousness of Mahan, who duffed a chip shot on the par-three 17th that sealed his defeat, finally turned back an American tide that had threatened to deny Montgomerie a captain's victory to add to the many he has won as a player in this event. Ryder Cup 2010: Graeme McDowell the perfect hero for Europe
For your brilliance is only a shadow of what is to come.
In a moment which summed up the technical brilliance and supreme inconsequentiality of the tweet-happy live stream at ISTEK, Gavin Dudeney boldly tweeted that he was about to wave his arm above his head. 2010 April « Ken Wilson's Blog
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
Our lively conversation between Penn Station and 30th Street, Philadelphia, where he got off, ranged freely overBusby Berkeley, the Empress Carlota of Mexico, the brilliance of Angela Lansbury, and Jesuit missions in Peru, etc. Archive 2009-07-01
It's a different world in which technical brilliance is not always enough. Times, Sunday Times
The sun caught a piece of quartz in the granite and lit the brilliance embedded there.
According to Claudio Luti, President of Kartell, “The Kartell-Tokujin team is founded on the creativity of both partners, on the brandʼs expertise and on the designerʼs poetry which goes far beyond technical brilliance.” Growing A Natural Crystal Chair
I love the surprises and the gravitas and the brilliance and the wit. The Sun
But Gillespie loved to sing and clown as well as to flabbergast with his brilliance and inventiveness, and he never quite saw why that should bother anybody. Jazz's Last Hero Trumpeter
Every now and then, there emerges a star, which, by its sheer brilliance, throws light far from where it originated.
Prefiguring Expressionist chiaroscuro in their tonal brilliance, they achieve the seemingly impossible brief of ensnaring the transitory temperament of meteorological effects.
As a foil to the brilliance of Dalglish he was the cornerstone of the fabulous Liverpool midfield of the 1980's.
Then, too, the ideal voice for this heroic part needs the sort of declamatory clarion brilliance that the Italians call 'squillo'.
In youth orchestras now we take technical brilliance and galloping energy for granted. Times, Sunday Times
The stars at night have a special brilliance undimmed by city lights and close to the door of the cottage there are glowworms.
Like the first try it was a typical piece of individual brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes trusting the impulse leads directly to brilliance.
The brilliance of the miniature of the stoning of St Stephen, on that saint's chasuble, makes one wonder how much El Greco learned from Clovio and what success he would have had with small details, if he had not generally painted in haste.
On many trees this autumn, the leaves are just withering away without much brilliance of colour. Times, Sunday Times
He is also respected for his brilliance as an artist.
Fifteen seconds of brilliance came out in one mazy, long run that showed his ability to destroy teams. Times, Sunday Times
Lucy's eyes, moreover, were riveted on her face, on its colour, its fineness of feature, its brilliance and piercingness of expression. The History of David Grieve
A skilful phrasemaker drafted that sentence, and it has a horrid brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
This is a trait far rarer than brilliance and wit.
This then becomes the springboard for launching game plans, tactics and moments of individual brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Kelly's brilliance inspired his team-mates and the remainder of the game saw Waterford launch many attacks at the visitors' goal.
Examples of brilliance crop up in one in ten autistic children.
Your mind is alert and ideas you have over the weekend have a touch of brilliance. The Sun
The greatest brilliance in life lies not in never falling, but fall can always rises again.
His wit and brilliance made him the darling of the popular cause.
But the absence of weighty matter in no way diminishes the music's brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
His brilliance renders this film an indubitable classic.
The sky was a dome of palest glass, and the sun sparkled on the snow, and everywhere was a purity and brilliance almost beyond bearing.
As the morning sun shined brightly the sea reflected it's brilliance, sparkling in every direction.
Mia cried out in surprise of the brilliance of the light while the vampire hissed fiercely.
After six decades on the world's concert stages, Rosand's artistry and technical brilliance remain undiminished.
Mark Elder conducts a performance that is second to none in brilliance and precision.
It was an epic display of power, athleticism and no little technical ability and the only reason it stayed 0-0 was the brilliance of the two keepers. The Sun
His eyes became accustomed to the dark after the brilliance of the sun outside.
For the past week, one has heard the clarity and brilliance of his vision.
He displays flashes of directorial brilliance, particularly in terms of the relationships between the characters, and the performances are solid.
They're quite eager to claim the movie as an example of Mr. Southern's brilliance, but as the documentary unspools it becomes apparent that Sellers made up most of his dialogue.
The home team were restricted to individual flashes of brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
For all his brilliance as the theater's foremost prestidigitator of language and thought, Stoppard is a conservative who, like Einstein himself, resists the idea that chance is the "" mother '' of reality. What Happens When Spies Collide
Yet the brilliance and disciplined attack of the string playing give fresh perspectives. Times, Sunday Times
Still, I was sure that the obvious brilliance of his performances, which 'slayed' Randy, and 'killed' Stephen, and made the often plastic Jennifer Lopez into a deeply feeling woman, would overcome the doltish attitudes of young Americans. Gwen Davis: Dr. Strangeidol, or How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Bomb
In her performance as the Snow Queen she showed great technical brilliance.
Right now you're either dazzling the general populace with brilliance or charming them with blarney.
When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous; but when we put them in the mouth of Bacon they do not sound strange, they seem in their natural and rightful place, they seem at home there. Is Shakespeare Dead?
This wealth of sample-worthy material draws Axelrod's brilliance to light even further.
The No. 1 driver for team Cagliari -- he had the word Cagliari emblazoned across the chest of his overalls -- his consistent brilliance on the Grand Prix tracks had made him the acknowledged crown prince of racing and Harlow's eventual and inevitable successor. The Way to Dusty Death
Lalgudi Jayaraman, who first performed with Raghu in 1947 at Madurai, said his mridangam was a perfect combination of brilliance and tradition. The Hindu - Front Page
This record attempts to prove nothing, and therein lies its brilliance.
He has the expertise and knowledge of what players are thinking as well as the technical brilliance they need. The Sun
Politics beckoned, not just because it offered an outlet for his rhetorical brilliance and restless ambition, but also because MPs were immune from prosecution.
It probably does deserve a mention, if only to note that if Wilentz, Marsh and Davis are all singing from this same page of the hymnbook, it seems safe to conclude that this he's-reverse-race-baiting theme is Mark Penn's newest stroke of strategic brilliance. Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card"
In the next game he tried even harder and scored 55 points in a game of coruscating brilliance, one of the great individual performances in any team sport.
The show must be seen for the brilliance and no-nonsense artistry of its leading lady, our delightful dame of the calceolarias.
Or does its cerebrated head itch with all that swarming brilliance inside? The Times of India
We sat laughing and gasping in awe at the writing, the delivery and the sheer brilliance of Britain's best stand-up comic.
Perhaps, one of them will display a flash of brilliance.
The brilliance of truth cannot be dimmed ; the eyesight of the mountain eagle cannot be blocked by dense fog.
The splendour and brilliance of man is often encompassed in art, but doesn't this very same art have a godlike quality to it, that most average humans cant even dream of reaching.
Why did this detonation of brilliance have to be unleashed on poor him? Times, Sunday Times
The greatness and beauty of elite sport is that it allows individual brilliance to shine through. Times, Sunday Times
At times, his performance verged on brilliance, but at others it was only ordinary.
Here was intellectual brilliance aligned with spiritual profundity.
There is pleasure and technical brilliance and the show will probably get more laughs and more speed as it settles down. Times, Sunday Times
Yet for all his political brilliance, he leaves office a disappointed man. The Sun
Up in the ceiling, spherical crystals of light bars radiated a brilliance of pale white.
It was a detonation of simple brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
In more recent years, Brando's brilliance as an actor was overshadowed by his eccentric reclusion, the turmoil in his family life and financial disputes.
He sets up scenes of surreal brilliance, like the estranged husband practising tennis shots in an empty swimming pool, while his wife entertains her masseur in the bedroom.
On the other hand, I am something of a bookworm, and nothing appeals to a bookworm more than the opportunity to show off your intellectual brilliance.
The brilliance of the microfluidic cell is that ABEL can move both charged and neutral particles -- the latter via a sort of "electro-osmotic" effect due to hydrodynamics forces Cocktail Party Physics
The sun rose behind the Tower, backlighting it in the brilliance of a sunrise.
She lacked the technical brilliance of some of her rivals but was highly expressive, thanks to a new choreography coach. Times, Sunday Times
But this is a play which combines surface brilliance with a surprising depth of feeling.
Chris followed Frad out into the half-light of the warehouse, which seemed brilliant after the stuffy inkiness of the hole, and thence into the intolerable brilliance of late-afternoon sunlight. Cities In Flight
Occasionally the orchestra tended to overpower her, but the brilliance of her playing left an indelible impression.
And it has nothing to do with the brilliance of my cinematography; it's just the fatally cute combination of slo-mo and acoustic guitar that unmans me.
It's biography as fiction, imagined with almost supernatural brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
Yet however good it is, it seems rather tame compared to the provocative brilliance of his earlier work.
The merit of his _Maximes_ as examples of style -- a style which may be described as lapidary -- is incomparable; it is impossible to say more, or to say it more adequately, in little; but one wearies in the end of the monotony of an idea unalterably applied, of unqualified brilliance, of unrelieved concision; we anticipate our surprise, and its purpose is defeated. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
He played with easy beguiling brilliance, like neon light, at times erupting into shards of pure ecstatic electric yearning.
Getting On is still fun to watch, but the first two series had an intangible quality that made them almost shocking in their originality and brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Entrepreneurs are often so dazzled by imaginings of their own brilliance that they forget to look at history and reality becomes distorted by grandiose dreams. Times, Sunday Times
Peering through the tentacled brilliance, she saw the yellow figure of Rachael surrounded by an attentive court of dazzling luminaries, a flavescent nucleus orbited by blue and crimson electrons. Cachalot
During a long job interview process, consistency counts much more than flashes of brilliance.
We are a side without much individual brilliance but we are capable of digging in. Times, Sunday Times
His brilliance was soon noticed and he became a spy before joining the world of banking to become a billionaire in no time. The Sun
Will we use our technological brilliance to annihilate genetic diseases before they strike?
his brilliance raised him above the ruck
Coaching often produces high competence, but real brilliance tends to depend on intuitive learning. Times, Sunday Times
That was all down to Brown's 'brilliance' as chancellor, according to the Nulab noddies. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Brown-faced golden daisies bobbed in the gentle breeze; smaller arnicas vied with the fledgling's feathers for sunny brilliance.
Maradia is not the product of an expensive private school or aspiring middle class parents who hope to hothouse her into academic brilliance.
It is easy to be blinded by the brilliance of that balmy Melbourne night.
Those white margins were ribbons of sloe or blackthorn, bringing brilliance to the rich pasture lands and the promise of late summer bounty if a late frost doesn't prevent the setting of these wild cousins of the damson. Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
He played with a masterly coolness and a sheer footballing brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Your thirty-three page manuscript combines the brilliance of a young Marcus Paulk with the creative writing of Pierre Deligne, and will surely be devoured by archaean readers everywhere you send it. Archive 2007-02-01
My dazzling brilliance was to turn her piece into a series, a la Kiki Smith, to turn the gelcap clear, to include the grain of rice, and to see it as epic. Archive 2009-01-01
This collocation of precocious poetic essence, stupefying lyricism and seditious brilliance sets up Rimbaud as the Romantic-Modern poet par excellence.
Back at Walton Hall he set grimly to work, applying his taxidermal brilliance to a hideous revenge.
Where did the ambition and intellectual brilliance come from?
Polly grinned, delight at the glorious sunrise, and relief at feeling better adding warmth and brilliance to her smile.
He played with a masterly coolness and a sheer footballing brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Everything else is a little too gorgeous; she seldom duplicates the slight sense of danger and tension that weaves through her best work, instead infusing everything with the sunlit brilliance of a spring day.
The highlights were thrilling interludes by "highlander" folk band Zakopower, led by charismatic singer-violinist Sebastian Karpiel-Bulecka, an energetic foil to Kennedy's wayward brilliance. Culture | guardian.co.uk
He did that with more style, grace, brilliance and dominance than anyone I saw in more than four decades of talking to people in jocks.
The girl or woman he was addressing seemed to be expected to sit in silence, marvelling at the brilliance of the person orating at her.
Picotee's face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement.
He has the expertise and knowledge of what players are thinking as well as the technical brilliance they need. The Sun
Now that I think about it, Corona does somewhat look like Madonna, despite her "refulgent peach-pink skin gleaming like translucent glass, almost porcelain to the eye, and her golden hair resembling fiber optic cables of fey brilliance. Writing update
Yorkshire did have their moments of individual brilliance and once again Darren Lehmann delighted with his wizardry with the bat before returning to Australia with 1,136 Championship runs at an average of 66.82.
With one qualified exception they have been laudatory, have commended his integrity, his reliance upon his God, his brilliance as a soldier, his restless energy as head of state.
In the elaborate ballets and revels in the "Grove of Daphne" the use of Greek scales, Greek progressions (such as descending parallel fourths long forbidden by the doctors of our era), a trimetrical grouping of measures (instead of our customary fourfold basis), and a suggestion of Hellenic instruments, -- all this lore has not robbed the scene in any sense of an irresistible brilliance and spontaneity. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
The other part thinks fond memory of brilliance is best. Times, Sunday Times
They have been embellished with red enamel spots and have high mirror polished rhodium tips to add to the brilliance.
The sky was clear, the sky velvet black, the stars hard in their brilliance.
We would turn a blind eye to the rest of the class in all their body-con brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
His dogged pursuit of the possible and the necessary was at the other end of the scale from Canning's verbal brilliance. The Times Literary Supplement
A player of mercurial brilliance, his career has been blighted by injury. Times, Sunday Times
Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
Evidently, his divine brilliance is too great for mere mortals.
A virtuous circle of success and a narrative of managerial brilliance is constructed. Times, Sunday Times
In youth orchestras now we take technical brilliance and galloping energy for granted. Times, Sunday Times

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