How To Use Brilliant In A Sentence

It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
Defensive tackle is a bit more of a crapshoot, but the one thing they must make sure of is that whomever they take has a brilliant mind.

Luke was a brilliant student despite the fact that he was a notorious slacker.
The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
Established couples let old regrets go and focus on a brilliant future together. The Sun
The group, composed of four brilliant and accomplished musicians playing the guitar, mandolin, bagpipe, piccolo and violin, will bring their highly original sound to the stage.
Their show consists of two hours of adult side-splitting comedy and brilliant live music.
As such, the set was both heavy on the new material and encore-less, a sort of brilliant means of creating a Pavlovian effect on the assembled concert-goers.
It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and ‘beaming,’ and is configurable to an unlimited number of options.
This victory provided a fitting finale to a brilliant season for the club.
A chance conversation led to a brilliant new career for the young catering student.
In his brilliant first volume on the Second World War, Winston Churchill describes French statesmanship on the eve of war as ‘the quintessence of defeatism.’
He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse.
Instantly Maryse Rose could picture Lefitte's dapper clothing, the immaculately creased trousers, his heavily brilliantined hair. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
If so, why are brilliant politicians smiling at human-animalization process? Debilitated People, Powerful Rulers:Searching Roots of Global Politics
She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
The sting of brevity is made much softer by the brilliant inclusion of a fully-operational level editor. Archive 2008-04-01
He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician
By the time I've yanked on my stockings and managed to rip a ladder in them, I know it's going to be a brilliant day.
The smooth surface of the lake reflected back the brilliant moonlight.
For two 50-minute sets the crowd shrugged and shimmied to the rhythm of a more blithe and brilliant era.
But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results. The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
Only a feat of brilliant decipherment by Jean-François Champollion, working in the 1820s, allowed us to understand ancient Egypt again in its own terms. Beyond the Pharaohs
The man is unquestionably brilliant as a halakhist. Conservative Jews Grow Restless as D-Day Approaches for Gay Ordination | Jewschool
Behind every brilliant best-selling author is usually a perceptive, savvy publisher.
He delights in the society of brilliant painters, singers and musicians.
There is no reason why a gifted aircraft designer should also be a capable pilot. In the same way, a brilliant pilot can be a menace behind the wheel of a car.
Yet even clouds cast shadows, and stars keep changeless patterns and turn circles around the earth, but the rainbow was nothing but a brilliant, beautiful, empty glow in a world made fresh by rain.
Brilliant and eloquent, he was full of jokes and pranks. Times, Sunday Times
He put in a brilliant performance in the British Grand Prix.
The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
She is a brilliant advocate but, because of her sex, she is judged primarily on her appearance.
I was dazzled by a brilliant light.
The two fish were paired with fresh vegetables and tiny fried potato globes, which were all brought nicely together by a rich cream sauce and punctuated with a brilliant red burst of caviar.
Last season Marsh pulled off a string of penalty saves and he did not disappoint this time, brilliantly palming away Nick Fisher's spot kick.
Unflinching in its attacks, A Ma Soeur is a brilliant piece by an uncompromising and distinctive auteur.
You should picture to yourself the brilliant future ahead of us.
The turquoise water sparkled in the brilliant sunlight, dazzling the four birds as they hopped across the warm wet sand towards it.
He played brilliantly for the first set but then went rather off the boil.
I opened it and looked at that brilliant and terrible tongue which we call a blade; and I thought that perhaps it was the symbol of the oldest of the needs of man. Tremendous Trifles
The very idea of Chef's Theater is so risible that we cannot be sure that the whole thing isn't merely an elaborate, brilliant hoax - indeed we desperately hope it is one.
The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
When the sun rises they shine with a brilliant light that makes it impossible to keep one's eyes fixed upon it.
Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist. The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
Many Chinese adults dress their children in brilliant orange, red and pink.
It is a brilliant idea that gives people reassurance and peace of mind, knowing that their wishes will be found and acted on. Times, Sunday Times
Upon this occasion I particularly lamented that he had not that warmth of friendship for his brilliant pupil, which we may suppose would have had a benignant effect on both.
Cameras today are technically brilliant and sometimes you can just create one great image.
There are no such problems here; from the film's slam-bang opening, to its brilliant closing moments, there's not a wasted shot or scene.
But, although the striker was in a perfect position to score, a brilliant tackle by Deloumeaux steered the ball off his toe.
Pianist Kenny Werner, bassist Greg Cohen and drummer Joey Baron,are incredibly gifted jazz improvisers who are no less brilliant as klezmer musicians.
Many of my colleagues, truly brilliant accompanists, have a great sense for the singer and I have no idea whether any of them took formal singing lessons.
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
Even the smallest particles of diamond are revealed by their brilliant green emission.
a great artiste's rendering of that story of fierce passion and aching desire so brilliantly enacted under the white sunbeat of a country of cloudless skies. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West
White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue. Times, Sunday Times
My answer was the Black Death chopped population way down so that not until Galileo's generation was there as many Europeans as in Oresme's time and, if brilliant scientific minds are a constant proportion of the whole, never until then was there a "critical mass" of scientific thinkers. March 25th, 2009
Trevor said there had been brilliant support with people tooting car horns and bringing food and money.
Then, when it is all over ... Out of the darkness there came a single brilliant flash.
I was captured by his brilliant salesmanship.
The new enclosure is brilliant for us as it allows us to give the gorillas the enrichment they need. The Sun
Nonetheless, he has used these piano based samples as an interesting canvas on which to work, and his modifications shine through brilliantly.
There is no reason why a gifted aircraft designer should also be a capable pilot. In the same way, a brilliant pilot can be a menace behind the wheel of a car.
This brilliant wheel, justly called a splendor, is attached to a conical cap on the head of the dancer, held by a ribbon or kerchief tied under the chin. Did You Know? Quetzal Dancers in Puebla, Mexico
Kisangani - The rising sun is already burning a brilliant path across the muddy vastness of the mighty Congo river as the group of busy women bustle around the night's catch.
It is a brilliant feeling to get up on stage and perform in front of thousands of people.
The rain was falling heavily when the theatres let out, and the brilliant throng which poured from the places of amusement was hard put to find cabs. CARRYING THE BANNER
With all good wishes for a brilliant and happy Christmas season.Hope things are going all right with you.
Another party I fell in with said you could generally always get bread; and the thing to do was to break a plateglass window and get into gaol; seemed rather a brilliant scheme. The Wrong Box
Those marvelous blue eyes blazed in fury, shooting brilliant sparks and glowing embers.
The original had a thin premise and an anorexic plot, but delivered brilliantly choreographed fight scenes and downplayed gun violence.
Brilliant teamwork and old fashioned grit got the team a last minute point.
White stuff glistening in brilliant sunshine against a backdrop of blue. Times, Sunday Times
Because of the sea and beautiful, life because of setbacks and perfect. Learning for research and development. Work for innovation and brilliant.
The strategy worked brilliantly.
Today's Huayuan people will integrate Huayuan people's development with the company's development closely, and create a brilliant future unitedly and compose a new movement of Huayuan people.
the brilliant sound of the trumpets
Among the other Buddhist works is Suzuki Kiitsu ' s sublime 19th-century scroll painting of Sho-Kannon, who sits tranquilly on a floating lotus, backed by a golden moon and brilliant blue sky. In Search of Beauty
I'm not sure if somebody my age is supposed to have an opinion about such things, but the Hervé 'refix' of 'Enter Sandman' by Metallica is brilliant. Archive 2008-09-01
If so, you do not recognize leadership and the execution of a brilliant tactic, that puts Democrats back in play with that'churchgoing 'partof the electorate. Obama: Let's End "Divisive Politics And Tit-For-Tat"
Spain, was brilliant with the cape, fine with the banderilla and poetic with the muleta. Mexico
His idea of a brilliant conversational gambit is 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?'
Gingrich, whose "Contract With America" was a brilliant piece of political phrasemaking, is well aware that the phrase "social engineering" originated with Lenin's attempts to radically rebuild Russian society in the years that immediately followed the Bolshevik Revolution. Richard (RJ) Eskow: America's Real Radicals: The 40 Extremist Senators Who Voted Against Medicare
Expect English National Ballet's technically brilliant dancing to bring an evening of pure pleasure.
During my brilliant interview, my philologist was a bit reticent. Fateful Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
Oh … and David Wilcox was there, standing beside the burly, cold-eyed man with the expensive suit and brilliantined hair. DIAMOND RUBY
Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there. Little Women
Her golf is brilliant - I'm not in the same league.
He had brilliant darting eyes and talked incessantly. The Crossing-Place
There was something brilliantly provocative about the conjoining of two Arsenal related news items this week. Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
My skin was left soft with a subtle sheen - and the price is brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
From 1918 to 1923 there are four more brilliant fireballs over rural areas on land.
Sports would be a far more amusing place if it relaxed, exhaled and learned a lesson from this lo-fi World Series between Texas and San Francisco, which the Giants now lead three games to one after a brilliant 4-0 shutout win propelled by rookie pitcher Madison Bumgarner. If Only the Entire Sports World Were as Wacky
Eugenia too, soothed with the delusions of her romantic but innocent fancy, flattered herself she might now see continually the object she conceived formed for meriting her ever reverential regard; and Miss Margland was importantly occupied upon affairs best suited to her taste and ancient habits, in deliberating how first to bring forth her fair charge with the most brilliant effect. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.
What critics here and abroad are glossing over, however, is that as a political marketing device, his address was absolutely brilliant.
But, under Lenin's brilliant leadership, the Bolshevik party was able to resist all such deviations.
Then the movement and the chill evening air seemed to restore her usual briskness, and she proceeded to describe to the children the exact situation of the "appartement" which she and Adolphe would occupy on their return to Paris, and make many brilliant plans for the future. Susan A Story for Children
She is gradually returning to her brilliant best after a long layoff and this perfect draw makes her hard to ignore. The Sun
This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
Here, Schumpeter provides a brilliant and pertinent explanation of the mechanism whereby non-banks can become creators of ‘circulating medium’ and credit.
The plant has a brilliant purple flower.
With the development of new products and market push, XHD shall make full use of her own advantage, keep constant innovation, keep ahead of tideway and initiate a brilliant future.
The sky sparkled with brilliant stars.
But thank you, this is brilliant. hoth base if you really would like this shirt, just save the image and take it to a place where they make shirts based on what you want and bring to them. Cool Stuff: Lost Parody T-Shirt - Desmond’s Replacement | /Film
The tulips bloomed a brilliant symphony of colours and rivalled the loveliness of the birds who frequented the yard.
In this new book, Harrison brilliantly disentangles complex debates.
Burbank spent seventeen years hybridizing the common oxeye daisy with the English daisy, the German daisy, and the small but brilliantly white Japanese daisy. Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real
It's not by any means a brilliant salary but it's adequate for our needs.
In a brilliant chapter he shows how Roger reimposed English rule on Ireland in the wake of the Bruce invasion in 1315.
Keep your eyes moving across the sky and stay alert; brilliant fireballs or bolides (exploding meteors) are possible.
Within it, there are a few brilliant, crystal particles.
The biggest surprise was Everett's Holmes: a compelling, brilliant, darkly original character, much closer to the original stories than to the deerstalkers and meerschaums and Basil Rathbone.
On the platform of the scaffold was a conical-shaped block, enamelled in a brilliant red. The Mark of the Beast
Then Bale crosses brilliantly from the left to Crouch at the far post; Lord alone knows how the big man missed it. Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened
They are brilliant at their best, overindulgent and far too twiddly at their worst.
I smiled each time my strobe synchronised with a brilliant lightning flash just above the jetty.
The world is a much better place thanks to the brilliant mix of people it has in it. The Sun
Like a streetcorner serenade, it's got all the oooh's, aaah's, handclaps and snaps of classic doo-wop, and yet it somehow remains brilliantly, unwaveringly faithful to the original.
During my brilliant and audacious performances, my family constantly remarked that they thought I sang like Shirley Temple, only way better and a lot more adorably, and that my dancing made hers look contrived and boring. Roseanne Archy
It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
He was the blindingly brilliant light in a performance of many shadows. Times, Sunday Times
The sets and costumes are brilliant, as are the dance numbers and musical performances.
A brilliantly staged, choreographed and performed piece of theatre. Times, Sunday Times
What other character do you know of who is searingly brilliant, stunningly engaging in his rat-a-tat-tat conversational wizardly, totally and even smugly tactless and rude - and still adored? Bella DePaulo: Facebook Movie: The Arrogance of Achievement vs. the Arrogance of Inheritance
The paroquet was a splendid creature, with a brilliant orange throat darkly spotted. Birds in the Bush
Both are brilliant pianists, though they're poles apart in style.
The beauty here is the balance of juicy green apples, grapefruit, peaches and pineapple all anchored by brilliant acidity.
Like many good comedians, he is a brilliant observer and deconstructor of what we say and do, and what we really mean. The Guardian World News
How do you persuade the research council or the science supremo of an industrial research outfit to fund your brilliant new ideas?
But it is eerily impressive, like watching a brilliant young bodybuilder flexing his steroidal muscles.
He hailed dropping from fifth to tenth over two seasons as'a brilliant job '. Times, Sunday Times
His modesty and courtesy concealed brilliant intellect; this combination worked wonders. Times, Sunday Times
Maverick Pluto gives you wild creative ideas but one of them could be brilliant. The Sun
Apart from being a brilliant if flawed politician, he was up against a divided and unpopular Opposition. The Sun
If you have been pining for Dales meadows brilliant with flowers the ones by the quiet lane are fair enough, yellow with buttercups, and the verges red with campions.
It is brilliant - my skin is squeakily, shinily clean and less prone to zits. Times, Sunday Times
The demand for his personal appearances in cabaret and after dinner speeches is testimony to his brilliant wit, and his ability to develop right good humour and side-splitting laughter.
The diamond was shining brilliantly in the sun, casting tiny rainbows on her fingers.
A young woman sulking in a brilliantine dress cut through.
It would make a brilliant scene in a courtroom drama. Times, Sunday Times
One of my campers, a brilliant programmer named John Bruns, programmed the Impulse system for several popular software packages, coloring each bar in accordance with the Impulse system.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
He spoke fluently with lines that were completely brilliant.
The whole cast performs / perform brilliantly.
The brilliant scarlet sky which provided a backdrop to the ship's arrival helped persuade the five judges the picture was tops.
What are the most brilliant fancies of a child or of a mere ignorant "romancer," compared to the amazing visions of the Arctic regions or the high Alps, which we have seen? Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters
The actors insulted the hosts who had prearranged scripts with brilliant replies.
Brilliant fall sunshine and a return of light breezes from the south allow for a rapid warm up. Forecast: On and off sun with mild temps today
It's a brilliant piece of engineering at the expense of the visceral thrill. Times, Sunday Times
No need to play it, just watch it - it's brilliant for passing the hours when, in the middle of your life, you find that you have a lot of name tapes to sew on.
This victory provided a fitting finale to a brilliant season for the club.
Galina opened it to see two brilliant diamond earrings sparkling back.
The crater was still in shadow, but the floodlights mounted around its rim lit the interior brilliantly.
It has been a brilliantly written drama, riveting and full of twists and turns. The Sun
Everywhere people are promenading, basking in the miraculous light: warm, long, slanting, at once brilliant and diffuse.
Her performance was technically brilliant but lacked feeling.
Academically brilliant, she was due to go to Leeds University in September to read English and drama.
Doug and I came up with a sneaky, underhanded and brilliant plan which kept us strong and under little pressure for the first three years.
i love Apple, Toyota, Jon Stewart makes me lol as he smarms his way through my progressive beliefs, he's like a living blog! omfg have u seen ball maher? that guy is like, brilliant. Dealbreaker
Of course, it all sounds a bit fanciful, perhaps even unbelievable, unpractical, but it wasn't as though I were of a brilliant mind and had a university-destined career.
Despite brilliant daylight outside, we move through the building by torchlight.
I'VE thought of this really brilliant idea to save the country billions of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
Handel's comparisons of the works of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu are nothing short of brilliant.
Edwards himself was in brilliant brogues, razor-creased tan slacks and blazer over silk shirt and neckerchief.
The concluding episode was a total tearjerker and had brilliant writing and acting. The Sun
Set realistic goals, which Frank Typer defined brilliantly as those that are 'Beyond your grasp but within your reach.
A slight tendency towards "barracking" on the part of the crowd was quickly stifled, however, by a brilliant effort from James, who by means of all-round play built up an attractive break of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21
In 2005, in typical Roadrunner fashion, the label devised a brilliantly inventive way to celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary. Roadrunner Records Latest News
I have puled the car over often ...... but the push ups, i think it is brilliant Military mom style - SpouseBUZZ
A sugar maple, winch will flame up so brilliant orange in autumn it seems to warm the air around it.
Jupiter gives you brilliant ideas and an entertaining way of presenting them. The Sun
For all its hokeyness it is a brilliant film.
By causing only one group of colors to light, the electrician can secure all sorts of variations, and with the aid of "dimmers" permit the lights to shine brilliantly or merely to glow with faint radiance. Writing for Vaudeville
This brilliant engineer and droid technician operated out of the Minos Cluster.
You should picture to yourself the brilliant future ahead of us.
The climax to the end of a brilliant season brings a brilliant final. Times, Sunday Times
They are clever, even brilliant planners, who are now executing the first blatantly overt phase of their attack.
That's another brilliant idea down the pan.
Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery. Westward Ho!
What Jackson does so brilliantly is to capture the surrealism of family life with its impossible combination of adults forced to explain and impose standards of behaviour that collapse into ludicrousness under the stern eye and wild logic of your average four-year-old. Seeing The Funny Side « Tales from the Reading Room
Jury Comments: Among many brilliant performances we found one in particular that captivated from the first frame of the film and held us through a long and difficult journey. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
John would see my brilliant tactical plan and organize a cunning defence…
There is great depth in the Boston strings and brilliant woodwind soloists. Times, Sunday Times
While Williams made her way brilliantly through its forest of steps, the dance was more demanding than affecting.
Visibility is not brilliant, especially out of the rear hatch which provides a minimal view broken by the line where it joins the body.
The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop. Isabelle
i, film geek, proclaim the title apt and brilliant for this tragic tale. Trailer Blazer: 'Quantum of Solace' | EW.com
At nine o'clock that brilliant morning the Britannia lifted off, and he spoke to Berna. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Giving us a brilliantly provocative model of how a text can be discussed against its own expectations, this book will prove highly productive for literary studies. The Times Literary Supplement
The plan was brilliant in its conception but failed because of lack of money.
This is a brilliant work, a sensational contemporary art object that seems so easy yet is so conceptually sophisticated.
The bold typeface is a brilliant orchid color, the model facing full-on in a way not seen in US covers very often, the sense of wild times. Vampirewire.blogspot.com: US & FOREIGN BOOK COVERS | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
The cinematography is lush and superbly stylized, with an oversaturated color palate and brilliant whites bordering on overexposure.
Rear-wheel drive with that brilliant 2-litre 'boxer' engine, it's a real driver's car. The Sun
The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white.
The plant has a brilliant purple floweret.

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