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Almost every home appeared as if studded with diamonds in a glorious sunlight, so brilliant were the bond fires.

Because his songs were brilliant; people have never been able to copy them.

To compound the joke, the film is “The Ten Commandments.” This is the sort of situation from which, in his Berlin period, he wrung brilliant, cackling ironies.

At the same time we learn this, another shipmate emerges, and here the story almost takes a welcome turn for the brilliant before settling back into an ordinary adventure story.

Is she really carrying on an affair with a hunky cardiologist, or is it all in her head?Tautou trades on her cutie- pie persona to brilliant effect in delivering the answer.

You want elegant language?Oscar Wilde's 1895 script remains unparalleled, a brilliant stretch of barbs and bon mots.

Tom Shales wrote in the Washington Post that it was “a peek into the life and mind of a brilliant creative talent who is also clearly a huge pain in the neck and has no TV presence whatsoever.” Belinda Acosta, a TV critic for the Austin Chronicle, had fewer reservations.

For the elitist yogis among us, the "Gurus" compilation is brilliant.

In a brilliant analysis of the evidence assembled against Mary, Guy convincingly exonerates her from involvement in the murder, but finds her guilty of serious errors of judgment.

His testimony was brilliant and succinct: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” He was an immediate celebrity.

Meanwhile, Bolton Wanderers lose for five weeks the very fulcrum of their team in Nigeria's brilliant Jay Jay Okocha.

As a strategy in the culture wars, their maneuver is a brilliant one.

From an often brilliant French artist, a flawed installation piece involving moving walls that gently herd visitors into a makeshift theater (the good part) to watch a video (not so good) about the homey, slightly forlorn celebration of a new housing development.

Pure heaven: nearly three dozen early sculptures, small enough to hold in your hands, and a few drawings, brilliant riffs on de Kooning.

(p 35) Global consciousness was already present in Nehru's brilliant mind.

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