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America has lately endured a surfeit of perfect plans, including Bush's economic growth and tax relief reconciliation act of 2001, which has brought about the gigantic and still mounting federal deficit, along with the strange, jobless economic "recovery", and Paul Wolfowitz's brilliant scheme for democratising the Middle East at no cost to the American taxpayer (Iraqi oil was going to amply pay for both the invasion and reconstruction).

The same cushions lined the back wall of my tiny study, of which one wall was all windows so that brilliant light came in, only I covered them with white cotton spreads.

Yeah, I'm thinking: To-die-for brilliant.

And not intimidating--or only as intimidating as the brilliant-beautiful can't help being, no matter how accessible they seem.

But a couple of spikes later he hatches a brilliant scheme: He'll make it look like she did it.

Kernberg College began, interestingly, as a music academy for orphans; and it is the old music hall, housed in its bizarre, turreted, allegedly haunted mansion atop College Hill, that best captures the benevolent spirit — at least this seemed true to me, that night, looking out at everything from the Pancake House — of our brilliant, glowing city.

If people asked him what his degree was in he always said `Joints,' which he thought was a brilliant joke.

As the world reduces to a small brilliant space, where every thought and move is vital to one's salvation, one's scattered energy suddenly has a center.

An ulterior comment on Lillian's father paints the classic dreamer with a brilliant scheme for success who, like so many others, needed only some money to prevent losing "his brain-child to others."The first of these stems from a brilliantly succinct essay of Gerard von Rad's Das formgeschichtliche Problem des Hexateuchs of 1938.

When JFK became president, those of us who elected him felt we were on the threshold of a new and brilliant era.

I revered painters and counted as my close friends three young men who painted brilliantly.

Catholic bishops were understandably glad that brilliant and influential men and women had decided that Rome represented the one true church, and delighted to learn that they were willing to put their skills at the service of Catholicism.

If a comet, it was a ball of dirty ice, spewing out gases boiled off by the heat of the Sun, and it announced impending doom with a shimmering head and a brilliant tail splashed across half the sky, illuminating the night, and finally visible even in the daytime as Armageddon approached.

Gerald saw his father as `worldly, cynical, intolerant of any kind of inferiority, reserved and self-possessed' and again `curious, moody, rather brilliant'.

It was, she said to no one in particular as she stepped out into the brilliant September sunshine, "a beautiful day, just beautiful."She clung to the crook of his left arm and skimmed along next to him in her brilliant red coat.


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