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brilliant English

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brilliant

If something is brilliant, it gives off a lot of light. It was evening with the brilliant colors of sunset shining through the trees. The sun's light was so brilliant that I needed to close my eyes. The sky was a brilliant blue that day, and the air was cold. He noticed a brilliant star in the sky. If something is brilliant, it is very good. Truly brilliant ideas can sound crazy at first. She wrote a book about her brilliant career in television. If a person is brilliant, they are very intelligent. He was a brilliant teacher.

brilliant

(= superb) of surpassing excellence a brilliant performance a superb actor (= brainy) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence some men dislike brainy women a brilliant mind a brilliant solution to the problem (= glorious, magnificent, splendid) characterized by grandeur the brilliant court life at Versailles a glorious work of art magnificent cathedrals the splendid coronation ceremony full of light; shining intensely a brilliant star brilliant chandeliers (= bright, vivid) having striking color bright dress brilliant tapestries a bird with vivid plumage (= bright) clear and sharp and ringing the bright sound of the trumpet section the brilliant sound of the trumpets

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Simple sentences

That's a brilliant idea.
The snow was brilliant in the morning sun.
He became a brilliant scholar but only at the expense of his health.
She is a brilliant scholar and is everywhere recognized as such.
Both of them are very brilliant.
Stop slagging off my brilliant idea, it's not naive at all!
That is a brilliant idea that will enable us to dedicate our undivided attention to the work again.
Tom's brilliant.
Tom is brilliant.
Tom was brilliant.
I've come up with a brilliant idea.
Although he was not a native speaker, Tom wrote short stories in German at a high literary level. Due to their brilliant wit, they soon enjoyed great popularity.
John had a brilliant idea.
Brilliant!
American industry makes various attempts to find and encourage brilliant students from abroad.
A brilliant future lay before him.
She has a brilliant future.
Smiling cheerfully, the two began to walk off into their brilliant future.
Brilliant papers by Comrade Stalin allowed Soviet linguistics to take the leading position in the world.
It is because light travels faster than sound that some people look brilliant before sounding stupid.
Brilliant people have one major drawback - they don't know how to lose.
I had a brilliant idea.
I've had a brilliant idea.

Movie subtitles

The Portuguese had the brilliant idea that if they could find an alternative route, all the way around the coast of Africa, round the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean. then this business could be theirs.
Brilliant with a scalpel, lousy with directions.
Brilliant, thanks.
And it is the story also a heroine. not the brilliant, beautifully gowned. and shingled heroine of the film play-- but just and ordinary wife and mother. whose life is compassed by the four walls of her suburban home.
The most beautiful, the most brilliant. But a man grotesque and ridiculous a disgraceful man, was great.
Herr Frankenstein is a most brilliant young man, yet so erratic.
Come on, be brilliant.
Wasn't that brilliant of me, getting the Ferncliffes?
Yes, that was very brilliant of you, if you want the Ferncliffes.
Now, that's a brilliant answer.
After our hero had killed Wynant, he had a brilliant idea.
The very brilliant agent. of a certain foreign power. is on the point of obtaining a secret vital to your air defense.
There's no need to say who he is. or to speak of his brilliant record as a soldier and a statesman.
Anyhow, I little thought I should be speaking tonight. in support of that brilliant, young statesman. That rising.
Ladies and gentlemen, I raise my glass to Captain Hubert who just earned a well-deserved third stripe. To his lovely wife, our hospital's head nurse, whose beauty and competence will support her husband's brilliant career.
In your great wisdom, you have put aside all thought of a foreign alliance. however brilliant.
Anyhow, I little thought I should be speaking tonight. in support of that brilliant, young statesman. That rising. The gentleman on my right. already known among you as one destined to make. no uncertain mark in politics.
Simple-minded men might think this an opportunity for trickery. but brilliant men like yourselves will remember in what favor I stand. with the Governor in contrast to some others. and how little their words would weigh against mine.
But I've only one other brilliant suggestion to make.
Brilliant shot, Vickers.
I'm more than pleased with the brilliant success of your expedition.
There isn't a jury in England that will believe you, and, if I had the most brilliant legal mind in the world, I couldn't make them.
You've been brilliant, Dad.
I hope your next five years will be as brilliant!
That's a brilliant answer.
A brilliant idea for our book. and that we'll have to work the whole evening.
Nothing brilliant worth mentioning. not even in my memoirs!
And so my friend Morris had a brilliant idea. -With our last money, we bought a different figurehead.
I have a brilliant plan.
One day, for instance, when he'd been told by his master to carry water to fill a cauldron, he had the brilliant idea of bringing a broomstick to life to carry the water for him.

News and current affairs

The plant is expelled, and corals turn a brilliant white color.
Gillo Pontecorvo's brilliant 1966 film The Battle of Algiers spelled out the dilemma for the occupying colonial power.
Today's Silicon Valley would not be what it is without its brilliant Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs.
It was a brilliant strategic decision, allowing the firm to offer dozens of new product lines and services.
China's first currency move was brilliant only if it is not the last.
This momentous shift reflects the decimation of the FARC following long years of struggle, the resilience of Colombian society, and, perhaps most important, Santos's brilliant regional policy.
After a brilliant secondary education, Phelps entered Amherst College in Massachusetts without any specific idea about which discipline to embrace or which career to follow.
His was one of the most brilliant insights in the history of science: a mechanism that enabled the principle of evolution to unify and inform all of biology.
Rajan is a superstar academic researcher, a brilliant writer on political economy, and a former chief economist for the IMF.
The document is a brilliant lesson in development economics: it shows how to combine a full-speed ahead approach to market reforms with urgently needed attention to poverty.
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, and the other millionaires and billionaires of Microsoft are brilliant, hardworking, entrepreneurial, and justly wealthy.
Well, obviously Gatorade and Powerade would like us to drink more of their products, and getting us to gulp more than we would naturally like seems like a brilliant marketing move.
Remember, these are the type of people who once thought that selling dog food over the internet was a brilliant business strategy, and that by 2010 Qualcomm would be able to sell two mobile phones a year to everyone in the northern hemisphere.
Prices shoot up and they deem themselves brilliant.
Those advocating extremism in the name of religion are active, well resourced, and - whatever the reactionary nature of their thinking - brilliant at using modern communication and technology.
Germany's World Cup performance was a brilliant demonstration of the importance of deep, long-term reforms.
Nixon's secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, was pursuing a brilliant strategy to weaken Communism by exploiting the Sino-Soviet split.
Among the promoters of this brilliant idea were Nazi war criminals who had settled in Syria and Egypt, where they gave their new masters lessons in marking Jewish shops and businesses.
Rarely in history has a national movement marched to its Promised Land with such a brilliant display of diplomatic savoir-faire and military skill as the Zionists did on their way to statehood.
Tom Watson, Jr., who led IBM through decades of strong growth, is known for having supported brilliant blunders.
So did a director of a great bank, a brilliant economist, when he was suspected of financial crimes.
Hlavsa and his long-haired fans, celebrated in Tom Stoppard's brilliant play, Rock n'Roll, didn't want the state to spoil their party.
Space for brilliant blunders is vital to achieving the kind of creative breakthroughs that drive scientific progress.
In his speeches, I discovered the brilliant Che, mercilessly railing against inefficiency, false politics, and double standards.

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