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brilliant

[bril-yuhnt] / ˈbrɪl yənt /




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At the beginning of the war, I filmed brilliant young men tinkering in forest huts, using 3-D printers to build their first “birds of fire.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Ehrlich’s life is a lesson that brilliant men can become captive to bad ideas that become intellectual fashion and do great harm.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the stormy light, the trees were a brilliant green.

From Literature

The San Fernando Valley native is a brilliant director who has made sprawling, messy epics about imperfect people synonymous with his name, like John Ford with Westerns or A24 with art house flicks.

From Los Angeles Times

Is it a tremendously brilliant show of ignorance?

From Literature