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“Wives” shares some of the same impulses of Caryl Churchill’s brilliant, time-hopping feminist comedy “Top Girls,” but the comparison isn’t really a fair one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

While its telescopes continued scanning the distant universe, unusually generous winter rains brought the surrounding outback to life in a brilliant display of wildflowers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Pretty much all landmarks, even the one that, Kubrick groused, reduced him to a “hired hand”—1960’s “Spartacus,” a brilliant mid-century epic but not really Kubrickian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

This is the brilliant way writer-director Jesse Eisenberg thrusts us into his third — and best — feature, “The Debut,” screening at this year’s New York Film Festival and premiering in theaters December 11.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

As I play, one by one, the kids change form to brilliant beams of light.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Other items: > An agate bowl mounted in gold, fine stones, brilliants and rubies, with two enameled gold sirens, bearing baskets of fruit, poised on the rim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed Archbishop Diaz saw two brilliants tumble to the altar.

From Time Magazine Archive

At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises.

From Time Magazine Archive

The peasants, quivering with avarice, scuttle off to the appointed spot and dig up the treasure: an iron casket crammed with smoldering brilliants.

From Time Magazine Archive

A page stood beside the queen holding a crown, which glittered with false brilliants upon a richly embroidered pillow, and when the king knelt before her, she placed it upon his head.

From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson