brilliancy
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But Pollock claimed the event’s brilliancy prize in an upset of Austrian star Max Weiss, who would tie for first in the event.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
And that was, I think, really the brilliancy of the film.
From Fox News ● Nov. 19, 2019
At a dinner party, she shines with the “revolving brilliancy that collective approval always struck from her.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
“Europeans coming to America are surprised by the brilliancy of our autumnal foliage,” the proud Yankee bragged.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011
Bobby’s remuneration from the American Chess Foundation for his sparkling brilliancy?
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Some of the film’s brilliancies are purely decorative.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
I wanted instant brilliancies; refused to do the slog of reading books, and saw chess as an art not a science.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2016
They win more by avoiding errors than with brilliancies, as in the diagramed deal from the match against Estonia.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2010
Coward was to proceed in his many-faceted brilliancies, and when all three were firmly and separately established in fame, they were to "meet and act triumphantly together."
From Time Magazine Archive
It took no little time to shed these disagreeable impressions, even once the brilliancies of the symphony were cast up around me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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