brilliancy
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The first woman ever awarded the grandmaster title, the Georgian great still has game, capable of fashioning a long, grueling positional brilliancy.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2019
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
The only way this "brilliancy" will be less than another disaster would be for him to turn into a third-baseman to replace the washed-up David Wright.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2016
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
Instead of going through a radio bulb, they go through an arc light whose brilliancies they modify according to the varying transparencies of the sending film.
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
