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brilliant

[bril-yuhnt] / ˈbrɪl jənt /




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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

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

Around the islands, shallow waters glow in brilliant shades of turquoise, contrasting sharply with the dark blue of the deeper surrounding ocean.

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

The sky was dark, except for the light of the full moon and brilliant stars.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Five days a week, 14 hours a day, he squints through nine newspapers and bends over his typewriter like a jeweler, chipping and polishing at the hard little brilliants for his program.

From Time Magazine Archive

Archbishop Diaz stooped, puffed, fumbled, handed the brilliants pontifically to an attendant, and the fiesta went on.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I did not regard the gift as valuable for the brilliants and opals," continued he, "but as conveying the love of my mother; and surely Marjory cannot reject that love."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton


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