Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
F. brillant, (p. pr.) of briller, to shine or sparkle (cf. Pr. & Sp. brillar, It. brillare,), fr. L. beryllus, a precious stone of sea-green color, Prov. It. brill,. See Beryl
Several brilliant actions spread the military renown of the English through regions where no European flag had ever been seen.
"Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)" by Thomas Babington Macaulay
While probably never quite as snappy and brilliant as the regular brilliant cut, a well-proportioned step cut stone can be very brilliant.
"A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public" by Frank Bertram Wade
The brilliant colour streamed into her cheeks.
"The Master Mummer" by E. Phillips Oppenheim
It had the appearance of brilliant rays.
"A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century" by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
He was a brilliant conversationalist, and his tastes, like my father's, were decidedly literary.
"As I Remember" by Marian Gouverneur
He was full of humour as well as of solid common-sense, and his literary style is brilliant.
"Pioneers of Science" by Oliver Lodge
She herself knew well, none better, that her weapons were small and her chance of success not particularly brilliant.
"The Time of Roses" by L. T. Meade
A diamond is no less brilliant because set in clay.
"Social Life" by Maud C. Cooke
Already its light like a brilliant moon was brightening the forward deck-space.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930" by Various
Paris had laid aside its mourning weeds, and a gay and brilliant carnival succeeded its dismal days of gloom.
"Henry IV, Makers of History" by John S. C. Abbott
A murky light thou didst not give,
But brilliant, clear!
Thy deeds of piety shall live
Full many a year.
"In Memoriam, On The Late Right Reverend Richard Allen, First Bishop Of The A. M. E. Church" by Benjamin Cutler Clark
My father was a perfect man,
clean and rich and fat.
My mother was a brilliant thing.
She was good at that.
"Cripples And Other Stories" by Anne Sexton
Of late I saw thee laughing,
Thy jovial friends among,
The brilliant goblet quaffing,
The wildest of the throng.
"Song" by Charlotte Dacre
Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Coming about its own business
"The Thought-Fox" by Ted Hughes
You ask why I am lonely now,
In all this brilliant scene,
And why I look on beauty's charms,
With cold, unalter'd mien.
"You Ask Why I Am Lonely Now" by James Avis Bartley
Then behind the clouds of evening,
Shaded all those pleasures lie:
Virtue only, ever brilliant,
Can illume an evening sky.
"An Effusion" by Elizabeth Bath
Everyone's favorite scene from My So-Called Life is the brilliant Hallway Hand-holding Sequence.
I took a lot of heat when I left the city nearly eight years ago to explore what I thought was the most brilliant opportunity.
The Three-Pointer: Kevin Garnett's frenzied , and brilliant, return.
For this bizarre story I thank the incomparable Vaughan Bell, who writes brilliantly on all things neuro, psych, and weird.
"Some of the stuff on is insanely brilliant and some is just insane," Mandel says.
Most brilliant insights come to me while I'm gasping .
Edward Albee's brilliant The Play About the Baby is really a play about age, life and experience.
Gianni Versace , the man who brought rock, art, sexuality and brilliant color into contemporary fashion, was shot to death yesterday outside his home in Miami Beach.
The brilliant senior running back guaranteed a Michigan win over Notre Dame after the Wolverines' fell to 0-2 earlier this season.
For the most sophisticated impact, choose one feature—cheeks, nails, or lips—to highlight with brilliant color.
I guess a guy fainted on his show the other day and the dude is actually advocating secession, but whatever, I don't care about any of that, I'm just interested in Glenn Beck-as-brilliant-performance-artist.
Brilliant Venus is in the west at sunset, with Mars high in the south and Saturn in the southeast.
One that's remained unmatched over the years is Fekkai Brilliant Glossing Cream.
It's brilliantly designed and amazingly functional.
I can't even imagine how brilliant these chats are going to be once the lockout ends.
Cold molecules indeed open entirely new avenues for fascinating research, as it is brilliantly -sometimes ”romantically”- expressed in several broadscope papers.
Formation and interactions of cold and ultracold molecules: new challenges for interdisciplinary physics
Today this research ﬁeld is called particle cosmology and has achieved brilliant success.
Cosmological Constraints on a Massive Neutrino
For nominal LHC operations, the crossing angle is θc = 285 µm and F ∼ 0.8. A brilliant solution to this problem could come from the development of crab RF cavities [34, 35], whose role is to tilt the bunches before they enter the IR, ensuring their total overlap when they cross, as shown in ﬁg. 11(b).
That was the best advice I’ve heard in a long time!”; “brilliant astro-ph submission! I think this will be a mandatory read for any students that want to go on to grad school.’; “Thanks for your insightful and very funny paper on astro-ph.
Are astronomical papers with more authors cited more?
Thanks to their brilliant conﬁrmation by reactor and accelerator experiments, oscillations constitute the only viable explanation for the observed ﬂavor conversion of “celestial” neutrinos [1–3], requiring both neutrino mass and mixing, as expected in theories without conserved lepton number [4, 5].
Status of Neutrino Theory