What could have been an unfocused art movie is raised above the ordinary by Bill Murray's comic brilliance. |
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Suddenly, a strobing flash of cyan brilliance erupted from the dim recesses at the far corner of the chamber. |
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She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play. |
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But his brilliance was often offset by his erraticism, and this erraticism infuriated her. |
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The sky was a dome of palest glass, and the sun sparkled on the snow, and everywhere was a purity and brilliance almost beyond bearing. |
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For too long, we have valued effortless brilliance, like the Oxford double first. |
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I am stunned into inaction by the brilliance of Darren's un-celebrity desktop wallpapers. |
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He had that same erudite quaver that suggested madness or brilliance and probably both. |
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He did that with more style, grace, brilliance and dominance than anyone I saw in more than four decades of talking to people in jocks. |
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It was not just the precocious brilliance of his jockeyship but his heritage. |
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For here is a player who can turn a game in an instant, can lift a team with a moment of daring and brilliance. |
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Her brilliance at the keyboard is an inspirational example of how talent can overcome adversity. |
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Yet however good it is, it seems rather tame compared to the provocative brilliance of his earlier work. |
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But when I hear them afresh, they never fail to amaze me by their brilliance. |
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It is a firm belief that this inner light can be kindled to brilliance through yogic practices. |
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The young Ali was pure boxing brilliance, backing up his bravado with breathtaking speed of hand and foot and sublime skills. |
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They cut glass, they refract light into perfect hearts-and-arrows, and they have superlative fire and brilliance. |
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Awash with glittering gold, adorned in yellowy brilliance, the jewellery designers cut a new path, defiantly and creatively. |
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It's not really fair to demand musical brilliance from remixes, although it can be done. |
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He displays flashes of directorial brilliance, particularly in terms of the relationships between the characters, and the performances are solid. |
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They have been embellished with red enamel spots and have high mirror polished rhodium tips to add to the brilliance. |
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Six sets of brilliance had taken him through the final two rounds as he cut Andy Roddick and then Mark Philippoussis to ribbons. |
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The brilliance of the Right was in wildly and irresponsibly staking outrageous positions. |
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Boxing will be in for a treat if any of the class of 2004 show even a flash of their brilliance. |
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Line after line, image after image, dazzles with its appositeness and brilliance. |
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Favre is a passer whose brilliance is based on a huge arm and a nifty ability to avoid the rush. |
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Kelly's brilliance inspired his team-mates and the remainder of the game saw Waterford launch many attacks at the visitors' goal. |
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The handsome bay had a lot of brilliance, but a times lost his focus, including skipping into the canter in his first medium trot. |
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Pamela waited, breathing in the salt air, gazing up at the brilliance above. |
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The link between creativity, brilliance and madness has long fascinated us, but is there any basis to it? |
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At the same time I wanted to show that Tamil films are not inferior to other language films in content and technical brilliance. |
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There was a lot of positives for the away side aside from the win with the obvious one being Hazard's individual brilliance. |
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Back at Walton Hall he set grimly to work, applying his taxidermal brilliance to a hideous revenge. |
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The sun rose behind the Tower, backlighting it in the brilliance of a sunrise. |
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Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era. |
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He is far from the finished article and his game yesterday was a mix of schoolboy errors and flashes of brilliance. |
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The girl or woman he was addressing seemed to be expected to sit in silence, marvelling at the brilliance of the person orating at her. |
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While not a master tactician, he occasionally displayed flashes of brilliance. |
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Derek went to a secondary modern school and was not noted for academic brilliance, but he was good at making things with his hands. |
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He is undoubtedly a man of extraordinary brilliance whose writings are incisive, insightful, and securely based on facts. |
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Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying. |
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He played with easy beguiling brilliance, like neon light, at times erupting into shards of pure ecstatic electric yearning. |
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Brief moments of brilliance gave the crowd room for cheer but it was all too fleeting. |
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But Bradman's brilliance is perhaps best illustrated by one of his rare failures, his final Test innings when he was bowled for a duck. |
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Personally Mike combined intellectual brilliance with tremendous charm and wit. |
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The text is lavishly illustrated, with many colour images attesting to the brilliance of Sienese art. |
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Right now you're either dazzling the general populace with brilliance or charming them with blarney. |
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He's a truly talented bloke and it's such a shame that nobody who matters has picked up on his brilliance. |
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They continued to grow in size and brilliance until the lights of the bay area filled the windows around him. |
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But last week I was moved by the illuminating brilliance or muddling complexity of the smaller questions. |
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The stars at night have a special brilliance undimmed by city lights and close to the door of the cottage there are glowworms. |
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The recording balances warmth and brilliance, and the booklet notes are helpful, given the unfamiliarity of the music. |
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But her Justine grounds the movie too much, keeping it an everyday slice of life when it could become a work of unbridled operatic brilliance. |
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There are movies to see for their artistic unity, visual brilliance, or dramatic power. |
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The necklace is famous for its unmatched brilliance and extraordinary design. |
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People who, presumably, were hired because of their obvious brilliance do these unspeakably stupid things. |
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The band kept the audience in a head-bobbing, toe-tapping trance as they soldiered through two hours of Morrison and company's brilliance. |
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The sky was clear, the sky velvet black, the stars hard in their brilliance. |
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Stars popped into brilliance with cap-gun like cracks, making me think of exploding light bulbs. |
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The blue light flashed its brilliance once more, and the library faded back in existence around them. |
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As the morning sun shined brightly the sea reflected it's brilliance, sparkling in every direction. |
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The sun caught a piece of quartz in the granite and lit the brilliance embedded there. |
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Additionally, the crystal was intensifying the light from her flashlight, and the resulting brilliance was near-blinding. |
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The sheer brilliance of the light makes it difficult to judge the tones of the outdoor scenes he has painted. |
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Every now and then, there emerges a star, which, by its sheer brilliance, throws light far from where it originated. |
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In truth, space is a very bright place with incalculable flashes of brilliance filling trillions upon trillions of light years. |
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Closer to the moon, the numbers of the stars dwindled for the brilliance of the light from the moon overrode it. |
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She saw the ripples in the water flowing towards that light, towards the brilliance in the dark. |
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The rounded flakes, with less surface area to reflect light, lose brilliance. |
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Mia cried out in surprise of the brilliance of the light while the vampire hissed fiercely. |
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They were a red brilliance and gave the whole stone flooring a colour of blood. |
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Up in the ceiling, spherical crystals of light bars radiated a brilliance of pale white. |
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Henry's natural inspiration partially comes from the excitement, brilliance and magnificence from the art world. |
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We exalt effortless brilliance, we celebrate talent and the achievement that comes easily, naturally. |
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During a long job interview process, consistency counts much more than flashes of brilliance. |
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The authority, stamina, cool brilliance, and power of Nilsson's singing are evident throughout these two discs. |
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However the Clan has shown flashes of brilliance this season, and a strong finish is not out of their reach. |
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This wealth of sample-worthy material draws Axelrod's brilliance to light even further. |
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Beyond all that, he has an extraordinary sense of brilliance in shaping the film. |
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It's intellectually stimulating and continually entertaining with moments of brilliance that will stay with you. |
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For a system that boasts a dispassionate reliance on artistic brilliance as its arbiter, this anomaly is a crisis. |
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With understated brilliance, she uses typical photographic structures to picture atypical family groupings. |
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But there is a sort of understated, brilliance to this funk track, more easily appreciated after several listenings. |
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The dialogue is pitch-perfect, the acting a model of understated brilliance. |
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That a thirteen-year-old could play Beethoven with such accuracy and brilliance astonished the senses! |
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The strategic brilliance, wisdom and noble character of Washington made it possible, I believe. |
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Two of the ballet's encounters stood out, imbued with a kind of artistic brilliance befitting their underlying influence. |
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Incandescence by the way means a high degree of emotion, intensity and brilliance. |
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After six decades on the world's concert stages, Rosand's artistry and technical brilliance remain undiminished. |
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Both have an amiable and easy exterior that often veils their technical brilliance. |
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All in all, the brilliance and vibrancy of Edgar Allan Poe's tales are derived from a world that he knew all too well. |
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Rather than hard driving, power pounding brilliance, the duo-pianists brought musicality and idiomatic style to a memorable performance. |
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Jupiter's celestial brilliance portrays vitality, power, strength, and freedom of will. |
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At best, this is a movie populated by flashes of brilliance among its general stagnancy. |
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The show must be seen for the brilliance and no-nonsense artistry of its leading lady, our delightful dame of the calceolarias. |
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The champion, who won both Epsom's Derby and its Oaks, is riding with his customary brilliance and resolve. |
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The abscissae give the brilliance measured in international candles per square millimetre. |
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A crucial element of Fiedler's brilliance as a critic was the generous capaciousness of his responses. |
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A single flame from an oil lamp can kindle countless other lamps without losing any of its own brilliance or warmth. |
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A diamond is a gem excelling in brilliance and remarkable for extreme hardness. |
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The haute couture collection bears the nucleus of the full blossoming of the brilliance that was the fall 2004 collection. |
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The low winter sun is much more favourable for good photography than high summer brilliance. |
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I am overawed by their brilliance, in what once must have been seen as an impossible task. |
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At 4 am on the 10th, I got up, reached up to the Milky Way and did a few chin-ups among the dazzling brilliance of the stars. |
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Nield essayed the daunting, high lying solo flute line with brilliance and a lustrous tonal palette. |
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Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance. |
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Maradia is not the product of an expensive private school or aspiring middle class parents who hope to hothouse her into academic brilliance. |
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This was a lead-based glass, comparable in its brilliance and clarity to fine rock crystal. |
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Ever since, lions have been portrayed in art, myth and iconography as powerful symbols of solar strength, supremacy, glory, light and brilliance. |
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They get suckered into the incoherency and think it's pure brilliance, when in reality, it's a waste of two hours. |
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We sat laughing and gasping in awe at the writing, the delivery and the sheer brilliance of Britain's best stand-up comic. |
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Occasionally the orchestra tended to overpower her, but the brilliance of her playing left an indelible impression. |
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She will be well remembered for her role as matriarch of a large family her indomitable spirit and brilliance at the piano. |
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The forest let light in with such brilliance and beauty it was breathtaking. |
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There is little point in wallowing in the brilliance of Bacon if you don't recognise him as a moralist first and last. |
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The material and the production technology have been optimized to heighten contrast and achieve brilliance. |
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His imaginative brilliance is most apparent in his inventive and often witty designs for furniture and metalwork. |
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That last minute of swooping sound floors you, pins you with its brilliance. |
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Finally, as the blazing star appeared high over the island, the glow coruscated into incredible brilliance and began the nightly display. |
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We had mimosa trees that evoked images of Hawaii with their flowerage of pink brilliance. |
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In any case, such is the pace and brilliance of the narrative that one feels that one can forgive the author almost anything. |
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The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman. |
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Performed with such brilliance, they aptly recreate genuine folk music of the era. |
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Its brilliance was to permit the rearming of Germans but not the rearmament of Germany. |
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And with a great leap of logical brilliance, he deduced that he was looking at a ceiling. |
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The moments of brilliance and detached profundities are engulfed by too many false starts and half-baked ideas. |
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Thus it is that one often comes across a line of startling beauty and brilliance in an otherwise putrescent poem or page of prose. |
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Add to that the pyrotechnic brilliance of Ted Turner and there's a volatile brew ready to explode. |
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This grimly comical tone, with its overtly sly humor, is what ultimately elevates the film to a level of near brilliance. |
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Both were above average, and when Milton got in a groove, he displayed flashes of brilliance. |
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I'm getting emails and phone calls enthusing over my brilliance and insight when I guested on the Hugh Hewitt show last night. |
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I was willing to take the risk of having an enemy in my midst in order to get a hold of your brilliance. |
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Many writers have commented on the brilliance of Trotsky and the dullness of Stalin. |
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The triangle for once doesn't play as if afraid it will never be heard from again, while the piccolo stands out for its cleanliness of tone and brilliance. |
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The bay Hanoverian has been owned throughout his career by Fritz Kundrun and Dressage Sponsor Corp., and Blinks has worked slowly and carefully to harness his brilliance. |
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Edge continues to launch intellectual skyrockets of stunning brilliance. |
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Jacques-Louis Lions was a man of considerable personal magnetism and charm, whose charisma, brilliance as a teacher, and accessibility attracted other to work with him. |
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Here was intellectual brilliance aligned with spiritual profundity. |
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Not a cloud was in sight and the stars shone with brilliance. |
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Sometimes we make our achievements possible not by brilliance or talent but by the sheer, dogged determination that leads us to get up each day and try again. |
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His personal history is inspiring, as is his intellectual brilliance, knowledge of and detestation of fascism, communism and morally repugnant capitalism. |
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Today, it appears that their brilliance still remains unequalled. |
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It seemed almost a torch of brilliance, a flaring star in the night sky. |
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Fowler, whose brilliance defies her slight figure, plugged through to strike partner Helen Wix, who earned a short corner off the foot of Bethan Walsh. |
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It is easy to be blinded by the brilliance of that balmy Melbourne night. |
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Prefiguring Expressionist chiaroscuro in their tonal brilliance, they achieve the seemingly impossible brief of ensnaring the transitory temperament of meteorological effects. |
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At college, Peirce earned a reputation for arrogance, brilliance, iconoclasm, dangerous mood swings, and dissipation, behaviors owing in part to neurological pathologies. |
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On the other hand, I am something of a bookworm, and nothing appeals to a bookworm more than the opportunity to show off your intellectual brilliance. |
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This record attempts to prove nothing, and therein lies its brilliance. |
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Evidently, his divine brilliance is too great for mere mortals. |
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His photographs sing at you from the wall with squeaky-clean, glossy brilliance and his models are a class above even the best Blue Peter efforts. |
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Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre. |
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Murdoch is endlessly fascinating to watch because his talents and brilliance are equaled only by his amorality. |
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And I'll be there, trying once again to convince anyone who will listen about the brilliance of the biathlon. |
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That has its breakthroughs, and its brilliance, but something is lost when humor becomes as fragmented as politics. |
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The brilliance of this scene, and this season, is that there are no good guys and bad guys. |
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As TechCrunch pointed out, the brilliance in its bare bones appeal could reach a worth of one billion dollars. |
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But this soft and greedy subversive organelle is no match for the brilliance of our scientists! |
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For all the cartoonish antics of The Office, the brilliance of it was that none of its characters were cartoons. |
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According to St. Epiphanies of Cyprus, the colour of jacinth can be compared to the brilliance of burning fire and its glow is like that of the ember. |
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He is a narcissistic rogue who is utterly convinced of his own brilliance and superiority to those around him. |
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The second, though not quite matching the first's coruscating brilliance, was still peppered with hysterical moments and the usual quota of toe-curling tomfoolery. |
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For all his technocratic brilliance, however, Gamal desperately lacks any hint of a common touch. |
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For the past week, one has heard the clarity and brilliance of his vision. |
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Where did the ambition and intellectual brilliance come from? |
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Marmion observes a stereotype of the peasantry, snub-nosed, heavy-jawed, tousle-haired, as they shade their eyes from the brilliance of the alerting angel. |
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What Pons lacked in brilliance, he made up for in aggression and energy. |
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The Moon's glow casting its light on her form, her white tunic dress, glowing with the brilliance of the Moon, her alabaster skin, smooth and unmarred in the light. |
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In more recent years, Brando's brilliance as an actor was overshadowed by his eccentric reclusion, the turmoil in his family life and financial disputes. |
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It stole our chance to take the big steps on the world stage that would have coloured us with brilliance and we could have sat there shining for the world to see. |
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That frontal assaults sometimes succeeded despite enormous casualties speaks more of soldierly courage and fortitude than any general's brilliance. |
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On the one hand, he and his players are top-notch, finding moments of melodic brilliance as they hopscotch from folk to funk, world beat to cosmic elevator jazz. |
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This collocation of precocious poetic essence, stupefying lyricism and seditious brilliance sets up Rimbaud as the Romantic-Modern poet par excellence. |
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The brilliance of The Michael J. Fox Show is that, as Mike Henry, Fox is essentially playing a meta version of himself. |
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He pouts and sulks, but achieves moments of inspired brilliance. |
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With color, vulgarity, and brilliance, Thompson makes it clear how and why he unabashedly supports McGovern over Nixon. |
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He sets up scenes of surreal brilliance, like the estranged husband practising tennis shots in an empty swimming pool, while his wife entertains her masseur in the bedroom. |
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Politics beckoned, not just because it offered an outlet for his rhetorical brilliance and restless ambition, but also because MPs were immune from prosecution. |
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It is as if all my cells respond to their brilliance and become light too. |
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The idea that January 1st initiates a period of new beginning is not a flash of Hallmark brilliance. |
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With his astonishing mix of blarney and brilliance, personal empathy and political calculation, he could have walked off the pages of a southern novel. |
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Though there are glimmers of brilliance, quite frankly, too many of the songs are too mediocre to fulfill the potential of an intimate, listenable live album. |
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Theobald put forward his archdeacon, Thomas Becket, the son of a London merchant, who had demonstrated the brilliance of his mind in Theobald's service. |
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It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night. |
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Her tones were rich but muted, especially a satin of Prussian blue, while she added brilliance to chic black evening gowns with splashes of fuchsia insets or beadwork. |
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If truth be told, however, The Beatles' first appearance owed not a little of its brilliance to the Dark Ages that preceded it, certainly where native pop is concerned. |
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Picotee's face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement. |
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The beach was conspicuous, not just because of the brilliance of its coralline sand but because of the absence of the waste products of human society. |
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During this period, however, the brilliance of the moon and stars, and the reflected light of the sun from below the horizon confer twilight, not darkness, to the region. |
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In the next game he tried even harder and scored 55 points in a game of coruscating brilliance, one of the great individual performances in any team sport. |
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When it comes to the Super Furry Animals, there is very little these Welsh electro-psych popsters can do that doesn't ooze with artistic brilliance and clever musicianship. |
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His wit and brilliance made him the darling of the popular cause. |
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Some are songs that other bands now play, but, in his hands, they emerge as individual gems glimmering in the brilliance of his unique arrangements. |
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Once McEwan loses his grip of the book's otherworldliness and dream-like brilliance, there's only one to way to go. |
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Hardy almost immediately recognised Ramanujan's extraordinary albeit untutored brilliance, and Hardy and Ramanujan became close collaborators. |
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In his last years, he raised the art of the portrait miniature to its first peak of brilliance. |
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Westward I saw the zodiacal light mingling with the yellow brilliance of the evening star. |
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Although Johnson admired Burke's brilliance, he found him a dishonest politician. |
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Notwithstanding his technical brilliance as a director, Hitchcock relied on his writers a great deal. |
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Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles. |
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In this way he was able to achieve a unique crystalline brilliance of image. |
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Under the Almohad dynasty Morocco experienced a period of prosperity and brilliance of learning. |
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He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. |
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The plot thickens in a 300-page Jamesian manner full of the very best in late-style language and analytic brilliance. |
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And temerously, his hands went over her, over the salt, compact brilliance of her body. |
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The Peter Principle is a flash of brilliance so profound that examples of it in practice instantly come to mind. |
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The brilliance of Birmingham city centre simply serves to amplify the sheer dowdiness of other parts of the city. |
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His brilliance in the 1990 World Cup, and his overactive lachrymals, made him a global star. |
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Van Buren disagrees, arguing that the brilliance of these hot spots suggests star clusters produced the radiation, not a supernova. |
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Rivkin and Sutherland can hardly contain their admiration for Pfizer's brilliance in naming its love drug. |
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The new pigment additions are Aqua, Indigo, Magenta, and Copper, all characterized by their high brilliance, purity, and chromaticity. |
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A shameless PR puff piece packed with showbiz crawlers lauding Gary's God-like brilliance. |
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Despite his gumshoe appellation, Banks never gets to exhibit ratiocinative brilliance or to engage in intricate spadework. |
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Entranced by the serenity of Southern Europe's Mediterranean coastline, I basked in the sun's brilliance as it shimmied across the azure water. |
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The chakras contain a great deal of information about our history and talents, as well as our brilliance, which is yet to be explored. |
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The sun spun aloft, an erumpent orb of balling glory thrilling the blue sky with its brilliance. |
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There was individual brilliance, of course, in the vision of Lionel Messi, the meticulousness of Xavi, and the finishing of David Villa. |
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She almost forgot Toby while she was bathed in this flustering brilliance of light and noise. |
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The apparent incompetence of the Senate, and the brilliance of Marius, had been put on full display. |
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Other Diamonds attacked the opposition only spasmodically in a curate's egg performance of brilliance and wastefulness. |
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Unlike fellow emigre Richard Neutra, Schindler never knew how to translate brilliance into sweet talk and guru-like pontification. |
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He doesn't normally score too many tap-ins, they are always moments of brilliance. |
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Respectively, these all impact the perceptions of colorfulness, brilliance and observer variability, the inverse of which can be considered observer similarity. |
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The 40-year-old Canadian Nash complimented the 26-year-old Asian-American Lin who has shown flashes of brilliance previously with the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets. |
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Each Facets of Fire diamond is cut with extra facets in a unique faceting arrangement exclusive to Keepsake that results in a diamond of maximum brilliance. |
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It focuses on productive art in place of circulative art with the intention to provide an opportunity or platform to emerging artists to show their brilliance and imagination. |
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Yet more brass and strings soulful brilliance from his album The Lady Killer that remains in the top 20 more than 10 months after it was released. |
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Forget everything you've heard about their brilliance and foresightedness. |
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But time and again, Argentines forgave his faults because of his undeniable brilliance on the soccer field, his almost divinelike inspiration at times. |
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In histories of Methodism, he often appears as a somewhat bureaucratic figure, admired for his diligence and indefatigableness rather than his brilliance. |
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According to biographer John Ehrman, Pitt inherited brilliance and dynamism from his father's line, and a determined, methodical nature from the Grenvilles. |
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Their emphasis on brilliance of colour was a reaction to the excessive use of bitumen by earlier British artists, such as Reynolds, David Wilkie and Benjamin Robert Haydon. |
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