| 单词 | brilliant |
| 例句 | On the way home Mom has the brilliant idea that what I need are some of those warm-up pants with zippers that run all the way up the sides of the legs. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z And had Dumbledore truly left her to her fate while he went off to Hogwarts, to prove himself brilliant and talented? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She didn’t think she was brilliant or anything, but she did want people to like and miss her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z That general the papers had us believe was so fine—brilliant, they called him—what does he plan? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The other two, a boy and a girl, were exceptionally beautiful and brilliant, seeming to have inherited the finest qualities, in looks and character, of their parents. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Or this apartment before which a white man stood, dressed in a brilliant uniform? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Her nose is tiny, her eyebrows are close to her eyes, and everything about her is bright and brilliant, like someone turned up the highlights on her real-life filter. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We all looked in silence at Mrs. Wilson who removed a strand of hair from over her eyes and looked back at us with a brilliant smile. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It seemed with so much protocol, I would never get to draw the brilliant and lush and wild world brimming over inside me. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He thinks it would be brilliant to have a young First Witch.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One of them is my friend, a beautiful, brilliant woman who works in advertising. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I tell her: we were dead, and then Ben managed to spin the car in just the right way, like some kind of brilliant vehicular ballerina. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z As we already know, Mrs Wormwood's hair was dyed a brilliant platinum blonde, very much the same glistening silvery colour as a female tightrope-walker's tights in a circus. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was proud, haughty, impatient with less brilliant minds, grasping in its search for knowledge the way a conqueror grasps for power. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But not many compared with the number of brilliant sofa spuds. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Ms. Kolbinsky waits where the sidewalk starts, brilliant in her yellow, black, and orange sheath dress. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I watch him for a moment, waiting for him to expose those brilliant eyes to the world again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The Time cover story, an all-purpose certification of celebrity in that era, enhanced Ernest’s fame among the lay public, which was happy to offer unsolicited advice and criticism to the brilliant young American scientist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The sky above burns brilliant and clean without a single cloud from horizon to horizon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The earth, where it was worn bald under the gate, was cracked, and hard as rock, a lifeless tan color; and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “That getup really does something for you, Janey-Jane. I can see why you take your training and all that so serious. You belong to this life. You’ll be a brilliant Attendant.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z His letters told me little of his day-to-day life, which I guessed to be frustratingly dull for such a brilliant wizard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When she sees me filming, she immediately flashes a brilliant smile. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Above him a brilliant confusion of lights glared down. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A 20-knot breeze raked the ridge, blowing a plume of spindrift far over the Kangshung Face, but overhead the sky was an achingly brilliant blue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They moved off through the snow, carving deep trenches behind them as they walked around the building, keeping to the shadows beneath the brilliant windows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, so getting yourself killed is your next brilliant trick. I guess that would just about top your current one.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Ahead, on the western horizon, clouds lay heaped and brilliant, riven with chasms of darkness, their tops drawn out in the high-altitude winds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After the murders I was consumed by sadness for my brilliant and lovable twin, who had never been considered good enough, and would never be able to confront our parents as an adult. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z He cackled so hard a brilliant tear like a giant diamond rolled down his cheek. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The tortoise fixed his gaze upon it, cherishing the only relief in that brilliant landscape. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z So I know I should’ve been a brilliant detective or whatever, but in actuality I was one of the least observant people I’d ever met. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z But, instead of stopping, they continued to play even louder than before, until each color became more brilliant than he thought possible. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He stood high up on his hind legs and looked west, so that the last of the sun colored his face a creamy brilliant yellow white amid the gloom. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z As a young man Gene had been a good athlete and a brilliant student. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Apparently your father thought it would be a brilliant idea to have an article written about himself. He sent the reporter here to ‘interview’ you.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “He’s so brilliant he confuses the white man with words on paper.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Don’t forget,” he says, turning and walking a few strides backward, “you’re on with the horses right after Lottie.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Rishi ran his hands across the leaves of some bush with brilliant blue-violet flowers as they walked, releasing that green plant smell. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He was not only a brilliant writer, but was so committed to communism that he lived in a manner no different from an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves wanted to know the names of the most brilliant German physicists—the ones most likely to succeed in giving Hitler an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A single mother, well spoken, artistic, raising a daughter who was polite and fairly pretty and possibly brilliant. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I knew there was a second part to my brilliant defense, but I couldn’t quite call it back. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Professor Ghering is a brilliant man. Miss Anderson says the papers say he’s going to cure the undead plague! The two of you should attend his lecture. Homespun wisdom can only get you so far.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Her damp cheeks glistened like the pumpkin-colored wood of the table where Pax’s humans ate their food, brilliant against the white of her sleek throat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They rose to power after the death of Alexander the Great brilliant military leader who had established an empire that extended eastward from Greece to India. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “Welcome, young, brilliant poets,” Ms. Hawkins says, opening her door and ushering us inside. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Moody, listening to his mother describe their new tenants, was intrigued less by the artist than by the mention of the “brilliant” daughter just his age. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Simmon finished my sentence. “.. . brilliant. And not that young if you consider that he was admitted to the University when he was barely fourteen.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Orchestras are run by maestros, and maestros are powerful, brilliant, single-minded, highly entrenched men who run their organizations like their own private fiefdoms. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Though the light was brilliant, there was a delicious coolness in the air. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A brilliant name for a comic strip, even though the family in the comic wasn’t much like a circus. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Principal Marcelo comes onstage and says, “Thank you, sixth graders, for the brilliant performance. Well done! Now it’s time for the students to present cards they’ve made to their mothers.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Jackson— a former West Computer!—had faced down the brilliant John Becker and won. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Piper, that’s brilliant! If you’re right, this is great news. We just have to figure out which of us destroys Gaea.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And there were other moments when he almost saw absolute truth in brilliant flashes of clarity that almost came to him: presque vu. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z You can imagine yourself brilliant as your sister, slower moving, quiet and thoughtful as your older brother or filled up with the hiccupping joy and laughter of the baby in the family. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z When the oath controversy erupted, Teller, a brilliant theoretician, had just agreed to leave the University of Chicago for a faculty post at UCLA. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were four beds in the room, each covered with a brightly colored quilt: hundreds of patches of red and orange and yellow and brilliant green stitched together. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The gray, sullen hue that had hung over everything was replaced by a light that seemed brilliant by comparison to what had gone before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t actually think they would come back, because she’d done something brilliant she was rather proud of. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It connected in a brilliant flash, and Luke swung the gun one time, right at her temple. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He was a thick-set, red-faced man with straight black hair, and he was brilliant. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z And not just that, but I’ve now undertaken the task of gender-swapping this brilliant movie, which means people are going to be doubly interested to see what I do with it. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Lyra scrambled through, but Will stood still and looked into the eyes of his father’s ghost, brilliant in the shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Already the metal was setting, the brilliant red-yellow fading to scarlet, then to cherry. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes—I swept his hair from his brow, and kissed that too. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The water in the fishbowls rippled and waved as the fish gazed calmly; their brilliant colors against the abundant green land glinted like gold and jade. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Now that we were in the Sea of Monsters, the water glittered a more brilliant green, like Hydra acid. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Immediately the monster’s snarl turned into a brilliant smile. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She then tells me her brilliant idea and I have to admit it is good. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I had several today, and one at the rest stop after I thought the guy was going to kill me in the bathroom; when he was only handing me Libby’s brilliant escape note. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There's a slight pause in Max's speech but then it picks up with the upbeat tone of a brilliant idea. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Chen impressed Elizebeth as “charming and tireless...superbly educated and very brilliant.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was aware of her attention, of the straightness and speed of it like a lance from her brilliant eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Idiots and lunatics drove cars, why not the brilliant Marguerite Johnson? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We were joined by Gerrit Viljoen, the minister of constitutional development, a brilliant man with a doctorate in classics, whose role was to bring our discussions into a constitutional framework. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Any given individual, no matter how brilliant or rich or attractive he or she is, is going to have serious shortcomings. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was swimming in our pool with Samira and our cousin Leyla when they came up with the brilliant idea to smoke me out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The designs, however, were brilliant and encouraged the engineers of future times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “By the way, I saw you kids on the news. You’re both brilliant!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z One of Ivan’s brothers looked up, and his brilliant blue eyes widened. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “I have both been there and done that, Shay, before I even met you. And you’re the one who had this brilliant idea.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A battle raged between two titans: the professor Booker T. Washington and the brilliant, mercurial, and quarrelsome W. E. B. Du Bois. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As the onlookers scrutinized the position, Bobby’s ploy became obvious to all: Although not profound, it was cunning, perhaps ingenious, and even brilliant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The light was so brilliant that it was hard for Edward to see. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Helmuth awaits his turn for interrogation in a room painted a brilliant, dazzling white and brightly lit with large lights. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z To the cobblestone streets and the brilliant sunshine and the arched doorways and the flowers spilling over people’s roofs. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “Just wait here. I promise everything will be okay. Nothing’s going to hurt you. I’ll be back—” A brilliant golden flash illuminated the woods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When they leaped onto the mattress, a brilliant light flared behind them, accompanied by a crisp stutter like firecrackers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I know how brilliant I sound,” I shoot back dryly. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z A thin ray of sun struck the prisms of a candelabrum on the mantelpiece, throwing brilliant, trembling shards of light that were distorted by the slant of the dormer walls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You’re just upset because your big University brain couldn’t think of a way, and my plan is brilliant.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But then, unexpectedly, he finds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the world reappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful prospects. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And the most profound problems in physics—the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the big bang—are struggles to defeat zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sideways it skidded through the air, hit an outcropping and flipped; turning several somersaults and bursting into flame, the backhoe sailed down trailing a brilliant fantail of sparks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The full moon burst through the darkness, brighter and more brilliant than before. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In Despereaux’s dream, the light came to life, brilliant and glorious, in the shape of a knight swinging a sword. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The scarlet of the maple trees appeared in just a few brilliant spots; in a months time, the red would spread like a fever, dominating the landscape. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The only bright things in the whole landscape were the brilliant red-and-yellow and electric blue of the dragonflies, and their little riders, and Will and Lyra, and Pantalaimon, who was hovering kestrel-shaped close above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She caught the sheen of lapis lazuli tiles that must have been brilliant in their day. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a brilliant idea, because it allowed me to connect with and thank many of the people who had supported me for years. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Her eyes are open, their brilliant gold faded to the color of a dead sun. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He got the job, and he was brilliant at it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z What, I wonder, what would I be without a few brilliant spots of blood to ponder? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the brilliant bitterness between his father and his mother, a bitterness as smooth and fixed as steel. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They still emitted light, although the gentle twinkle had become a brilliant blaze. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Dawn came up from the couch of her reclining, leaving her lord Tithonos’ brilliant side with fresh light in her arms for gods and men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He is both brilliant and problematical, and it is fair to say that his towering legacy has had more impact on the worlds of literature, philosophy and politics than, strictly speaking, on musical development. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There are no brilliant ideas exploding behind those brown eyes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He shrugs and raises his palms like he just said the simplest yet most brilliant thing in the world. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Aunt Jessie loved hearing about George; she could tell he was brilliant and told Emma that if he could find work he loved when he grew up, he would find happiness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were a familiar shade of brilliant blue. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Coming here was your stupid idea. Getting out is my brilliant one.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Had the moon and stars been just as brilliant when he was a kid? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Sit down, Your Honor, and read the letter this brilliant young attorney will now hand over to you. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to look up at the sky, to gaze into the sun’s brilliant white-gold eye, but she had no control over her movements, and she had arrived at one of the windows. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Stassen leaped into his job with characteristic energy, declaring that he would assemble a supporting staff of “experienced men with brilliant analytical minds” to review American disarmament strategy from top to bottom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Up to thirty feet in length, the Hebridean Black is rough-scaled, with brilliant purple eyes and a line of shallow but razor-sharp ridges along its back. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My brilliant plan was to climb the rope and get on the pig's back. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z For William, and for the nation, Pearl Harbor was a painful lesson in human error—and the limits of even the most brilliant cryptanalytic machinery. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The walls were a brilliant white, the roofs of fine red tile. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Campbell had flashed her brilliant white smile. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z On her finger was a large diamond ring, cut into a brilliant square. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But there it was—brilliant and very far away. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z A brilliant scientist can come over the border from Mexico to live in America, but if he speaks in broken English, people say, “Eh, I don’t trust this guy.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The sky is orange and pink and brilliant. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The sky was lit up by gigantic sheets of brilliant lightning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The causative relation between pathogenic organisms and many diseases had been established through the brilliant work of Pasteur and Koch. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He thought how much the brilliant creatures would love it when the sky was open and they could skim about over bright water again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He raises a finger in the air and wags it like he’s about to make a brilliant observation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Now, before them, brilliant flocks of wading birds picked their way among tangled mangroves. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The jewels and feathers glow like fluorescent insects in the darkness, and her brilliant hair sparkles under the lanterns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He was a strange sort of military man, easygoing and casually brilliant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This time when Malcolm turned round, he saw the beam of a searchlight, brilliant against the gloomy sky, sweeping from left to right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I sat on the sandy shore and watched the brilliant white pelicans gliding effortlessly over the still waters in search of food. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The moonlight was brilliant enough to show every leaf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The men seemed to think this was a brilliant plan, and Matt, who had no idea what they were talking about, said the plankton factory sounded fine. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They had bloody noses, and their eyes were half-open, glassy, and brilliant red, with dilated pupils. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh really? And somewhere up in that brilliant head of yours, you think that’s a good idea?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I wake to brilliant sunlight shining through the open roof. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z What I want is for him to flash me a brilliant smile, to take determined strides toward me and kiss me in front of everyone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He could see him in the canvas of his eye, in the brilliant kingdom of his eye. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The most brilliant of the visions was the stars and moon spinning around each other in a glittering sky, an ode to the Gran’s real name, Knox—an ancient word that meant night. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Even better, the glass structure threw brilliant reflections into his eyes, and Will could see that for a moment he was almost blinded. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The day was warm and bright, the sky brilliant blue. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Feed the belly first, he announced at dinner one night, seized with his brilliant plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was brilliant, had been an avid reader her whole life, and she was a terrific literary critic, editor, and proofreader. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Blumer—or Molly, as she was known—was an attractive teenager and a brilliant student destined to lead her class at Vassar College and obtain a place at Harvard Medical School. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The abolitionists were brilliant at using advertising and marketing to turn public opinion against slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “This is a brilliant, misused woman. Speak of her with respect and reverence.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was the grandson of Poseidon, but good enough. How did your brilliant intellect arrive at this fact?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z When the sun finally rose in a brilliant pink sky, it shone on twenty-eight men who were more dead than alive. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z After work I decide to visit the state park where Pete has been threatening to take me, to appropriate a bit of this brilliant fall day for myself. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Most shine mainly in visible and infrared light; others are also brilliant sources of X-rays or radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a brilliant young woman: brave, passionate, adventurous.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I didn’t leave out anything, even the stuff that made me look the opposite of brilliant. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Lumps adorn her legs and arms, the hues so brilliant, they could be shiny new tattoos. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I say, “You may be the most brilliant man I have ever met.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t believe it, and you may not either, but Petey’s one of the best inventors on the planet. When it comes to brilliant technical minds in Logan County, it’s him or Evangeleen Ellison, right?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The Wonder Dome had been magically transformed into a brilliant blue sky filled with brightly colored hot-air balloons. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He laughed at himself, thinking his observation brilliant. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Daisy and I were scanning stations in search of a song by a particular brilliant and underappreciated boy band when we landed upon a news story. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The press was calling him brilliant, intense, unpredictable. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She could even spot the brilliant jewel that was the Court of the Seasons. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When the flash of green came, it lasted for only a magical flick of time—so brief and brilliant and beautiful, I was afraid I’d imagined it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “The picture that emerged,” concurred Hunt, “was that of a brilliant, unstable man.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then a brilliant arc of blue light shot from the rooftop of one of the tallest buildings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z But it used to be blue—a brilliant, magic kind of blue. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Hey, brilliant sister,” Ben said, “you going to write me when I’m in college?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s never going to be witness to brilliant ideas at eleven o’clock at night, or police escorts because someone set off the alarm. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He is so brilliant he makes the teachers nervous. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z As an adult, Champollion succeeded; fulfilling his childhood ambition, he provided a brilliant decipherment of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But just as they were congratulating each other on their brilliant scheme — “Potter! Weasley! What are you doing?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z "Well, all I came to tell you was that Matilda has a brilliant mind. But I expect you knew that already." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Entering that sombre study, I could see just outside the window the brilliant red flames lit in every tree, and beyond, some threatening thunderclouds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And thanks for comparing me to a dog. That was brilliant.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I knew that'd be an issue when I was planning this little road trip, so I came up with a brilliant plan that didn't work. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Lightning strikes all of them except for their captain, Jena, lighting up the space in a flash of brilliant gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They found themselves in a great garden, where paths and beds of flowers were set in immense lawns of soft grass, which glowed a brilliant green in the light of the lanterns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z "Doctor Deere is a brilliant young man," she explained for Flora Baumbach's ears. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In a way it was beautiful, like brilliant white and red flowers against the dark sky. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Paris was a good-looking guy with a brilliant smile that he rarely cared to share. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The flesh is a brilliant red covered with blisters. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At her brilliant eyes and tremulous smile her two daughters stared in unbelief. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z With a brilliant white flash he was gone, and I was alone with the horses. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes wandered over the blackened debris until they caught on something bright nearly lost among the ashes, something small and brilliant blue. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I’m gripped by feeling when I think of Milla and Edgar Street, and I hope for a brilliant life for Sophie. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Mary climbed the slope and looked back across the marshes, where the incoming tide laced a brilliant silver through the glistening dark of the mudflats and the reed beds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a brilliant blue, trimmed with golden fur. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Even the brilliant Archimedes occasionally scorned the infinite along with his contemporaries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The stars were brilliant and hung low in the sky. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, it was still and very hot, the sky a brilliant blue. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Until we could come up with some brilliant plan to save Thalia’s tree, we figured we might as well go along with the races. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "Judge Ford, could you introduce as evidence the letter that brilliant young attorney handed over to you?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, it was Nemur s turn to speak—to sum it all up as the head of the project—to take the spotlight as the author of a brilliant experiment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z This was at least three hours before the rain began and the clouds were still all of a brilliant white. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Dr. Cullen is a brilliant surgeon who could probably work in any hospital in the world, make ten times the salary he gets here,” he continued, getting louder. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Dudley would think it was a brilliant joke if I got lost up a chimney, don’t worry about that —” “Well... all right. . . you go after Arthur,” said Mrs. Weasley. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Jeb was grinning a brilliant grin; hands were patting him on the back. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun shone directly overhead in a brilliant blue sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty feet in length. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You gave me a brilliant son, and I have thanked you for him a million times. But you had to make him so brilliant?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Elizebeth was proud of her husband’s brilliant mind, but she also yearned to be brilliant in her own right. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She wanted to have me privately tested, to prove that I was brilliant and that the school was not meeting my needs. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The skin of the peach was very beautiful—a rich buttery yellow with patches of brilliant pink and red. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Miss Sarah and Miss Rose soared over the glade, their brilliant black wings spread wide. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Yet despite the Egyptians’ brilliant geometric work, zero was nowhere to be found within Egypt. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “He is celebrated today as one of Russia’s most brilliant writers. But during his life he was understood by no one, least of all himself. One might say he typified the phrase ‘eccentric genius.’ The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It had been decorated with hundreds and hundreds of candle-filled pumpkins, a cloud of fluttering live bats, and many flaming orange streamers, which were swimming lazily across the stormy ceiling like brilliant watersnakes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The helicopter light shot down a dozen brilliant pillars that built a cage all about the man. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was still lighting up the studio in a brilliant shine, and it made Pet’s feathers and fur glisten. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Longstreet shook his head to clear the sound, closed his eyes, saw Barksdale go streaming to his death against a flaming fence in the brilliant afternoon, hair blazing out behind him like white fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The great pale silver blade was rising slowly, catching the brilliant light. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Captain's log. Stardate 9326.5. Hog hunting is incredibly boring. I think I'll take a nap and trust in my brilliant Vulcan companion to let me know if any extremely dangerous feral hogs walk by.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It is worth quoting at length: As I entered through the so-called “gates of the Sun,” I was immediately confronted with the brilliant beauty of the city, and my eyes were filled with pleasure. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “And my sister here had the brilliant idea of putting in a bid to expand La Cocina!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Charlie picked it up and tore off the wrapper....and suddenly...from underneath the wrapper...there came a brilliant flash of gold. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Last year, she won a scholarship to Manhattan's Academy of Theater Arts, thanks to a brilliant audition and a raving recommendation from her Ridgeford High drama teacher. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Beyond the plaza lay the glittering channel, brilliant in the sunlight and choppy with white-capped waves, and beyond that the wooded shore, where Mr. Benedict’s telescopes were going to be hidden. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z You look so much like her and she is SO brilliant! then wait for my brilliance to light up the classroom. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z When we say that people like Langan are really brilliant, what we mean is that they have the kind of mind that can figure out puzzles like that last question. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Lyra moved slightly so that she could see the screen, where a brilliant white circle had begun to glow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Ogden Morrow was a brilliant programmer in his own right, but his true talent was his knack for business. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The last dormant Pandavas were so brilliant!” it said, shaking its head. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The sun, though not especially hot, was nonetheless so brilliant that it made any fairly distant image—a boy, a boat—seem almost as wavering and refractional as a stick in water. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z A tiny, brilliant sun waved in my eye. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Each room we passed was larger than the one before it, and all were filled with brilliant rugs covering marble floors. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “You did a very good job putting this display together,” she said in a voice that was as clear and brilliant as crystal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll go through the box. Then you need to hear my brilliant idea.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The stars were brilliant—thousands of them, like you only see way out in the country. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The child was lying between her feet, wrapped up so thickly that all Malcolm could make out was the top of her head and the brilliant butterfly Pantalaimon perching on her hair. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds—to stand out in brilliant relief. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I think he is very beautiful, with his brown skin and brilliant white teeth and his dark appalled eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When she brandished the stick, however, a spinning haze of brilliant dots flooded up before her eyes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z It may be more comforting to believe what the newspapers say, that the drop in crime was due to brilliant policing and clever gun control and a surging economy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She had dark playful eyes and a brilliant smile. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One of the things I love most is how, even though she’s brilliant, she isn’t all snooty about it. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “Used to book him whenever I could get my hands on him, years ago now. Absolutely brilliant, completely mesmerized every audience. Never seen anyone to match him, never.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After much thought, I came up with a brilliant plan. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the majority of the audience, Monroe believed the poem to be rather a brilliant work, so much so that she had hired a printer to produce five thousand copies for sale to the public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The navigator might be brilliant, but I don’t dare ask him about the forecastle, and how to get in, because he’s also curious. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A brilliant moon hung high in the sky, a moon that could light my dog’s way home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the most brilliant engineers on the laboratory’s staff took an active interest in standing up to the prejudice he saw around town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I knew she wasn’t waiting for Dumb or Dumber to come up with anything brilliant, she was just lining up her thoughts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I know that she forms conclusions of her own, and from all that has been I can guess how brilliant and how true they must be; but she will not, or cannot, give them utterance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Neva: had Lyra seen it so brilliant and dramatic; with every twitch and shiver, new miracles of light danced across the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her picture is brilliant: Her mouth seems right on the edge of laughing, and this is exactly how she looked at Tiny's house, unlike all her Facebook pictures. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Mina is short and compact to Judith’s willowy height, but they have the same teeth and the same brilliant eyes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And her mom...her mom was beautiful and brilliant and elegant. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I thought that was the most brilliant idea. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He could fix anything that had moving parts—in fact, Father often said Bucky'd make a brilliant engineer if he’d settle down long enough to finish school. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z It was a brilliant dark vermilion, like a ripe orange, and it was plastered back with immense quantities of brilliantine in the same fashion as the Headmaster’s. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time one of them would glance at Will or Lyra, or at the brilliant dragonfly and its rider, as if they were curious. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At five, I am oblivious to the events of war, yet I know Pa to be brilliant, and therefore he must be right. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The clatter jagged on my nerves, and the lights were far too brilliant, far too yellow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The sun flashed behind the molle leaves, turning them a brilliant green. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Lightning crackled, a brilliant, jagged streak, and thunder rattled the little building. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And here they had put on a show, and Cameron Mackintosh, the most powerful man on Broadway, was celebrating with them, shaking their hands, telling everyone that they had been “brilliant, just brilliant!” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Like all of his schemes it would be cunningly simple and wickedly brilliant. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They whisper that he is a soldier, that he is brilliant, and that he is the father of the country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Both men had cropped hair, but the woman’s brilliant orange hair was filled with leaves and debris from the woods. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “They are brilliant with atmosphere,” Chandresh remarks to Celia as he joins their conversation, switching her empty glass of champagne with a freshly poured replacement. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Instantly the table was brilliant with light, and the cone of the shade threw its brightness straight downward, leaving the corners of the bunk house still in dusk. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, nice seeing you again, whoever you are. The photos of you are brilliant. I stopped by the church a few times looking for you. Thought you might want to see them.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z That feeling is so new, like a brilliant jewel I can’t stop staring at. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Putting me in the perfect position to, hopefully, make everybody forget how brilliant she is on the cello and, maybe, just maybe, make this my night to shine! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The sky was so black and the stars so many and brilliant. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approach he sees that after a certain expanse the yard falls away, and then he sees the lake, a blue a thousand times deeper, more brilliant, than the sky and girded by pines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the early third century Herophilus of Chalcedon, the brilliant Alexandrian anatomist, invented a device for timing the pulse. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z My plan suddenly didn’t feel so brilliant anymore. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z This was my brilliant plan to survive incarceration. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His were reddish-gold, dull in the shade under the bridge but brilliant in sunlight. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Radar, ever the brilliant tactician, has banked an extra thirty minutes without telling us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He must have one of those brilliant fridges that do everything. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The brilliant threads crisscrossed in an intricate pattern of loops and knots that Kira had never seen before, that she could not have created, that she had never known or heard described. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d spent time in jail and been accused of murder, yet he was such a brilliant actor that every time he appeared on stage, the audiences would go wild. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The oak tree below burst into sudden, brilliant flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Finally the tunnel expanded and its core became so brilliant that I felt we were in the center of a gigantic million-watt light bulb. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After the final dial twist, he fired a brilliant red flare into the sky. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Where’s your secret? Play fair, Teddy, or I’ll never believe you again,” she said, trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up at a word of encouragement. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who knew him, like Lanita Akins, thought he was a brilliant politician who had provided blacks in Odessa with their first real public voice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If Singer made brilliant attacks on his own men so that in the end the black king was killed, Antonapoulos was always very proud and pleased. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The mango flesh was a brilliant orange color, and when Oliver bit into it, the sticky juice would drip down the mango and onto his clothes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A dragonfly, a brilliant blue jewel, darted up and paused over the lily pads, then swung up and away. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Seated beside Sherman at a small wooden table inside the farmhouse, he signed articles of surrender and then walked out of the dark room and into the brilliant sunlight of the North Carolina spring. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But she was brilliant, learned easily, and when she liked something, she put her all into it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her smile was a brilliant specimen and she wore the moon on her wrist. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I give her a brilliant smile that I hope looks convincing, and then shake my head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, brilliant,” Abbey said, and sank into a chair. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z My sister was brilliant and charming and a beauty, just like my mother had been. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The boys follow his pointing finger across the jutted rooftops where fireworks explode—blue red yellow white—a thousand points of brilliant light. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Glitter Man had come up with what he’d thought was a brilliant plan. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Oh ... my brilliant plumage. Very well. I suppose you can’t die in glory if you are blinded and burned.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Violent solar storms produce brilliant flares that disrupt radio communications on Earth; and immense arching plumes of hot gas, guided by the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar prominences, which dwarf the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As he did so there came a shrill, vibrant cry and he caught sight, between the plants, of a brilliant azure bird flashing past over the open water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As he grappled with the table, the brilliant red bird bobbled slightly and raised her wings for balance, chirping irritably. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if that makes me brilliant too. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He believed that her destiny was marriage and a brilliant life in society, where the ability to converse with the dead, if kept on a frivolous level, could be an asset. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All I could do was stare in disbelief at the brilliant green light that was about to change my life—a dazzling holographic image that had appeared above Tyson’s head. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Theo loves his brother’s brilliant mind, his gregariousness, even his fiery temperament. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “But you can make a brilliant Patronus!” protested Ron, when Harry arrived back at the tent empty-handed, out of breath, and mouthing the single word, dementors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I always knew she was creative and brilliant, but I never realized she could do something as amazing as this. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Only once before in our history was there the promise of a brilliant scientific civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten wedge-shaped, high-definition video screens—as brilliant as those in Times Square—lined the underbelly of the dome like so many orange slices. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Chacko lifted the fried eggs onto the toast, broke the brilliant, wobbling yokes and spread them over the strawberry jam with the back of his teaspoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant white stakes that marked the perimeters of buildings imparted to the land the look of a Civil War burial ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She was looking at him steadily; he, however, found it difficult to look back at her; it was like gazing into a brilliant light. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “And he has a brilliant editor, Ade Coker, although I wonder how much longer before they lock him up for good. Even Eugene’s money will not buy everything.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you worry yourself. We will edit this to make you sound like the absolutely brilliant young man you are.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Before they disappeared behind the wall, one turned and shook its fist at them, a brilliant green flashing from its hairy arm. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “And when a brilliant scholar like me doesn’t understand it you know it’s got to be complex.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I really need to get across this path—the kind of need-to that should push me to have some brilliant idea. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We held hands and walked beneath the brilliant green shade of cottonwood trees, back toward the old power plant. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was, but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z When we’re safely inside, door closed, no parents around, I tell him, “That was kinda brilliant.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He was so astonished that Lyra stopped crying at once to see what was happening, and that made Malcolm laugh, and that made Lyra laugh too, her eyes brilliant with tears. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In fact, everyone is brilliant, and none more so than Rosie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I promise, I read each and every story, and loved them all. But the three winners we honor tonight are nothing short of brilliant. Please join me in celebrating our third-place winner, Gordon Jeffries!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Her hair was done up in fanciful curls, and she wore a brilliant tiara. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Above, the sky was the brilliant blue court artists could only imagine, and the sun was so warm he was glad to have the shade. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z His hat was tipped back on his head, and he wore a brilliant smile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What a brilliant place that mansion of the great prince seemed to them! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m...flattered, sir. I’m sure you were a brilliant student.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She's tall and strong, with brilliant posture, like that statue in New York Harbor. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Give your idea calmly, she says, and find somebody else to say it’s brilliant. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He looked over his shoulder and his face blossomed into a crazy brilliant smile. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Scorned when it was first erected in the late 1950s, it is a brilliant, if idiosyncratic, creation by one of the most original architectural minds of the century. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In retrospect, Fenn told me, “One of George Washington’s most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of ’78.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With an entire American city below from which to draw needed supplies, a brilliant man might do anything. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z After the many brilliant speeches that had been made on this very spot Ralph s remarks seemed lame, even to the littluns. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “I have a brilliant idea,” he says, his face whirring with emotion. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Some of the brilliant Ionian thinkers were the sons of sailors and farmers and weavers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This may seem a backward way of going about measuring barrels, but it was a brilliant idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s also U for University School! What a brilliant place to hide something—around hundreds of kids!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z When I read this, I imagined my mother as a young woman, brilliant and energetic, but also anxious and complying. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Above them, the stars were brilliant, shining brighter than Flora had ever seen them shine. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z "A most brilliant, operation," Brother Jack went on, smiling now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course, he was probably the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z But two Martians, incredibly brilliant, with the ability to keep me under this dreaming hypnosis all of the time. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty years of rust aside, Bobby played as masterfully as he had in 1972: aggressive, relentless, brilliant, attacking on one side of the board and then the other. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Amelia: I have a brilliant idea to share with you. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But, as it was autumn weather, the rain suddenly disappeared, and cloudless, brilliant skies once more stretched over them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She would have walked beneath yellow-ringed pines rising to a brilliant eastern sky, and her senses would have succumbed to the joy of the morning. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But this space was enormous, all of it brilliant white. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Breedlove’s skin glowed like taffeta in the reflection of white porcelain, white woodwork, polished cabinets, and brilliant copperware. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z "Give her six months' severance and put her on the next flight back home. I'll send over someone less...distracting. Svetlana is older, a grandmother type, and utterly brilliant. Her goulash is to die for." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z As I did, there was a brilliant flash of light, and then I saw that my avatar was no longer holding a joystick. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When she got back, she couldn’t stop talking about how brilliant and wonderful the guy was. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My mom said it was brilliant so my sister and cousins tried to prove I was faking. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The moon was always a brilliant white, and once in a while the night wind brought the hooting of owls and the rise and fall of voices from the refugee camp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When I looked back at the house, lights were on but no one was outside yet, a testament to the brilliant simplicity of the well-Vaselined doorknob. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly the idea seemed brilliant and wondrously perceptive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Warm days turn chilly, and the trees around the teahouse start to blaze in brilliant shades of gold and orange and red. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “We haven’t won since Charlie left, but this year’s team is going to be brilliant. You must be good, Harry, Wood was almost skipping when he told us.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He spoke lightly, but Johnson was brilliant at political maneuvers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Gibbs is perhaps the most brilliant person that most people have never heard of. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But I had a feeling that brain fever might’ve just been another way of saying uncooperative, or outspoken, or brilliant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Abby filled me in after Mr. Griggs called this afternoon and told me what you kids were planning, and I think it’s brilliant. I’d like to help. I’m the mayor, after all.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “The director did a brilliant job of crafting the arc of the play,” she wrote. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He opened one eye, saw the brilliant colors of the quilt and closed his eye quickly. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall goddess among women, she lifted out one robe of state so royal, adorned and brilliant with embroidery, deep in the chest it shimmered like a star. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a patient man, stubborn and slow, not brilliant, but a dependable soldier. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From the ceiling, huge lamps hung down and bathed the room in a brilliant blue-white light. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “Courtney at some point in her life is going to have to realize what a beautiful, brilliant, and perceptive young woman she is,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Almost simultaneously, Shea launched into his brilliant “It wasn’t us” story while I loudly attempted to overrule him by apologizing profusely. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And if I can’t afford college, why would someone as brilliant as Arthur want to be with me, someone who’s struggling with high school? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In Baltimore’s Preakness Stakes, Stout stuck to his stirrups but finished second to Derby winner Bold Venture, foiled by the brilliant reinsmanship of Seabiscuit’s onetime jockey, George Woolf. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was brilliant, the water one sheet of fast-flowing glass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Flocks of brilliant butterflies moved through like schools of fish, and the upper levels of the amphitheater were espaliered with jeweled fruit trees. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I know there’s a cluster of trees with leaves that turn brilliant shades of yellow in the fall. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The sky peeked through the leaves in brilliant blue, and she could smell the rich scent of the earth beneath her: crushed leaves from last fall, acorns slowly decaying into soil. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And this woman was the first spirit that was dressed up, wearing a fancy hat filled with feathers and sparkles and a dress that looked similar to Clara’s, a brilliant shade of peacock blue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z As he scribbled an inscription onto the title page, he said, “All I ask in exchange is that you read this brilliant and haunting novelization of my favorite video game.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Her eyes were more brilliant and wide open. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As Lillian kissed Ben, she looked into his eyes and said, “Your eyes come from my side of the family, Ben. They are a brilliant blue.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the dirty lenses, the eyes were a piercing, brilliant blue. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As a result, the games have not been especially brilliant for a tournament of this class. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere’s Ride — with an “uncanny genius for being at the center of events.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his screams and howls seemed to have been smothered in that brilliant blankness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “It’s brilliant, Uncle Heath. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live in a river-view tower? I know I’m looking forward to my free penthouse apartment. Care for a mint?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Yet we’re brainwashed to believe that the more brilliant the writer, the tougher the going. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “So your suggestion is that we throw some poor kid to the wolves so the rest of us can escape? This is your brilliant suggestion?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There were no trees and the air was brilliant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing Kyle could see inside was a trickling fountain in a grand foyer of brilliant white marble. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z For him the fair had been a brilliant light that for a time dispelled the shadows that had accumulated around his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Du Bois included in his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, a brilliant but haunting short story. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The street lights go out, and the weeds are a brilliant green. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A brilliant dawn broke through the morning dew, caressed every shadow, and lifted the fog to reveal a floor of white clouds dotting an azure sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We paused a moment to marvel at how the rising rim of gold sun silently announced itself by illuminating the sky with brilliant, broad streaks of pink, purple, and orange. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Even the concession tickets provided a splash of color—brilliant blue for the Turkish Theater, pink for the Lapland Village, and mauve for the Venetian gondolas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The first book was even dedicated to “My brilliant girls, without whom Harriet would never have been born.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The whole of Miss Honey's pale and pleasant face blushed a brilliant scarlet. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Wights were supposed to be brilliant, but these guys seemed like drones to me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They looked like garfish or brilliant white light. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z There was foreboding in these strange brilliant days when the land was failing them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was a scholar, the friend of Raleigh and of Nashe, the most brilliant and educated of the Cambridge wits. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “The teachers say they are brilliant. They can speak Chinese and English. They’ll be able to talk to you.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl understood, and a brilliant smile spread over her delicate features. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Lyra looked into Will’s brilliant, strong eyes and smiled. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This story is the safety net above which he swoops and dives like a brilliant clown in a bankrupt circus. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The maple tree behind her is a brilliant orange. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Consequential as is the two-game lead the Soviet champion now enjoys, the board is still set for a duel that could rank among the most brilliant in this ancient game’s annals. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s falling down out of the sky, straight toward my head, brilliant and glassy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If what you mean is, Mom reorganized my closet brilliantly, don’t water it down by saying, Moms reorganization of my closet was brilliant. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s quite brilliant,” I said, even though inside I was bursting with a shimmering nervousness. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s a dragonfly with brilliant greenish-blue wings and tiny goggles over its eyes. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z But with it, he wears a scarf in a brilliant scarlet, to distinguish himself from it as well, as a reminder that he is at heart a spectator, an observer. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They were glowing a brilliant blue, with red eyes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He was a soft-spoken, politically sensitive, brilliant Zulu student, whose love for the English language probably equalled my own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The winning numbers hover in the middle of the screen, suspended against a brilliant blue background. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The brilliant blue of the morning sky has faded, as if left out too long in the sun. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Weird is just a label people put on people who are brilliant.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z On each half of the crimson doors hung a painting of a round-faced, laughing child dressed in brilliant red. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The central character, known only as the Man in the Chair, is a finicky, brilliant middle-aged man, a lover of the theater and of language. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They were on a sandy beach under a brilliant moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “OK, OK," he squawked, “what about your brilliant idea, Thief Lord? Heavens, that man is touchier than a dog with a bone." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a morning of brilliant sunshine and we’d all just come down to the courtyard after a lesson in the main house, when I remembered something I’d left in the classroom. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A thin tongue of brilliant flame issued from the wand and wound its way around their hands like a red-hot wire. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It looked odd—a flat yellow cloth of some kind, perfectly clean and smooth with brilliant light shining on it from somewhere inside the girl’s bedroom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I think that Oscar is the most brilliant bloke I’ve ever met, not to mention, way hot, and ladies and gentlemen, what a lean he has.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, come on,” she keeps saying, “it was brilliant.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To understand why, we must travel north to Scotland and begin with a brilliant and genial man, of whom few have ever heard, who had just invented a new science called geology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the military, brilliant generals are said to possess "coup d’oeil”—which, translated from the French, means "power of the glance”: the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Approaching in their great canoes, the Indian soldiers wore brilliant feather cloaks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The roadway was bordered with daisies and buttercups, pale and thin, of course, compared to the brilliant masses of color in Barbados, but pretty all the same. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I can send them into others’ work, even enliven some inanimate objects, and once that’s done, the results are brilliant. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Some are already in use and have achieved brilliant success. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Matt thought it was a brilliant answer, considering the question had been thrown at him out of the blue. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Caroline has a brilliant idea, she always comes to me for posters to advertise it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The subject had been discussed by brilliant philosophers and mathematicians for 2,000 years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We passed a manse where two white women, dressed in brilliant sacques, walked arm-in-arm among the blooms, commenting upon the excellence of the sweet peas. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His brilliant eyes were looking into the distance as if he were already thinking about the great revolutionary task that lay ahead of him. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Something the size of an asteroid is a brilliant, blinking source of X-rays, visible over interstellar distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A brilliant blue pendant hung from his neck, the same color as her mother’s. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “You want something specially designed for you! That’s just plain brilliant, Melody!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Near the center of the Milky Way, millions of brilliant stars would be visible to the naked eye, compared to our paltry few thousand. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The covering was the same brilliant orange as the tree in the corner, like what Anya had wanted to do with her sukkah. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “I’m not surprised she got all the questions right— the child is brilliant!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Auma had ebony skin and brilliant white teeth and spoke with a strong British accent. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The moon was brilliant, the path a track of scumbled footprints in the snow, the air cutting and cold. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Harry, on the other hand, was small and skinny, with brilliant green eyes and jet-black hair that was always untidy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z This sweet, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes brilliant, naive child of mine...This child who is now an adult and about to launch, like a rocket blazing in beauty through the night sky to worlds unknown. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Momentarily brilliant as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, they are heated and destroyed by friction at a height of about 100 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad had jumbled my internal clock, thanks to our late-night marathon of Doctor Who—my favorite episodes with the brilliant and brave Martha Jones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Teachers typically delight in minds as brilliant as his. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And she had an idea that was pretty brilliant. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A plump little girl, dressed in brilliant red, was running toward the tiger! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “A lot of brilliant thinkers have come out of Riverview,” the professor said as he gestured for Grace and Jake to sit down. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The plane flew into a brilliant Hawaiian morning. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z New York was a great place, and being called brilliant had cooled her down. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the brilliant white bonnets were as thick as grass, driving every other color from the landscape. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She needed to come up with a brilliant rescue plan. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was the same way I felt when he smiled, his face breaking open like a coconut with the brilliant white meat inside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "And I get texts from him like every forty-two seconds and he's a brilliant texter, which is nice because it's just a little pleasant leg vibration, just a reminder-in-the-thigh that he's—see, there's one." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “What I’m thinking right now is that everyone in life needs to have had at least one brilliant, inspiring teacher.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The dealer looked at me, then at Mom, who returned his mildly suspicious glance with a look sharp enough to cut diamonds followed by a smile more brilliant that any gem. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was simply that the brilliant moonlight on the bone-colored rocks would shine like a lantern once he opened the window in Mrs. Coulter’s cave. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That was the day I learned that my brother, my beautiful, brilliant older brother, couldn’t make sense of words and letters the way that I could. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z An oblong of blackness relieved with brilliant spangles hung before them and there was the hollow sound of surf on the reef. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z And if we hadn’t had that box...Mal, that was brilliant. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His journalism was temporary, something he would do until he wrote that brilliant novel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I like to think that the colors and sounds and words have nothing to do with him, that they’re all me and my own brilliant, complicated, buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, godlike brain. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Instead of two “girls” on the floor at once, there can be as many as six of us running around in our brilliant pink-and-orange Hawaiian shirts. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “My rouge won’t come off.” and Amy rubbed her brilliant cheek, and showed him her white glove with a sober simplicity that made him laugh outright. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was doing antics among the million specks of dust hanging between us and casting a brilliant, unstable pool of light on the floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We must remember, though, that Mr. Gonzalez is under orders from that mysterious tycooness, the reputedly brilliant and learned Mrs. Levy, to treat Miss Trixie well and to make her feel active and wanted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He realized that wasting away on this Mexican backstretch was a brilliant horseman. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your father w as a brilliant man. Not another word of disrespect from you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in what was either a brilliant stroke of luck or a bit of disastrously poor timing, depending on whether you were rooting for the squirrel or the children, the doors swung open. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The flame that issues from its nostrils is a brilliant blue and can reduce timber and bone to ash in a matter of seconds. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But the brilliant form fell apart immediately, leaving him back among the dregs of racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw Mr. Rochester smile:—his stern features softened; his eye grew both brilliant and gentle, its ray both searching and sweet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She admires the sea, a calm, brilliant turquoise to her left, and the familiar pattern of royal palms dotting the landscape. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother maintained the sort of parental mind-set that I now recognize as brilliant and nearly impossible to emulate—a kind of unflappable Zen neutrality. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He had been a brilliant mathematics student, and very popular. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z To the left of the clock stood the flag of the United States, with all forty-eight stars brilliant against a navy field. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Did you see that, Jacob? Did you see how brilliant they were?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z When the city was built, the brilliant early engineers had adapted these to a system of natural plumbing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Lightning bursts in the sky, giving us a flash of the eerily brilliant gardens, then the darkness sucks it all back in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “It was brilliant! And something in the water grabbed me and pushed me back in the boat!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was flat on the floor, feeding the live screen a brilliant shot of the rat heading over to the jury, the jury members scrambling, taking off, climbing onto their seats. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Matt thought this was a brilliant argument, and he couldn’t see why the Keeper was so upset. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A wavering, brilliant red color flittered in front of her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And a bike too, which made the brilliant policemen of stupid Marysville come to the conclusion that it must have been a kid who broke in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The man kept saying the word “brilliant” after Papa spoke. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Our plan is pretty brilliant, if I do say so. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Not because he was so brilliant, but the government had just announced plans to send a satellite spinning around the earth, and most of his department seemed to be planning on being launched with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all of these men were brilliant, and some distinctly were not. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “A toast,” Lefty said, “to our youngest brother, Moon Shadow, the son of the brilliant Windrider. May Moon Shadow work hard. May he become rich soon. May he return home even sooner.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My siblings tried to tell me that it was okay, that I was still brilliant. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Even the air shimmered with excitement, and shutters closed for many years were thrown open to let the brilliant sunlight shine where it hadn’t shone in so long. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “She’d never seen such a precious, beautiful, amazing, brilliant, intelligent child,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You’re brilliant,” his mother said, and she kissed him on the forehead. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He was a brilliant man who was slow in speech and slow to move and silent-faced as stone. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No one was abroad at this nearly midnight hour, and nothing was open except a string of desolately brilliant service stations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he had another brilliant idea: He suggested that he and I should get more food than anyone else, since we were the youngest and had been eating for the least amount of time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I—I choose—” Before she could point to a door, a brilliant light flooded the room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z So brilliant that my head hurts just being in his presence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Now which of these two students do you think is better suited to do the kind of brilliant, imaginative work that wins Nobel Prizes? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When he looks at me, his eyes are so pure and brilliant I think they’re made of glass. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Except that the words weren’t what he heard; a strange hissing had escaped him, and at once the tap glowed with a brilliant white light and began to spin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Exactly. So I would advise my golden boy brother to beware when he deals with his brilliant, but modest, sister.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was brilliant red, the color of a lucky lantern, with emerald-green whiskers, horns, and a dull stone-colored ball like the moon on his head. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “There it is!” a little boy shouted, as a brilliant light, first green then red, exploded on the horizon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She lit a fresh cigarette almost at once, and said, as pointedly as she was able, “Anyway, your sister says he’s a brilliant boy. Lane.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Now frowning, now smiling a secret smile, Turtle acted the part of every brilliant lawyer she had seen on television who was about to win an impossible case. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It cast ink-black shadows across the brilliant snow. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Stars come out to shine, so many they seem jammed together, brilliant points of light all across the sky. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was a preposterous idea, illogical, and yet...she remembered the building pressure in her chest, followed by that brilliant sense of release. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The honour of a soldier and eyes, even brighter than your brilliant orbs, the bright eyes of danger, call me forth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not sense people's energies the way that a sage could, but this spirit or consciousness was so focused, so brilliant, that anyone would know it was there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Of course, you would not understand or like a brilliant and dedicated guy like Ongah. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, Liberty, unfold your brilliant bow, Sinita was to step forward, show her brilliant bow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the brilliant glare of the moon the only colors were stark black and dead white, and every edge was jagged and every surface bare. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was shining, sunlight so brilliant that she thought she could feel it warm on her eyelids. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The stones were small but the color was brilliant, like reef water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There was no Aurora, but the stars were brilliant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll ask Scipio what he's going to do now. If he comes back. Maybe he'll have another one of his brilliant ideas.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The skin of his face turned yellowish, with brilliant starlike red speckles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This brilliant medical achievement came about by an attack that was twofold — that stressed prevention as well as cure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was an intense and brilliant young man who possessed a great positional sense. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “My mom used to think he was brilliant,” he answered. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The BFG, with Sophie sitting on his hand, hurried into the cave and put on those brilliant blinding lights that seemed to come from nowhere. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Carrying 130 pounds, Seabiscuit endured a rough trip and lost by a nose to the brilliant race mare Esposa, who carried fifteen fewer pounds and set a track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Andeg preened his feathers, very glad to be so warm, bobbed his sleek head, and blinked his brilliant eyes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z For standing among the brilliant flowers and fluttering butterflies was a beautiful woman dressed in blue. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Green was everywhere, in different shades, like a huge, brilliant, gorgeous version of the overlapping carpets back in the rooms of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z After they finished eating they sat outside the tent, under a moon so brilliant that it made the stars pale. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was hiding behind these brilliant colors waiting for Henny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re taught that Western civilization originated in the Near East, was brought to brilliant heights in Europe by the Greeks and Romans, and produced three of the world’s great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside the dirty window there was the brilliant midsummer countryside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Washington was an indisputable American patriarch, but more an actor than a leader, brilliant at striking poses “in a strain of Shakespearean...excellence at dramatic exhibitions.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The principal, Mother Lucy, wrote, “A brilliant, obedient student and a daughter to be proud of.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him see the palm trees swaying under a brilliant blue sky. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The lovely Soledad proved herself to be the most brilliant student in the whole school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone who had to just stop in his tracks and do a slow pivot like Smokey Robinson with his brilliant smile that slid over his mouth and drifted right up to his laughing eyes. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Where a tree branch arched across the trail, black, and covered with hair of brilliant moss, Annie stopped and turned around to wait for me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The sun was newly risen, and the rocks and the lichens and mosses on them shone crisp and brilliant in the morning light, but nowhere could he see a figure. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “No blood, no foul,” he said, flashing his brilliant teeth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The children laughed again, and the brilliant red of their clothes and the golden yellow flowers of the trees seemed to make Minli’s eyes dazzle with color. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Hercules fixed those brilliant blue eyes on her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sunshine, in fact, bathed the entire afghan, and the play of warm, brilliant light in the pale-blue wool was in itself well worth beholding. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The red pottery tub filled with the brilliant zinnias. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I can’t tell him yet his poison was the deadliest ever created, but once I get us out of this, I will tell him how truly brilliant he is. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well, you gave an absolutely brilliant interpretation. Excellent! Thank you!” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She could see him quite clearly, even at that distance; the moonlight was brilliant, and her eyes were adjusted to it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Then a great grin spread over her face and she shouted, "It's brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “She gets that from these hair videos she watches on YouTube. A lot of the girls are British. Now she runs around saying everything is either ‘brilliant’ or ‘mental.’ Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z We had a long night full of worries and tears, but the sun always rises—and I came up with a brilliant new plan. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z If in that dark heaven she traced a ram when already half its brilliant horn might be gone? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That Beethoven changed the way society viewed composers should not cloud our judgement of his brilliant predecessor who sought and gave one thing: pleasure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “So Terry tells me you were assigned some kind of community service project. And she came up with the brilliant idea for you to help me clean my attic,” Vivian says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “You had a brilliant idea, bidding against each other in the auction. You were very close to winning.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The bright orange of pumpkins being trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary—seen in an instant, the flash of brilliant color, but gone again, returning to their flat and hueless shade. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z They woke the next day to brilliant sunshine and a light, refreshing breeze. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “They were both brilliant and modest about it all.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In my first letter I had hoped to impress you with my brilliant prose, but that will have to wait for my second. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “You must be brilliant. I’ve never flown. Is it easy? Is that your own broom? Is that the best one there is?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She quickly built a reputation for being brilliant, a natural scholar who could glance at a book and know it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The designs on my palms would take hours to dry, but tomorrow the deep brown Seema painted on would transform into a brilliant orange. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She looked like the brilliant Indian flower Dimple knew she herself would never be. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Her brilliant eyes were fixed unblinkingly on his. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter that Charlie didn’t deserve his beautiful, brilliant fiancée. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But this was not quite the brilliant solution it might have seemed, since F# and Q> were still - to stringed instruments, singers and some brass players - separate notes, albeit just a short distance apart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He is brilliant cover for his own family’s Resistance entanglement and there are orders out to keep him alive. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It's a bright and brilliant day, and here we are, two kids who barely know each other and have nothing in common, hiding in an alley. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z April was watching him set up the pins and suddenly got a brilliant idea. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z All this Lyra saw by starlight alone; but then, as Lord Asriel connected his wires, the Aurora blazed all of a sudden into brilliant life. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Turned, the babies at once fell silent, then began to crawl towards those clusters of sleek colours, those shapes so gay and brilliant on the white pages. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dimness the beard and his brilliant eyes were most of what she could see of him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes against the glaring light, and watched, a little dizzily, as brilliant patterns of red and orange danced inside her eyelids. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Augustus assured me it was because my email was better and required a more thoughtful response, that Van Houten was busy writing answers to my questions, and that brilliant prose took time. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Gondola after gondola swept up to the marble steps, and left its lovely load to swell the brilliant throng that filled the stately halls of Count Adelon. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve got rope burn on my fingers, I can barely hold my eyes open, and a camera crew’s waiting for me to do something brilliant. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Once brilliant and vibrant, Bessy was spending more and more time in a fog. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “We owe you, Jake. Both of the Shaffer brothers are now behind bars for that bank robbery in California thanks to your brilliant work.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z This was the idea of one of his most brilliant contemporaries, Paul Simon, with his knowingly entitled 1973 hit ‘American Tune’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On their right a wide and graceful parkland led up to a great house with a classical portico as brilliant as icing sugar under the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Instead, the god bared his brilliant white teeth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then there was another and another, and more lights swept across the ever-moving trees outside, in a brilliant green scatter of radiance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She leaped up and stuck her hand into one of the pockets of the smock and pulled out the brilliant photograph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason for this occurred to me as the procession moved slowly across the brilliant foyer to the doors; Phineas had thought of me as an extension of himself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Hadn’t he played “The Game of the Century,” one of the most brilliant chess encounters ever? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Every now and then I’d get my hopes up, thinking maybe I’d be recognized for my brilliant tactical or motivational skills and would be chosen first for a change. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In utter silence the brilliant silver blade shot down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The brilliant light fell into the water, and under the water— —was a flat stone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A brilliant smile, as warm as the sun, radiates from her face and shines so bright I have to close my eyes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He flashed a brilliant smile, looking at me appreciatively in a way I was learning to recognize. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He stood on his hind legs and held his handkerchief over his heart and stared up, up, up into the brilliant light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Bearing clubs, spears, bows, lances, slings, and copper axes, brilliant in cloaks of feathers and silver breastplates, their faces painted in terrifying designs, the Inka army plunged into the forests of the northern coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the faraway ages when the tales of Greek mythology were taking shape men found the brilliant blossoms of the Greek spring a wonder and a delight. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This handsome and brilliant young woman, like her students, despises the idea that in America any man has to “earn” his rights to first-class citizenship. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Rishi breathed deeply, the loneliness and the doubt and the brilliant pain of the last month finally dissipating. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Advertising too is a brilliant tool for creating conventional wisdom. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z His brilliant blue eyes were as dark as the sea, and carried its same loneliness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She had only to keep going, and eventually the huts, fields, and brilliant lights of Zimbabwe would appear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Down at Pier 57, the Great Wheel pinwheels and flashes through brilliant color patterns: electric violets, neon greens, siren reds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Elizabeth says, “So have you thought about my brilliant idea?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Your Honor, and read the letter this brilliant young attorney will now hand over to you. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the stairwell, the sky was a square of brilliant blue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The sky was brilliant blue, as if the stormy weather had never happened. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Halfway around the world, in the American Southwest, there was then a high culture, rich in astronomical tradition, that also witnessed this brilliant new star.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From behind a glass pane, I see a brilliant green snake coiled around a tree branch. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z "It's still a bit hazy, but it's completely brilliant..." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Before him, then, the slope stretched upward, and above it the brilliant sky, and beyond it, cloudy, and far away, he saw the skyline of New York. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It don’t signify to you with your brilliant lookout, but as to myself, my guiding-star always is, ‘Get hold of portable property’.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difH- cult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z His workouts for the Massachusetts Handicap were brilliant. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was brilliant and charming, but once fixed on a thing, he was as unyielding as a slab of Joliet limestone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His eyes were full of a brilliant, burning hurt. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Thanks to Delphi’s brilliant preparation work, we are going to take this potion and be transformed, and thus disguised we will be able to enter the Ministry of Magic. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Mark Antony, a brilliant general who served under Caesar, took on Caesar’s duties as head of state. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “I’m not exactly certain. I may need your help. You’re the brilliant one in the family. Do you want me to take you out into the garden? It’s a beautiful evening.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Below the chandeliers spread an indoor city of “gilded domes and glittering minarets, mosques, palaces, kiosks, and brilliant pavilions,” according to the popular Rand, McNally & Co. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then Roy felt himself swaying and spinning as a brilliant gout of fireworks erupted inside his skull. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gleaming in the brilliant midday sun, they appeared no different from the harmless puffs of convection condensation that rose from the valley almost every afternoon. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Yet ahead to the south in the Weddell Sea, brilliant blue icebergs shone in the polar sun like the walls and ramparts of a fortress. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The clouds overhead parted from time to time and let the brilliant moonlight through—so bright that Malcolm almost had to shade his eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z With the newly hatched salmon in the Miramichi that spring of 1954 were young of previous hatchings, salmon a year or two old, young fish in brilliant coats marked with bars and bright red spots. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I wonder what she is thinking,” Aunty Uju said sadly, musingly While she was in America, The General had one of the bedrooms repainted a brilliant white. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Whereas the buildings of Sumer and Assyria were covered with brilliant mosaics and splendid pictorial murals, the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Interesting . . . and brilliant . . . and mysterious . . . and perfect . . . and beautiful . . . and possibly able to lift full-sized vans with one hand. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We stand in front of our exhibits while parents we don’t know come up and tell us how brilliant we are. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighborhoods below with prizes for the kite runners. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the school itself I was disappointed to find that I was not the most brilliant or even nearly the most brilliant student. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She had brilliant gold hair braided into a circle at her crown, with wisps catching on the cowl and poking wildly out of the plait. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “So simple...so brilliant...he cut it off himself?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “But I have to say that you’re rather brilliant, Captain. So brilliant, actually, that I might give you one of the jewels I plan to steal from the queen tonight.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z One day, however, remains particularly vivid, a brilliant Saturday in October, one of the last summery days we had that year. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The window is entirely dark except for the outlines of block letters, shining, brilliant words that hang between myself and whatever is on the other side of the glass. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The brilliant young organizer was experimenting, and always hoping that a misstep wouldn’t cause the entire enterprise to blow up in his face. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And then, as the sun sank reluctantly behind the treetops, the haze hardened to a brilliant brownish- yellow. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw avocado pear after avocado pear being stuffed with crabmeat and mayonnaise and photographed under brilliant lights. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z "You are brilliant, O Your Grandness! You are fantabulous!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Lee Scoresby’s ghost looked through and saw a wide, quiet prairie under a brilliant moon, so very like his own homeland that he thought he’d been blessed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One was a deep, vivid red and the other a brilliant orangey-yellow. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Where in the world did you get these? Who is this brilliant woman?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly always the sky was a glassy, brilliant azure and the sun burned down riotously bright. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It had been “believed in some quarters that brilliant new ideas would flow from the establishment of competition,” he wrote Colonel Fields at the AEC. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I ask, feeling like a fire- work just set off, rising and rising and full of brilliant anticipation. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z However amazing the stars were, Calypso was twice as brilliant. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Their ideas and brilliant work made the experiment possible. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Twinkling with colored lights, shiny balls, white doves, jeweled icicles, and miles of silver tinsel, it was topped by a brilliant star and skirted with gifts wrapped in finery. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z A score of genuinely brilliant military leaders who also confronted a superior enemy force—Hannibal, Robert E. Lee, and Napoleon come to mind—were eventually defeated because they presumed that victory meant winning battles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Which one of you came up with that brilliant idea?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z His eyes sparked the way they did when he had a brilliant idea. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Ama saw a streak of white materialize at the girl’s throat as her dæmon effortfully changed into a long, sinuous, snowy-furred creature with brilliant black eyes and black-tipped tail, and laid himself alongside her neck. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The word exploded from her and burst into a brilliant cloud of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He hoped to provide visitors with a banquet of glimpses—the undersides of leaves sparkling with reflected light; flashes of brilliant color between fronds of tall grass waving in the breeze. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I don’t come up with my brilliant idea right then and there. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “God, that is a brilliant album,” Radar said without looking away from the computer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He was so lovely that he seemed to shed a brilliant radiance and his long, black hair hung loose far down his back. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, brilliant idea, ’Pet,” Widget says when he sees it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When they came out of the building, it was into brilliant spring sunshine. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Mrs. Corcoran, leaving Hampden, walked through the crush of her old pals the reporters with her eyes averted and her teeth clenched in a brilliant hateful smile. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It had nearly black skin on top which was covered with brilliant orange spots, and it had, of course, been perfectly poached. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z One knight wore an intricate suit of white enameled scales, brilliant as a field of new-fallen snow, with silver chasings and clasps that glittered in the sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z You had only to look at Lazlo to know it would be brilliant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You’d be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The screen faded to a brilliant blue and my bike-a-thon flyer appeared. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist. He ran the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer tested the atomic bomb in the middle of a desert in New Mexico.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The brilliant part is that the king always thinks it’s his idea for them to keep going. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Waiting outside the Hideout in the face-scrunching cold, she says hi without looking at me, and I say hi back, and then she says, "This band is so completely brilliant," and I say, "I know." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “One of us has to say something soon. Ideally a witty or brilliant observation,” Kareem says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Some brilliant satire on the decadent Old South being cast before the unaware swine in the Night of Joy audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had about what he wanted now and the rest of the time he looked under stones, leaned down and peered into the tide pools with their brilliant mosaics and their scuttling, bubbling life. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t know what he meant at first, as I thought I’d done a dead brilliant job of destroying it myself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The grass shimmered with silvery evening light, and the flowers were such brilliant colors they almost glowed in the dark. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The great Trojan champion had never before shown himself so brilliant and so brave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark looked up at the branches of the trees, finding a clear spot that revealed brilliant stars overhead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The problem was that this most special, magnificent, brilliant boy was—well, not. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a brilliant starburst appeared straight ahead, followed by another and another. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Jason showed the meanness that was in him, brilliant hero though he had seemed to be: he engaged himself to marry the daughter of the King of Corinth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z On the end of the platform Piggy was lying flat, looking down into the brilliant water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She shoves his shoulder and pouts, her lips a brilliant shade of coral. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He stepped out the door into the brilliant sunshine. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When she moved her hands, they flashed in the brilliant sunlight: diamonds, rubies, sapphires. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft effect of the light over the sea and sky—merged together in one great, silent mystery—was beautiful beyond words. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And one could only be left to sit back and witness this spectacle, waiting to see if anything brilliant or cathartic would come about. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Only the most brilliant clothing and accessories designer in the world!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Patch-Withers’ face was reaching a brilliant shade, and his wife’s head fell as though before the guillotine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Her stomach heaved, for this meant that she had to walk through the cavern, past all the cages and all those strange creatures with their sad, brilliant eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Beyond the houses and the street, rolling green hills frilled with clumps of trees and flowers brushed up against a brilliant blue sky. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Up close, though, these warring hues were offset by the brilliant ring of gold around her pupils. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The brilliant success of the screw-worm campaign has stimulated tremendous interest in applying the same methods to other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Levy won’t let us retire her. She thinks it’s better for Miss Trixie to keep active. Mrs. Levy is a brilliant, educated woman. She’s taken a correspondence course in psychology.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As we got closer, the smile on his face bloomed into something brilliant, and I recognized him then as the man from Cate’s thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As a result of such attitudes, the brilliant and promising Ionian experimental method was largely abandoned for two thousand years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You might be the single most brilliant mind to ever attend the school—at least since my daughter got there.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “You must know,” said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, “that I have no heart,—if that has anything to do with my memory.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z A few men wore robes made of satinlike material; some were red, others a brilliant purple. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know about brilliant. We need to find the River of Fire.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Maybe he wonders what happened to a brilliant, growing concern,” Mrs. Levy observed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While looking at the brilliant frothing colors, cerise, orange, bright blue, red and yellow, she had a feeling that something was stealthily concealed behind those costumes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not brilliant, but he was no tyrant. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As Minli stared into his bowls with her shining black eyes, a brilliant orange fish stared back at her with its shining black eyes. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The merchant’s unhealthy, brilliant eyes quivered and glittered. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Here we have two very brilliant young students, each of whom runs into a problem that imperils his college career. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z You know of his brilliant career, how already he was a moving orator; then his penniless graduation and his return after years to this country. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His left hand, motionless on the armrest, with a fresh, unlighted cigarette between the fingers, looked oddly white and inorganic in the brilliant sunlight. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She flourishes her brilliant fingernails and breaks into childlike laughter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was, in retrospect, quite brilliant when it came to manipulating us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same way, some chess players can be emotionally stirred by mentally replaying a brilliant game by a great master. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Felix had an idea, and he wasn't sure if it was brilliant or ridiculous. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Down, down the winding passage they went, through darkness and spider webs and dripping water, until at last they emerged into a cold wind, brilliant sunlight, and the sound of waves breaking on rocks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He told her that she was beautiful and brilliant, and that he wanted them to build a life together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Now she looked Lord Asriel full in the face and seemed to speak to him alone, her voice low and passionate, her brilliant eyes glittering. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I can no longer speak to my own son. The Master of the Universe gave me a brilliant son, a phenomenon. And I cannot speak to him.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Better I should have had no son at all than to have a brilliant son who had no soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Halleck occupied Corinth the next day, it was true, but there was an empty ring to his boast that this was a “victory as brilliant and important as any recorded in history.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other people who suffered from ALS, Morrie knew, some of them famous, such as Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist and author of A Brief History of Time. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In Edgar Snow’s brilliant Red Star Over China I saw that it was Mao’s determination and nontraditional thinking that led him to victory. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The edge of a brilliant red sun was now gleaming through the trees. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The air in the cabin was brilliant; there was a flash to the light that told her it had snowed while she slept! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The first faint light hit the silver of the hatchet and it flashed a brilliant gold in the light Like fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z A brilliant greenish light as bright as the brightest electric bulb was shining out of its tail and lighting up the whole room. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z "You must have a great father then. He must be a brilliant teacher." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z At university, he had been brilliant with electronics, he fixed CD players that were considered lost causes, and his was the first personal computer Obinze had ever seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Well, I knew it was brilliant. Are the others still at Ida's?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z A speed enthusiast knows that everything he says or does is brilliant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The day came, full of brilliant, hot sunshine like most Roman summer days. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z As the professor told Mrs. Singleton that Colin was brilliant, was a very special boy, Colin played with wooden alphabet blocks. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Better for him to get attacked while she came up with a brilliant plan. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When the singing finally ceased, a cheery hill covered by a fragrant array of brilliant blossoms and mature fruit trees had replaced the Forgotten Chapel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A car painted a brilliant, glittering blue appeared on the horizon and pulled into the driveway and coasted to a stop. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z A girl who knew Robert as a child in New York City described him as “very frail, very pink-cheeked, very shy, and very brilliant.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "I ran the numbers. They all check out. It is brilliant course. Amazing." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose,” he drawled, turning those brilliant blue eyes on Celaena, “that it will be difficult for Lady Lillian and I as well. Perhaps more so.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Her brilliant obsidian eyes were unreadable, but her smile was friendly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z All were the same, a brilliant white diffused with gray, I closed my eyes for a moment and looked again and still no change. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s a brilliant thing to put my idle mind to work on: making a bomb. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z You know, clever and modest and brilliant and perfect, like that. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The light blue Caribbean sky was alive with angels of all colors and sizes; they fluttered merrily toward some unseen source of brilliant light. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A brilliant flash of light accompanied the detonation, momentarily blinding me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Lightning lanced through the sky like a trident, and for a second the entire island was lit up in brilliant blinding light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She was standing on a rock three or four paces away from Will and Lyra, distinct and brilliant in the moonlight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z "And what alleged process of thought led to that brilliant pronouncement?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The bricks were red, the sky was brilliant blue, the knots in the barbed wire sparkled like ladies’ earrings. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Michael was a brilliant theorist and was working on policy matters for the Communist Party and needed a quiet and safe place to work on this full-time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That doesn’t mean he isn’t brilliant or an extraordinary entrepreneur. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The gravity of relativity theory was brilliant at explaining why planets orbited suns or why galaxies tended to cluster, but turned out to have no influence at all at the particle level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Finley made them sound as if they were naturally brilliant, and I studied the images, trying to discern who they were. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z "You know, Thief Lord," he snarled in Scipio's direction, "you can't possibly hatch any brilliant plans, because you're nothing more than a clone of your father." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now that’s a brilliant observation. We’ve got some mosquito netting, and I could sew some of that around the top, find some way to fasten it so you could open and close it.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z As his hagiographers tell the story, Kim II Sung’s most important intellectual achievement—his brilliant juche idea—asserts that national pride goes hand in glove with self-reliance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The video snapped off and a brilliant blue filled the screen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z No matter what the motive, Sky Witness’s plan to dismantle Mutal was brilliant—in the short run, anyway. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Small wonder the crowd goes wild when Peeta and I appear, looking so young and strong and beautiful in our brilliant costumes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We saw the tall buildings in the distance before we got to them, long rows of huge white apartment towers against a brilliant blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was there, by brilliant moonlight, that Cox saw the initials J.W.B. tattooed on the hand of the injured stranger. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t actually think they would come back, because she’d done something brilliant she was rather proud of. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z As she said it, we realized the moon was full and brilliant above us. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Some agents he ran personally; some worked under Major John Clark, a brilliant Continental Army officer “on spy service.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he is done, Booth has come up with a bold—and brilliant—plan. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A girl, pixie haired and smiling, was floating above the ocean, rays arrowing out from behind her, where a brilliant red-orange sun was rising. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “That was brilliant,” Henry says, smiling, in the flesh, finally. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “It’s pretty brilliant, actually. Sometimes I pretend to fall asleep for the same reason,” he admits. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe every other generation, the ones he’d never known, had been full of brilliant adventurers and romantic dreamers, like himself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I’m Ernie, and this brilliant acrobat here is my brother, Genie.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I could have told him that Margaret had said, “I have no doubt that Dr. Zamborska is brilliant, but he is also stupid.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew my performance would have to be brilliant, as several of the masters were now less than impressed by me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As for the course, that wasn’t difficult, either: the lightning that flickered around the Mountain served as a brilliant beacon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I had recently finished Naked Lunch and wanted to see where Burroughs had been insane, or brilliant, or both. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Her eyes shone behind her glasses, brilliant, fiery. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We are privileged to live among brilliant and passionately inquisitive people, and in a time when the search for knowledge is generally prized. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She rolled down her window and gave us a brilliant smile. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Her face twisted, and her entire being went a brilliant violet. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He was a brilliant, charming, work-obsessed man, and watched me from behind his desk with keen eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He heard admiration voiced for a brilliant young officer named McClellan, who had been put in top command of the army in the East. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The success of the brilliant legal crusade that led to Brown v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The children couldn’t see this right away—it took a moment for their eyes to adjust to the brilliant sunlight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Thinking she was possibly brilliant, like his mother, he seemed to expect brilliance from her, and she delivered. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Longstreet cleared the brain, blew away bloody images, the brilliant fence in the bright gleaming air of the afternoon, tried to catalogue the dead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a bit more than two weeks, around twenty-four million miles, after my seventeenth birthday, the Perseids scattered brilliant torrents of blazing dust all across the nighttime sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The medical discoveries made by such brilliant scientists as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led to procedures such as vaccination and measures such as quarantines that, when mandated by the government, saved millions of lives. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Suddenly his face lit up, like that of a man who, faced with utter and humiliating defeat, at the last minute strikes upon a brilliant, face- saving idea. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My entire stay there might have been time lost if it hadn’t been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “A brilliant strategy. My own war-leader couldn’t have arranged it better.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Matilda was both of these things, but above all she was brilliant. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Why, it’s absolutely brilliant!” cried the Old-Green-Grasshopper when James had explained his plan. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant snake's eyes that were set so deep in that dreadful rotting worm-eaten face glared unblinkingly at the witches who sat facing her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “The eighth graders loved my name for our mission model. I told them it was our destiny to win the competition, and that this was our child. They thought it was brilliant.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z There was nothing very surprising in that; but again, I was rather surprised, when he said, as if he were animated by a brilliant idea,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Monterey is a city with a long and brilliant literary tradition. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z For all his success, Rutherford was not an especially brilliant man and was actually pretty terrible at mathematics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He had a brilliant gift for minding his own business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z So Voldemort went off to Borgin and Burkes, and all the staff who had admired him said what a waste it was, a brilliant young wizard like that, working in a shop. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When I saw the brilliant orange flame in the night, I saw better than ever before how gray was the world I lived in. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It was a shock, like walking from the dismal swamps into sudden brilliant sunlight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The street lamps glowed brilliant in the moonlit dream of the campus, each light serene in its cage of shadows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked through the manioc, brilliant green parrots scattering before me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z By the end of his first year he would never again be known as the son of a Muggle-hater, but as nothing more or less than the most brilliant student ever seen at the school. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “In theater, everything is staged and organized. It goes in order and fits together. I’ve seen how Mr. Volpe is so brilliant at that, and it’s helped me organize my life in the same way.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He was a handsome, sophisticated medical doctor with curly dark hair and round Fiorucci spectacles, a brilliant, ambitious man, charming and persuasive, with a quick, flaring temper, who had done extraordinary things in his career. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence presented the data, and Oppenheimer followed with a “typically stupefyingly brilliant exposition of its theoretical consequences,” which his hundreds of spectators strained to make out through his “nim-nim-nim” mumbling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He hung heavily with his legs in the water, a salmon struggling in the net beside him, the skin of his collarbones, just above the highest waves, hued an icy but brilliant pink. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It snaked out in all directions, forming a brilliant flash that burned through the wallpaper and melted the paint underneath. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant young attorney fumbled through a stack of papers, felt his pockets, and finally found the letter in his briefcase. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, he died before he could conduct the experiments and both the idea and the necessary equipment were passed on to a brilliant but magnificently retiring London scientist named Henry Cavendish. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It seemed that he was of all men the most gloriously successful, after a brilliant victory back with his own again, peace and prosperity before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were—large, brilliant, and black. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A cloudy film blanketed the brilliant blue of his eyes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sasha was the brilliant one, the one who blazed through calculus, linguistics, physics, and computer programming with a kind of effortlessness. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We, in brilliant contrast, are completely organized structures, squirming with information at every covalent bond. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Under a brilliant blue sky Wethersfield held far more welcome than on that first foggy dawn. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Kepler was a brilliant thinker and a lucid writer, but he was a disaster as a classroom teacher. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see beads of brilliant light through the weave of the scarf. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You stare out at tracer rounds unwinding through the dark like brilliant red ribbons. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was remarkable how he could show every one of those brilliant teeth even when he wasn’t talking. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z |
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