Example sentences for: brilliance

How can you use “brilliance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was an "amazingly varied body of work" that was "unified not only by bizarre brilliance but also by its rare ability to disturb" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). His most commonly cited shortcoming is what many critics describe as "coldness," even in his most accomplished films.

  • Take North's celebrated score for A Streetcar Named Desire : The score's brilliance lies in the way the languorous New Orleans jazz, redolent of sin, plumes out of the dive up the street from the Kowalskis', curls along the block, and squeezes itself through a radio.

  • Refugees from Córdoba and Sevilla flooded into the city, bringing with them their many talents and skills and adding to the city’s brilliance.

  • The Middle Ages in Italy were far from being the murky era that many humanist scholars liked to contrast with the brilliance of the Renaissance.

  • West along Via Vittorio Eman­uele, the Palace of the Normans (Palazzo dei Normanni) was built by the Saracens as a ninth-century fortress and later turned into a royal residence, appropriate setting for the later brilliance and luxury of Emperor Frederick II’s Sicilian court (see page 22).


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