Sentence examples for a brilliant description from inspiring English sources

"Gethsemane" by Elizabeth Cox is a somewhat foggy Christian parable, redeemed by a brilliant description of an airship escaping a volcanic eruption.

In Bernard Cornwell's book, Sharpe's Prey, there's a brilliant description of a gambling den in the East End where they are running a rat match.

Shortly after losing his seat as MP for Govan in 1992, the SNP's former deputy leader Jim Sillars bitterly applauded McIlvanney's image as a "brilliant description of the country", which in his view seemed incapable of asserting its own identity.

Vivian in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (the Lauren Bacall role in the 1946 film) wears a mannish tweed suit, shirt and tie, and "hand-carved walking shoes" – a brilliant description instantly summoning up a picture of highly-polished brogues.

There is a brilliant description of a scene at a pub in York, where all around them people are drunk and jovial, while Cathy and her dad – out of earshot of her mother, whom they don't want to upset – talk about the biggest and saddest decision they will ever have to make: whether to turn off Matty's life-support machine.

It's a brilliant description of a play that is full of memorable characters including the rich Volpone, known as the Fox, who together with his servant Mosca feigns terminal illness in order to dupe others into showering him with extravagant gifts in the hope that they may benefit from his will.

She gave a rather brilliant description of the archetypal case: a member of the comfortably rich deciding not to give money to the poor, but to comfort himself instead with a Twitter rant calling Michael Gove a "vile, reptilian Tory scumbag", before popping off for a caramel macchiato with some pals from the BBC.

The book I would most like to get for Christmas is Francis Plug: How to Be a Public Author Galley Beggar Presss) by Paul Ewen, largely because of its brilliant description of AS Byatt resembling "an illustrated personification of the wind".

And then there was her brilliant description of people interested in lexicography as "fusty, dry, pedantic academics".

Terzani earned his wisdom, and passed it on to his readers in Italy, Germany and many other countries, through nearly four decades of intrepid exploration, brilliant description, occasional celebration and increasingly despairing criticism of the direction in which the world, and especially the Asia he loved, was heading.

Is that not the most brilliant description of management ever limned?