The phrase "a brilliant head" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is very intelligent or has exceptional mental abilities.
Example: "In the world of science, she is known for her innovative ideas and a brilliant head that constantly pushes the boundaries of research."
Alternatives: "a sharp mind" or "an exceptional intellect."
A little to his own surprise, he turned out to have a brilliant head for logic and mathematics, and though he eventually took divine orders, he found his calling as a lecturer in math.
"Dominic has been a brilliant head of features and is one of the most talented journalists in Fleet Street, and I am delighted to see him secure such a major promotion" Shanahan will continue writing his column and supervise the move the the paper's new headquarters, the location of which has still not been announced.
As are Melvyn Bragg's seemingly interminable quartet of novels about a brilliant, working-class young man with an equally brilliant head of hair, who was forced to leave the small town of Wigtown in Cumbria, where horses and carts clip-clopped outside his privy, to fulfil his potential as one of the greatest broadcasters of his age.
A violence had been visited on him in the form of his soft, brilliant head coming into contact with an unyielding and uncaring tree.
It "resembles a July 4th skyrocket," complete with a "brilliant blazing head and a long, star-studded tail," NASA said in a release.
Unfortunately, Sorkin went and ruined it by turning a compelling concept into pompous, speechifying TV, with Matthew Perry's supposedly brilliant head scribe – there's not really any evidence for this "brilliant" tag, but we hear about it roughly 20 times an episode – as a surrogate for Sorkin himself.
We become pleasurably locked in his insane, brilliant head.
What shines out from this book is the skill and attention to detail of the brilliant head gardener Sue Dickinson and her team.
Alongside her brilliant head writer Jessi Klein, Amy Schumer dives deep into the honest experiences of modern day women by embracing the indelicacies and indignities of everyday life.
At the time, Chatsworth was the horticultural domain of Sir Joseph Paxton, the brilliant head gardener who erected its Great Conservatory (and later designed the Crystal Palace) and founded Pastons Magazine of Botany.
Even its brilliant head of communication Frank Shaw finds it oddly difficult to work his way out of the box they're in.
