A professor, a brilliant older student, a girl.
"Susan's like a brilliant older sister," says writer and friend Darryl Pinckney.
In the blurb for Casino Royale he wrote that winning the Eton athletics prize two years running had only once been equalled "presumably by another second son trying to compensate for a brilliant older brother".
One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt.
Why fix what isn't broken, when you could just smash the classics through a magic graphicsinator, allowing us all to enjoy that brilliant old gameplay alongside whizzy new visuals?
His stand-off with Ingram was brilliant: "Old man?" indeed.
The Castle and Gulliver's are brilliant "old bloke" pubs with great jukeboxes and where they serve pickled eggs.
In 2009, he told Indore police about a racket that was distributing exam questions and arranging for Munnabhais — usually brilliant older students — to take tests on behalf of paying clients.
Some Derby winners do become brilliant older horses.
Andy intuited her pain, but thought that it must be because he played so badly compared with his brilliant older brother.
