The phrase "a brilliant understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone's exceptional grasp or insight into a subject or concept.
Example: "Her ability to analyze complex theories demonstrated a brilliant understanding of the topic."
Alternatives: "an exceptional grasp" or "a profound insight."
"He also has a brilliant understanding of the book as a physical object".
But as we've already established, David Bowie has always shown a brilliant understanding of how to promote records.
Saturday possesses a brilliant understanding of what we see in that view, and what we could possibly do about some of the horrors to be found there.
"Bob has a brilliant understanding of our business, but he's not a cheerleader," said Mr. Meyer, who has promised that next year's movie slate will show a vast improvement.
From the moment he told Melody Maker's Michael Watts he was gay – one of the great audacious moves in rock history from a man whose previous two albums had failed to even make the charts – Bowie has always shown a brilliant understanding of how to promote records.
Torsten Frings, now able to rove and pick out colleagues in the acres of space opened by Diego, has scarcely looked better, and Miroslav Klose, who broke out of a long scoring drought against Mainz, has built a brilliant understanding with his strike partner Aaron Hunt.
("... Whether after all he doesn't come at all....".) Mr. Reuss writes of their days and dismays with brilliant understanding and a painter's rich detail.
I'm a Lana Del Rey guy, identifying with her main talent as a writer, her artistic juxtaposition of external decadence with internal panic, and her brilliant understanding that being a modern poet requires more public presence than just a pen.
His brilliant understanding of the recording industry proved invaluable.
Her brilliant understanding of children, and her passionate respect for how they learn, have shaped our philosophy and will become her enduring legacy.
In an essay titled "On Intelligence and Courage" (Mingdan lun), Ji Kang thus disputed the assertion that those who possess intelligence or brilliant understanding are sure to have courage.
