Sentence examples for a certain brilliance from inspiring English sources

He wanted a certain brilliance in the sound, and he liked to give us extremely difficult music.

"He has a certain brilliance," said Steven Simon, a counterterrorism expert at the RAND Corporation who worked with Mr. Clarke in the Clinton White House.

Yes, many of the machinations were Machiavellian, but there was a certain brilliance to some of the moves, as in a chess game masterfully played.

Macdonald simply took for granted the fact that membership in a community conferred on him a certain accredited brilliance.

Handsome, affable, charming, and possessed of a certain superficial brilliance, Pierce made many friends in Congress, but his career there was otherwise undistinguished.

But it does take a certain kind of brilliance to mine the comic absurdities in a continuing news story featuring such sobering phenomena as a grotesque tyrant, the wholesale loss of human life and a president even his political opponents are afraid to take on.

What he produces, exhausting and ultimately bewildering as it is, is not without a certain visual and conceptual brilliance, or, thankfully, a sense of humor.

Foursomes doesn't immediately seem like Watson's forte but his propensity for moments of astonishing brilliance – a certain play‑off shot at the Masters is a case in point – renders him a worthy team member.

But "Duets" has its moments of brilliance, and a certain reckless integrity.

MTV retired the award (because, really, how could it top itself) and Howard's career got a huge boost, as he entered the realm of actors (such as Bill Murray and Christopher Walken) whose presence in a film virtually guaranteed a certain measure of campy, self-aware brilliance.

Thomas Campion's Follow Thy Fair Sun is a fine example, with its reminders that the sun's brilliance can result in both deep shadow and a certain amount of painful scorching.