Sentence examples for a less brilliant from inspiring English sources

A less brilliant, more emollient character might have carried more weight with his successors.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas!" would have been the standout performance in a less brilliant movie.

A less brilliant idea, from ESPN Classic, was its digital insertion of Lotrimin ads at home plate in 10- and 20-year-old baseball games, a brief scheme passed off by the network as educational.

It was a rival who patented the polygraph, however, and the evidence adduced by Lepore suggests that Marston was a less brilliant psychologist than a self-deluding charlatan and failure in almost everything he turned his hand to – academia, business, Hollywood screenwriting, advertising and law.

Lesser cut diamonds allow some light to escape from the bottom of the stone, resulting in a less brilliant diamond.

The only thing that matters regarding clarity is that you should not be able to see the imperfections with the naked eye -- an imperfection will not make the diamond any less brilliant or fiery.

No one thinks they are any less brilliant for it.

They utilized thicker membranes and sticks than modern instruments, producing a heavier, less brilliant sound.

Those two really brilliant influences have combined to make something a lot less brilliant but quite good nonetheless.

It will be much more difficult than in 2004, when John Kerry was defeated by a far less brilliant George W. Bush.

"I did this NPR Weekend Edition interview," she recalled, "and I was driving home, and I said to my husband, 'Well, I was a little less brilliant than I wanted to be.' I was perfectly great, I was myself, but I wasn't better than myself, is what I was telling him.