Sentence examples for a sequence of brilliant from inspiring English sources

A sequence of brilliant set pieces narrates the footloose Augie's upward drift.

Martin found his groove with a sequence of brilliant comedy records by the Goons, Flanders and Swann, and the cast of Beyond the Fringe.

In particular, Woolf applauded the comic perfection of the scene at Kilvert's cousin Maria's funeral in Worcester cathedral where, in a sequence of brilliant descriptive strokes, the pallbearers are depicted staggering under the weight of the "crushingly heavy" coffin, which threatens at times to topple over and kill or maim them.

Akira Nishimura's "Corps d'arc-en-ciel" ("Rainbow Body") — part virtuoso concerto for chamber orchestra, part Messiaenic reverie — evoked a Tibetan Buddhist master's after-death ascension in a sequence of seven brilliant episodes.

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

Undistinguished by plot, the short sequence of brilliant sketches created more stir in Russia than any other single work of Chekhov's, partly owing to his rejection of the convention whereby writers commonly presented the Russian peasantry in sentimentalized and debrutalized form.

From a dramatic perspective, though, the work is less a sustained narrative than a sequence of scenes vividly limned through beguiling melodies and brilliant orchestration.

The third part of his brilliant trilogy, which includes "Triste" and "Variations," this is a sequence of exquisitely observed images of vanishing moments in a world in motion.

From spring to autumn a succession of brilliant wildflowers bloom.

But there were telling moments of synchronicity: a sequence of loud attacks was precisely matched by a series of lightning strikes on the film, revealing Salonen's brilliant co-ordination of the musicians.

Maybe a sequence of earthquakes discouraged them.