The Good Wife makes every promotion Alicia gets as somehow about something besides her brilliant legal skills.
If all goes as planned, his tenure will have lasted 20 years, longer than that of any Cleveland conductor besides the brilliant, tyrannical George Szell, whose quarter-century reign ended with his death in 1970.
He endows the character with some attributes that remind the reader of David Foster Wallace — besides being brilliant and given to depression, we're told that Leonard loves philosophy, chews tobacco, wears a bandanna on his head, and runs to stay in shape — but never welds these elements together convincingly with Leonard's aspirations as a scientist and his day-to-day life.
And I can tell you that besides being brilliant, he is not what we call a concrete socialist.
Freud himself, besides being a brilliant clinical observer, was a world-class spinner of explanatory tales.
There is an occasional exception like Seamus Heaney's best-selling version of Beowulf, but, Ms. Ripley noted that besides being a brilliant translation, it was "very thin".
Fascinated by the fact that little was known about the famous book's genesis, Hayes combed through nineteenth-century letters and medical-school records, learning that, besides Henry Gray, the brilliant scholar and surgeon who wrote the text, another anatomist was crucial to the book's popularity: Henry Vandyke Carter, who provided its painstaking drawings.
I chose The Empathic Civilization as this month's selection because, besides being a brilliant read and offering a vitally important perspective, it is the perfect companion piece to last month's selection, Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market.
Lansing is an ex-actress who, besides being beautiful, is brilliant and tall.
"And besides, he's a brilliant dancer". It's telling that his praise began with the solicitous behavior of Mr. Evans, who exudes warmth onstage and off.
