It is impossible not to be moved by the sight of Aung San Suu Kyi, a slim, bright figure among the exultant crowds as she led the National League for Democracy to an overwhelming victory in Burma's first real elections for 22 years.
Five thousand men shouted, "Guti," and Gutiérrez Hernández, a tiny bright figure, was drawn away from his teammates like a puppet on a string, raising his arm as if in surrender.
In a memo to employees, Mr. Mehta said that Mr. Green, 79, "has worked with some of the best and the brightest figures in the world of letters".
But the largest political youth group in Norway, the AUF, had its heart ripped out by the massacre on Utoya island, losing a number of its brightest figures, some of whom had been expected to rise to the top.
White doesn't hesitate, though, in saying Rousey is already a one of the UFC's brightest figures.
A mysterious tinsel-bright figure glimmering through a translucent sheet.
The brightest figure in what has been a woeful Rutgers running game was Jason Nugent, who had carried the ball only three times until today.
No matter how low her character falls — and "I'll Cry Tomorrow" goes so far as to imagine her having a one-night stand with Timothy Carey, the great, mad character actor of many of Stanley Kubrick's films — she remains the center of her own private universe, the brightest figure in a gray landscape.
Buoyed by what he said were hundreds of messages of support, including a number from fellow international coaches, Lancaster cut a far brighter figure than the desolate individual who declared five days ago that England's early exit would never leave him.
Both Ly6Chi and Ly6Clo monocytes were RFP positive, but Ly6Chi cells were brighter (Figure 2I).
