Sentence examples for brightest a from inspiring English sources

He also reread David Halberstam's 1972 book "The Best and the Brightest," a withering indictment of ivory tower intellectuals' role in planning the Vietnam War.

They were not only the best as players but also among the brightest, a group whose influence now guides the league.

One model sees them as a celebration of the unquestioned best and brightest, a triumphal parade for marquee authors who have published in a given year.

Go back a couple of decades and Mr Delanoë was seen as one of the Socialist Party's best and brightest: a member of parliament, the party's official spokesman, and a friend and ally of its new first secretary, Lionel Jospin.

Screenings start Thursday, when "The Best and the Brightest," a comedy with Neil Patrick Harris about the cutthroat competition for acceptance at elite kindergartens, will be shown in Port Washington.

"Or are you prepared to tell us that your friends are the best and the brightest?" A black man standing in front of a check-cashing store asks the candidates how they would stop predatory lending in low-income neighborhoods.

It is possible that further restricting phase measurements to only the brightest A-lines in the cone may improve phase sensitivity a possibility meriting further investigation.

"He was very bright, a bright young man".

We're not that bright an animal.

"He's extremely bright, an outstanding scholar.

Theirs seemed to be a charmed school district -- a place of hearty volunteerism, where high school seniors went on to Ivy League colleges, and residents believed their school board was run by "the best and the brightest" -- a team of savvy lawyers, corporate executives and super-educated academics.