He could be a brilliant, big-game pitcher, but not consistently.
True to his promise, Mr. Summers made the case that despite its $26 billion endowment, Harvard needed the alumni's money, presumably for financial aid for those brilliant, big-hearted kids.
He's a brilliant big-ensemble visionary but has lately shown how effectively he can design a smaller outfit, and relishes returning to his role as the keys-playing sideman in the process.
I never liked Elizabeth Gilbert's gratingly simplistic memoirs, but her last novel, The Signature Of All Things, is astonishingly brilliant: big-hearted and beady-eyed, it looks at how the romantic fantasy can corrode a woman's imagination and blind her to reality.
These are mostly the same: she was generous, brilliant, had big eyes, loved turbans and low-cut dresses, and was not beautiful.
I'm not brilliant in big rooms and I have small children, so it's difficult to do the face-to-face networking thing.
It is wonderful to see some of the best of this work float free of the Greenbergian claims for greatness and inevitability, propelled by the fantastic soft power of brilliant color, big scale and judicious amounts of pristine raw canvas -- especially as wielded by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski.
"It was a brilliant performance, big credit to the players, their attitude was tremendous and it was important to keep a clean sheet," added Rodgers.
12. Elizabeth Gilbert discusses the concept of "creative entitlement" in her brilliant book, Big Magic.
He opens with the brilliant My Biggest Fan, from his new album Here Come the Choppers.
