It seemed almost unconfidently snuck out, when something this brilliant called for a great deal of showing off.
The other piece of the Great Table is thought to have been recut as an oval, pink, 60-carat brilliant called the Nūr ol-ʿEyn (meaning "light of the eye").
The stone was cut to a 141-carat cushion brilliant called the Pitt diamond and was purchased in 1717 by the Duke of Orléans, regent of France hence its present name.
They added 69, the biggest partnership of the day, which only highlights the fact that England were unable to benefit from Cook's brilliant call of heads.
To his many detractors, McCarver's brilliant call was just another example of him trying to prove how much smarter he is than they are, and why he's so annoying.
The manager of a hedge fund, he appeared on Charlie Rose's show in 1989 to urge investors to sell the Nikkei at 38,000 and buy the Dow at 3,000 -- a brilliant call.
Buffett Buffett 's brilliant call in buying Brazilian currency (the real) never got a nod, even though Standard & Poor's raised that nation's credit to investment grade last week.
New York Times editor Bill Keller made a brilliant call in signing Silver up as a columnist.
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