Sentence examples for brilliant circle from inspiring English sources

In 1775 he was elected to the Club, the brilliant circle that the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds had formed round the writer and lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson.

The Earl of Clarendon considered him as "a person of pleasant and facetious wit" among a brilliant circle of friends that included the playwright Ben Jonson.

But at the beginning of the Kamakura period, a brilliant circle of waka poets around the retired emperor Go-Toba produced a new imperial selection of poems entitled the Shin kokin wakashū.

Paoli visited him in Scotland in 1771; in 1773 he was elected to The Club, the brilliant circle that Sir Joshua Reynolds had formed around Dr. Johnson; and later in the year Johnson made with him the famous tour of the Hebrides.

Allan Cunningham, (born December 7 , 1784 Keir, Dumfriesshire, Scotland died October 30, 1842, London, England) Scottish poet, a member of the brilliant circle of writers that included Thomas De Quincey, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, John Keats, and Thomas Hood, who were contributors to the London Magazine in its heyday in the early 1820s.

Cowell presided over one of the most important jazz recordings of the late sixties, "Brilliant Circles"; he and Hopps were founding members of the exciting quartet Music, Inc., but, with his own trio on "Illusion Suite," Cowell finds a remarkable tone that, as personal as it is, set something like a template for a new modernist classicism.

This stifling period of confinement was followed by the most exciting time of Burney's life, when her already extensive intellectual and social network was enlarged by a brilliant, witty circle of exiled French aristocrats and their English sympathizers, a band that included Louis de Narbonne (the ex-minister of war), Talleyrand and the notorious Mme. de Staël.

Malevich also acquired antagonists, in the brilliant Constructivist circle of Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Rodchenko, and several others, who advanced a machine-inspired aesthetic that was supposedly truer to the spirit and the needs of the Revolution than Suprematism.

But there's one towering, brilliant difference: Circles.

Under his coat, Ejiofor has on a thin, grey jumper, the sleeves rolled up and brilliant sweat circles showing under his arms whenever he unfolds and refolds them.

The march of the 53 teams into the arena began, five thousand of the finest athletes in the world, in their uniforms of white, or crimson, or green, or brilliant blue, circling the track and forming up in a dense array on the grass.