Sentence examples for brilliant compared from inspiring English sources

But if I ever had average readers, they would still be brilliant compared with Americans of a century ago.

In 2004, Frank stretched his record to 13-0, making him look positively brilliant compared with Scott, who had a 22-20 record when he was fired.

Hales has yet to play a 50-over match for England but Giles maintained this was an informed non-selection: "Even he would say his record in domestic 50-over competition is not brilliant compared to some of the other guys but certainly he is a very exciting cricketer and very dangerous".

The release is being rigorously controlled before it opens the New York film festival later this month, but one critic on the selection committee has called it "big, brash and brilliant" and compared it to All The President's Men, while Rolling Stone magazine critic Peter Travers has hailed it in a tweet as "the movie of the year that also brilliantly defines the decade".

The app, "Weed Firm," however, looks brilliant when compared to what comes next: it sits just above yet another fairly dumb, time-waster of a game called "100 Balls," reminiscent of beer pong.

Nick Catucci of The Village Voice called the album "brilliant" and compared Blink-182 to fellow pop punk band Green Day's 2000 effort, Warning, writing, "Let it be noted, however, that Warning searches for subject matter where Blink-182 searches for meaning".

Thus, the condensed phase appears brilliant as compared to the liquid expanded phase, which shows as a dark background.

One of the disconcerting features in Coetzee's writing is the combination of a high degree of philosophical sophistication with some idiosyncratic, not to say barking, ideas: I was reminded of Elizabeth Costello, in which the heroine gives a brilliant speech comparing industrial farming with the Holocaust.

In a brilliant passage he compared the Brussels Eurocracy with the "enlightened despotisms" of the 18th century under Frederick II of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria, with their "ideal of efficient, universal administration, shorn of particularisms and driven by rational calculation and the rule of law".

"Very few innately brilliant people succeed, compared to the people who just put in the time and effort".

It was described by music critics as "brilliant", who also compared it to her single "Justify My Love" (1990).