Ms. Middlebrook writes that Plath knew that her collection "Ariel," which Hughes published after her death, "would be read by insiders as a brilliant declaration of independence from the man who had humiliated her".
Margaret Chase Smith, a senator from Maine, the grand old dame of the Republican party, wore a rose every day, including on the first of June in 1950 when she gave the brave, brilliant "Declaration of Conscience" speech she is best know for, denouncing her fellow Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The prime minister's commitment to bringing Post Office banking into the heart of communities, and to giving the Post Office a much greater role in the economy, is a brilliant and simple declaration that this government will protect the public realm, that community matters, that localism matters and that it wants to offer diversity within our astonishingly monolithic retail banking system.
Many years before, in The Art of Fiction, a brilliant, almost polemical declaration on behalf of the novel as an art form, he had written "A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like every other organism, and in proportion as it lives will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of each of the other parts".
I thought Graeme Smith's declaration was brilliant.
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Did we select one of the brilliant scholars who crafted the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence as our first president?
In her declaration, Ms. Olson called her two principal lawyers "brilliant," so it seemed unlikely she would complain of poor representation.
Perhaps there's still hope: As of Monday, her Twitter bio still includes the declaration, "Actress, mom, wife of the amazing, brilliant, genius @RobinThicke!" Follow Christie D'Zurilla on Twitter @theCDZ and Google+.
He just looked solemn, perhaps reflecting on the majesty of the great democratic experiment, and said: "I happen to believe that the Constitution was not just brilliant, but that it was inspired, and so was the Declaration of Independence".
