Sentence examples for brilliant description from inspiring English sources

And then there was her brilliant description of people interested in lexicography as "fusty, dry, pedantic academics".

"Gethsemane" by Elizabeth Cox is a somewhat foggy Christian parable, redeemed by a brilliant description of an airship escaping a volcanic eruption.

In Bernard Cornwell's book, Sharpe's Prey, there's a brilliant description of a gambling den in the East End where they are running a rat match.

Shortly after losing his seat as MP for Govan in 1992, the SNP's former deputy leader Jim Sillars bitterly applauded McIlvanney's image as a "brilliant description of the country", which in his view seemed incapable of asserting its own identity.

Vivian in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (the Lauren Bacall role in the 1946 film) wears a mannish tweed suit, shirt and tie, and "hand-carved walking shoes" – a brilliant description instantly summoning up a picture of highly-polished brogues.

She gave a rather brilliant description of the archetypal case: a member of the comfortably rich deciding not to give money to the poor, but to comfort himself instead with a Twitter rant calling Michael Gove a "vile, reptilian Tory scumbag", before popping off for a caramel macchiato with some pals from the BBC.

Both these volumes, containing brilliant descriptions of how Christianity spread among the rootless proletariat of the cities of Asia Minor, illustrate his preoccupation with a question, Would the intellectuals of the 19th century lead the masses toward a new enlightenment?

There are brilliant descriptions of coming of age in the 60s and 70s, subsisting on things like tripe and onions and tinned pilchard salad and encountering such exotic fare as Lurpak butter and spaghetti bolognese for the first time.

Similarly, Kennedy's brilliant descriptions of the action in the ring are studded with sharp bits of autobiographical suspense, allowing us to take pleasure, like the audience at the corrida, in the artful communication of suffering.

Barracuda is particularly good at talking about sport, from Tsiolkas's brilliant descriptions of Danny's swimming to more generally looking at the nation's obsession with sporting heroes, and how it reacts when those heroes don't live up to expectation.

Jared Diamond tells these and other stories in "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?" Diamond is a geographer at U.C.L.A. whose earlier books "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse" became best sellers, offering sweeping — and brilliant — descriptions of how geography and environment shape the destiny of nations.