Sentence examples for brilliant endeavour from inspiring English sources
The failure of Hannibal's brilliant endeavour was ultimately due to the stern determination of the Romans and to the nearly inexhaustible manpower from their Italian confederacy, which no shock of defeat or strain of war could entirely disintegrate.
Sam Ewen, writing on YouVert, rated the idea as "awesome", Michael Lieberman on Book Patrol called it a "brilliant endeavour" and the people at boingboing.net made the scheme one of their picks of the day.
It is a view, dreamy and at the same time infinitely patronising that has, like it or not, created an emotional excess and pressure on individual success that have inevitably obscured what we might have imagined was the most compelling appeal of this huge festival of frequently brilliant endeavour.
"It seems frankly unfair after our brilliant endeavours at London 2012, when we were required to produce credible performances, that we should be rewarded with precisely nothing," said British Volleyball President Richard Callicott.
And yet, as Borges also shows, such madness is the madness of art, like the brilliant, bonkers endeavour of Alfred Appel to annotate all of Nabokov's Lolita.
"There's stuff that wasn't particularly brilliant but the endeavour and the work rate was there in abundance.
I can see this being a brilliant excuse encompassing all future kitchen endeavours.
Ipswich manager Paul Jewell: "The least we deserved was a draw - not because we were brilliant on the ball but because of our endeavour.
Basing himself in west London, his only literary endeavours were a series of rather brilliant translations for John Calder, most of them done under duress at Calder's offices in Piccadilly.
Always funny, usually spot-on and never anything less than brilliant, they've routinely been the highlight of this entire endeavour.
It was also a reminder that science is an international endeavour: O'Keefe is American and many of the brilliant researchers who have trained in his London-based lab are from other countries, underlining the value of enabling people from all over the world to come to the UK for scientific training.
