Sentence examples for brilliant figure from inspiring English sources

How could a brilliant figure like Mallach, once tapped by Einstein as his natural successor, have become scorned and ignored, "a burned-out star" teaching "Physics for Poets"?

It is a chaotic final chapter in the story of a bombastic figure whose out-of-control carnality has, at times, overshadowed the fact that Charney is also an old-fashioned captain of industry – an eccentric, erratic, brilliant figure – with a disconcertingly simple concept: to make humble T-shirts, jogging pants and sweatshirts seem exciting.

Indeed, even after Roller cuts through the hype, Cleopatra VII was an arrestingly brilliant figure.

A brilliant figure in a man's world, Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier (1917 95) was one of the most influential women of her generation in geography, in France and internationally, in the second half of the twentieth century, and she also earned recognition in the areas of spatial development and planning.

As a woman she stands according to the convention of the time for mother earth, and thus reveals another aspect of nature that might be lost in the brilliant figure of Allwill — the one who would be the innocent first child of it.

So no-one here is in the least bit surprised that at the key moment of potentially maximum publicity and media stress - the announcement in Stockholm - this quiet, shy, brilliant figure chose to slip beyond the reach of all cameras and calls.

The ideal of these "modern" poets was the richest possible embellishment of verses by the use of tropes, brilliant figures of speech, and far-fetched poetic conceits.

David Robey, the managing editor of BBC London 94.9FM, said: "These brilliant figures show the changes we have made to our schedule are now making a significant impact".

Many books about football tend to be breathlessly written accounts of thrilling matches won against the odds, or tell-all biographies of controversial but brilliant figures.

They were both outrageous, controversial, brilliant figures: one a self-made multimillionaire and supreme un-ashamed hedonist, the other an artist whose private sex life was as morally disgraceful as it's possible to get.

This Boeuf collected the most brilliant figures of a brilliant epoch, the best-known international painters, writers, poets, poseurs, actors, and eccentrics: English milords, dressmakers, and dilettantes; the most talk-of women; the most openheanded millionaires, and the most entertaining parasites.