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Discover LudwigThe phrase "brilliant fool" is a grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is an oxymoron, a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms to create a unique effect. You can use the phrase "brilliant fool" to describe someone who is intellectually gifted but lacks common sense or makes foolish decisions. It can also be used to describe a person who is highly intelligent but also displays foolish or reckless behavior. Example: "John was a brilliant fool, his IQ off the charts but he constantly made reckless decisions that put him in danger."
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He was a brilliant Fool to Olivier's Lear, but that was in 1946.
I'm simply a brilliant fool, brilliant and idiotic, and there it is.
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In her brilliant book, Unholy Fools, which deals with "wits, comics, disturbers of the peace", Gilliatt devotes a whole section to farce, writing: "the world of archetypes that … Travers creates, the browbeaten husbands and dithering fiances and suspicious critical matriarchs called Bone or Twine, is mysteriously ripe and timeless".
Much criticism has been published regarding the TOMS model and the efficiency of their mission, but I can't deny that their brilliant marketing has fooled many of us into thinking we are using our purchasing power for good.
These monstrous star performances, the one a fond farewell to the old Aldwych farce traditions (aided and abetted by the brilliant Michael Williams, the RSC Fool to his Lear), the other an extravagant adieu to the Victorian stage, still revealed Sinden at the peak of his powers.
Fools! Fools!
The simple, yet brilliant concept for "Dream" fools viewers into thinking the flashing retro typographies are done digitally.
"O, brilliant kids, I was a fool just like you.
"I think she's brilliant; she constantly makes a fool out of May in the Commons.
For all the charm of Dominic Sandbrook's book, with its minute anatomy of social forms and brilliant parade of charlatans and fools, it is hard not to feel that somehow time has not been well used.
Prince Buster really was nobody's fool and had a brilliant sense of humour.
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