Sentence examples for brilliant gamble from inspiring English sources

It may turn out to be a brilliant gamble.

Filming the story over 12 years was a bold and brilliant gamble.

It was quite simply a brilliant gamble that paid off handsomely.

Mr. Wright's brilliant gamble is to arrive at this level of emotional authenticity by way of self-conscious artifice.

For a while the plan to tear up Heidrick & Struggles' 46-year-old partnership agreement and take the company public looked like a brilliant gamble.

But if I'm right, then Nic Pizzolatto took a serious -- and brilliant -- artistic gamble in the narrative arc of his screenplay, a wager calculated on a deep dark propensity in the American psyche.

The other bon viveur is Charles II, about whom Jenny Uglow has written a classically brilliant biography, A Gambling Man (Faber, £25).

Innovative tycoons -- whether of the Rockefeller, Hearst, Turner or Gates varieties -- tend to be as reckless as they are brilliant, taking huge gambles that are pursued with a zeal that borders on the insane.

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.

Not a series of brilliant insights or bold gambles, but a fanatical attention to detail.

It's been said that the individual who invented gambling was brilliant but that whoever invented the chip was a genius.