Sentence examples for brilliant gestures from inspiring English sources

It has been a long time, however, since corporate architects were capable of such brilliant gestures.

The film reserves its most brilliant gestures for the concluding scenes, which are genuinely disquieting, moving and -- hardest to achieve -- completely consistent with what has passed before.

And Mona elevates it with one brilliant gesture.

Nelson Mandela kept a copy of the poem on him while in prison to keep his spirits up, and in this glassy-eyed movie version of the 1995 Rugby World Cup campaign – in which President Mandela sensationally backed the Springboks, as a brilliant gesture of reconciliation with white South Africans generally – the president gives a copy to the rugby captain François Pienaar.

In an absolutely brilliant gesture, newswire photographer Jason Reed of Reuters offered this visual commentary, and last word on the embarrassment in Annapolis.... Just grand.

Re "A Nazi Violin Still Keeps Its Secrets" (Arts & Leisure, Sept. 23): The gift of a Stradivarius from the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, to a Japanese concert violinist, Nejiko Suwa, was a brilliant propaganda gesture indeed.

One of Hytner's first actions was to launch the Travelex £10 ticket scheme (now risen to £12) which meant a third of the Olivier's seats were available for the price of a cinema ticket: a brilliant pragamtic gesture that meant huge swaths of the audience for Hytner's 2003 Henry V were NT virgins.

PART of what makes Christopher Rouse's music so much fun is that beneath its veneer of fluid gestures and brilliant orchestration lies a subversive and sometimes perverse sense of humor.

"Brilliant, what a nice gesture.

"What can be said for certain is that serious art music could never be written by a child," argued critic and novelist Philip Hensher in 2007, upon hearing Symphony no 5 by Jay Greenberg, the Juilliard-educated prodigy who was then aged 15. "The only things that are left for even the most brilliant of them are reheated gestures from a museum".

Still, it was an impassioned performance, and, as James Reston of the Times rated it, a "brilliant" one, "with every word, gesture, expression and pause in harmony".