Sussex director of cricket Mark Robinson: "Scarborough is a brilliant ground and a great place and you get a feel how important the festival is for English cricket.
I was convinced when I saw how he has run his campaign - a brilliant ground war.
Or perhaps the campaign's newfound willingness to mix it up with McCain in the days leading up to the Democratic Convention and its apparent return from hibernation in the last two or three days suggests that they have decided that it isn't enough to have a brilliant ground game and a brilliant Internet team but that you also have to have a coherent message and some spine.
Four Juilliard musicians — the violinists Beth Wenstrom and Liv Heym, the cellist Beiliang Zhu, and the harpsichordist Aya Hamada — played Purcell's Sonata VI in Four Parts, a brilliant ground-bass piece drawing on an ancient four-note descending motif of lament.
Buyout efforts are not welcome ("They can play it like everyone else," Persson said in 2011, after industry kingpin EA began to circle), and not long ago a collaboration with Facebook was refused on the quite brilliant grounds of Facebook's creepiness.
For much of that early period, I felt gobsmacked and starstruck in the presence of such brilliant, ground-breaking feminists; I vividly recall experiencing unbearable self-consciousness about my own lavishly feminine expressions and worrying if I was perceived as dizzy for my fondness of high heels, body-con dresses and hot pink Chanel lipstick.
We might resent a little the alienating fanciness of, say, a gorgeous overhead shot of Michael Jordan soaring for a slam, his shadow cast on a brilliant blue ground.
And this is how it'll always be – television's lower budgets and faster turnaround times make it a brilliant breeding ground for future movie stars.
NOTES: *Shunryū Suzuki's thought is widely known because of the collection of his teachings published under the title, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970), a brilliant text grounded in the author's deep understanding of Soto Zen.
With thick, lustrous brush strokes, he captures the blooms in their most dramatic moments of color -- irises in deep purple and white with tongues of yellow, white peonies with a touch of lavender, funnel-shaped freesia in white against a brilliant yellow-green ground.
It's easy to understand why Hawking's and Turing's stories are attractive, which is why the films seem so superficially similar: young brilliant scientists make ground-shaking discoveries and establish inspiring romantic relationships while battling both older authoritative establishment and their own dark futures.
