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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
*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.
In the field, he bristles under his beard, a brilliant catcher and ground fielder, setting standards for a team that needs them.
