Sentence examples for brilliant king from inspiring English sources

RICHARD MAXWELL, the reigning (and often brilliant) king of enervation in experimental theater, has applied his hypnotic, affectingly affectless technique to tales of espionage, violent crime and boxing in productions that turn men of action into clich?umbling sleepwalkers.

Instead she focused on the human characteristics: she believes Henry II was a brilliant king but a bad father.

[The defense 21.Rh1 is self-mating after 21...Qh3+ 22.Kg1 Ng5 23.f4 gxf3 threatening to win with 24...Ne4; and after 24.Rf1 Qg4+!! 25.Kf2 (25.Nxg4 Nh3 mate). 25...Qh4+ 26.Kg1 Nh3 mate.] 21...Qxh2 22.Ke2 Pachman gave his move two exclamation points, suggesting that his brilliant king's run beats the attack.

But maybe Tim Pigott-Smith's affectionate portrayal of the heir, in Mike Bartlett's brilliant King Charles III, will finally set the Prince of Wales, too, on the road to dramatic redemption.

Walsh had always been expected to stay loyal to Kauto Star, the brilliant King George VI Chase winner, at Cheltenham, but as Nicholls' number one jockey, might have hoped to ride ­Denman at Newbury before making a final decision.

But we had seen their brilliant King Lear last year, and now they were doing Richard III, for donations, mind you -- suggested $10 each -- and we decided to go for it.

I hugely enjoyed Dan Jones on The Plantagenets (HarperPress £25), stonking narrrative history told with pace, wit and scholarship about the bloody dynasty that produced some of England's most brilliant, brutal kings.

It stars Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant philosopher-king of the secret society of scientists and engineers who were plucked from academia and assembled on a New Mexico mesa during World War II and told to make a bomb before the Germans did — a man as sung by Mr. Finley equally in love with the Bomb and his own inscrutability.

Persuasive in his presumed lunacy, psychotic-seeming after he reveals that he knows he's not the king, brilliant in his verbal bombardiering of those who would underestimate him, he is the very embodiment of a perceptible but unknowable threat.

Of course, age is not the problem with Christopher Plummer's portrayal of the alternately brilliant and mad king (at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre), but it's possible that Plummer's accrued success is.

Today there are extreme reactions when one mentions his name: on one end of the spectrum, he's hailed as a genius comedian, brilliant screenwriter/director, and king of the nebbishes; on the other, well, some people go straight to "the pedophile who married his daughter".