Sentence examples for brilliant mixture from inspiring English sources

She was a brilliant mixture of independence, eccentricity and vulnerability.

With a brilliant mixture of threats and persuasion, Mustafa Kemal was able, therefore, to induce the assembly to abolish the sultanate (November 1, 1922).

A brilliant mixture of comedy, melancholy, nostalgia and intelligent romance, this is a must read for anyone at a loose end this summer.

I'm very much in favour of Granny, who has that brilliant mixture of comforting appearance and steely interior, as Joyce sadly found out.

There is a little-known work by him called "Lettres à un ami allemand" (Letters to a German Friend) written during the Occupation which are a brilliant mixture of history, sociology, politics and literature.

It's a brilliant mixture of intelligence and idiocy, deploying complex, evolving characters who can still occasionally sum themselves up in one line ("Insufficient funds," says Oregon, staring at a cashpoint screen. "What does that mean?").

Tulips, narcissus, hyacinths, crocus, scilla and muscari, all from the Mediterranean region, are literally crammed into brilliant mixtures on planting benches surrounded by white picket fences in two show houses, with forsythia, azalea, redbud, willow and Canary broom as additional decor.

The winner was a brilliant red mixture of vodka, watermelon liqueur, a triple sec liqueur, lime, and an optional dash of grenadine for those with an assertive sweet tooth.

A brilliant, and moving, mixture of perception and reality.

Jim McNeely's arrangement of Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing" was close to brilliant, an imaginative mixture of strict, complicated section writing and devices that destabilized the orchestra in favor of small-band heat.

I analyze individuals, from occultists to positive-thinkers, whose inner lights, depending on one's perspective, can appear eccentric, brilliant or some mixture of the two.