It is a contemporary pieta, and Birkin's show is a brilliant forcefield of moral enquiry.
And finally – loyalty aside – my sister Lucy Kellaway's novel In Office Hours (Fig Tree) is brilliant; a funny moral tale about office affairs.
His brilliant exposition and moral teaching have the note of universality; his words strike the reader today as forcefully as ever, and his humorous sallies are as pungent as when they provoked laughter in the congregations of Antioch and Constantinople.
And yet – startlingly – Parade's End (BBC2, 9pm, Friday), adapted by Stoppard from Ford Maddox Ford's quartet of novels, marks the first time the playwright has written a script directly for BBC television since 1977, when Professional Foul, his brilliant comedy about moral philosophers and England footballers sharing the same hotel in Prague, won a Bafta award.
Abby's a brilliant heroine; self-possessed, moral and permanently on the verge of major trouble.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukHERE are a few descriptions of Johnny Cash: "brilliant songwriter" (Keith Richards), "the moral compass of country music" (Patti Smith), a "blessing of my life" and a "gifted artist" (Kris Kristofferson).
Brouwer seems to have been an independent and brilliant man of high moral standards, but with an exaggerated sense of justice, making him at times pugnacious.
Renowned as a "brilliant castigator of modern morals," he excelled at dramatizing the exposure of lies and secrets, the duplicities of class and organized religion.
He was, in short, a brilliant psychologist, but also a moral philosopher in the fullest sense of the word.
