Sentence examples for brilliant old from inspiring English sources

His stand-off with Ingram was brilliant: "Old man?" indeed.

One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt.

The Castle and Gulliver's are brilliant "old bloke" pubs with great jukeboxes and where they serve pickled eggs.

I knew Rebecca West, since she was a friend and neighbour of my parents in Sussex, and was very fond of her; all the same, it occurred to me that she was possibly one of the brilliant old ladies who felt threatened by a brilliant young one in the shape of Maggie Drabble.

"He's a brilliant old horse, last year he was wrong, this year he's better than ever.

Why fix what isn't broken, when you could just smash the classics through a magic graphicsinator, allowing us all to enjoy that brilliant old gameplay alongside whizzy new visuals?

Some Derby winners do become brilliant older horses.

A professor, a brilliant older student, a girl.

"Susan's like a brilliant older sister," says writer and friend Darryl Pinckney.

Andy intuited her pain, but thought that it must be because he played so badly compared with his brilliant older brother.

In the blurb for Casino Royale he wrote that winning the Eton athletics prize two years running had only once been equalled "presumably by another second son trying to compensate for a brilliant older brother".