It was one of the early winners of the Roald Dahl funny prize, a brilliant award conceived and established by Michael Rosen during his time as children's laureate and first awarded in 2008.
There is a brilliant literary prize scene which was painfully familiar to me.
Here he was – a brilliant, Nobel-prize-winning physicist – and it was somehow important for him to keep trying to convince a couple of Princeton sophomores that his controversial theories were correct.
And what is strange is that this disappointing movie is written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the brilliant and prize-garlanded author of stage and screen who made it look like he didn't need to try at all.
(Before the 1930s, the Washington-based board was less important, and the New York Fed was arguably the most powerful element of the system; see Liaquat Ahamed's brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning history of that period, "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World").
Ball focuses on Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg and Peter Debye, all brilliant, and Nobel prize winners (even though the Nazis officially boycotted the prize from 1935).
"It's the reality that Mother didn't believe". The Land of the Sweets, with its brilliant dancing, is her prize, and ours.
Is it true that you lost your job the day before you won the Bruntwood Prize for Brilliant Adventures?
The peril of even fine minds thinking too narrowly, Mr. Schwartz says, was illustrated by the giant hedge fund Long-Term Capital Manearlynt, whicollapsed collapsed in 1998 because its brilliant traders and Nobel prize-winning economists did not foresee events beyond their risk models.
She grew up to study medicine — she was a brilliant student and won many prizes.
