Sentence examples for brilliant pupils from inspiring English sources

The law school was revived under the jurist John Xiphilinus; the school of philosophy was chaired by Michael Psellus, whose researches into every field of knowledge earned him a reputation for omniscience and a great following of brilliant pupils.

Indeed, it was not until 1905 that Ernest H. Starling, one of the many brilliant pupils of Edward Sharpey-Schafer, the dean of British physiology during the early decades of the century, introduced the term hormone for the internal secretions of the endocrine glands.

It was not for nothing that his headmaster, Mr Stoffberg, described him as "one of the most brilliant pupils he had ever taught, and the most hard-working boy he had ever met".

Brought up by Jesuits, Gresset was a brilliant pupil and, after entering the Jesuit order in 1726, continued his education in Paris before returning to teach in Amiens and Tours.

The most brilliant pupil of Rubens and one of the great technical masters of all time, he seems to have been happy to ply his trade as a portraitist of the cavalier aristocracy in Charles I's England.

When he talks movingly of the death of a former brilliant pupil, we are reminded of the scene from Broadcast News in which William Hurt's careerist news reporter is conveniently caught crying on camera.

The family, with four children – William's elder brother Hugh is the renowned sports journalist – was "comparatively poor", but school records at Kilmarnock Academy show McIlvanney to have been "a brilliant pupil", taking classes in Latin, Greek and French, as well as other subjects.

This vision was stated with utmost severity and rigour in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), by Russell's brilliant Austrian pupil Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 1951).

Pilot schools normally admit brilliant and promising pupils from primary four and groom them for three years to gain admission into secondary schools.

She was educated at Stockport high school and studied literature at Essex University (1967-69), at both a brilliant and unruly pupil.

Or, more exactly, he's like a South African Miss Moffat, the stern Welsh schoolmistress from Emlyn Williams's "Corn Is Green," who wrestles with a brilliant but recalcitrant pupil she's determined to rescue from provincialism.