For much of last season, it was the headstrong freelancing of Westbrook that, while at times brilliant, risked compromising the team's chemistry.
Roy took us on from the word go and he was taking brilliant, calculated risks.
When left to their own brilliant and risk-taking devices, these unique individuals see the recent U.S. fall from grace as an opportunity to rebuild what was lost somewhere between the 9/11 tragedy and the crash of '08.
As in, how can he ask our brilliant pilots to risk their lives in a war with no exit strategy if he personally has never fired a supersonic missile at a moving target?
A group of British scientists interviewed as part of the anniversary events reflected on the significance of the Moon landing: It was carried out in a technically brilliant way with risks taken ... that would be inconceivable in the risk-averse world of today .
"The National Theatre has had a brilliant era, taking risks such as Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Was it a brilliant bit of risk-taking and some routine corporate legerdemain, or the biggest fraud in California history?
Other cable dramas, however ambitious, fuel themselves on the familiar story satisfactions of brilliant iconoclasts taking risks: cops, mobsters, surgeons, spies.
He convinced Steve Bannon that he was going to win, and after he won, he convinced Bannon that his work as a brilliant political strategist risked being left on the dustbin of history unless a journalist was allowed to come in, record quotes and dates and facts and events, and then lionize Bannon in a book that would forever record his activities for history to remember.
When the director is brilliant, there's no risk.
