Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer, poet and intellectual bully, is the main character of Beryl Bainbridge's new novel, "According to Queeney," and he shambles through these acid-laced pages like a behemoth, sloppy, brilliant and sad.
"Danko/Manuel," a tribute to the brilliant careers and sad ends of the Band's bassist and pianist, respectively, is simply poignant.
The river was hot and wild; sad, brilliant, remote; closed in by canyon walls, desert banks, snakes and flash floods; on one side Texas, the other Mexico.
He dislikes Bret Harte, whom he dismisses as "always bright but never brilliant"; offers a sad portrait of an aged and infirm Harriet Beecher Stowe; and lavishly praises his friend William Dean Howells.
Two films on Lance Armstrong came out this year and Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story pips The Armstrong Lie as the better of the pair but the best two-wheel movie is the brilliant and truly sad story of Marco Pantani, Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist.
A fracturing punctuation to a brilliant career a paralyzingly sad end that re-contextualizes the source of the subterranean depths and supernatural highs that his voice channeled.
A sad but brilliant commentary on the human condition.
The outcome was as brilliant as it was sad — and the battle is the right one to engage in.
Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie The Master is brilliant, mysterious and unbearably sad, in approximately that narrative order.
It sounds corny but is actually the opposite: wise, witty, perceptive and sad, a brilliant meditation on the tragic gap between youthful aspiration and middle-aged compromises.
