"It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!" What a brilliant sentence that is!
Ronald Reagan summed up the economic philosophy of the 1970s in one brilliant sentence: "If it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; and if it stops moving, subsidize it".
When you're online, you don't have to craft a brilliant sentence.
Chesterton is an easy writer to love — a brilliant sentence-maker, a humorist, a journalist of endless appetite and invention.
This is a book of brilliant sentences, brilliant paragraphs, brilliant chapters.
"Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones," one character reminds another, and Cardenas's gift is to show, through long, brilliant sentences, the charm of inaction and delinquency.
So, since I'm stubborn, I put everything aside and try to find a few brilliant sentences that clearly express the meaning of the pages I've accumulated in the meantime.
Our contemporary understanding of Anglo-American literary modernism, from The Waste Land forwards, is shaped by Connolly's quotable and brilliant sentences about the books and writers of his time.
Finely intelligent, often superbly written, with flashingly brilliant sentences, "The Girls" is also a symptomatic product not of the sixties but of our own age: a nicely paced literary-commercial début whose brilliant style, in the end, seems to restrict its reach and depth.
The brilliant first sentence of the novel packs his sense of abandonment into 13 poignant words: "Fin's funeral suit was a year old, worn three times, already too small".
After playing a Sonic Youth track, he defined what's distinctive about rock, rather than classical, music, and it was a brilliant few sentences.
