Sentence examples for brilliant survey from inspiring English sources
No surprise, then, that the meat of his book should consist of a brilliant survey of cartography in the early modern period, when Europeans began to explore entire continents unsuspected by Ptolemy, and maps bore vivid witness to the geopolitical and commercial upheavals unleashed in their wake.
That said, Goldschmidt's book is a brilliant survey of ecophenotypic variation by a first-rate laboratory geneticist and field biologist, and it should be read closely rather than dismissed.
And it retains those qualities in "Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art," a brilliant little survey of sacramental imagery that winds through a gallery at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Brilliant, brilliant campaigners.
At the height of the cold war, in his brilliant and sardonic survey of American political thought, "The Liberal Tradition in America," Louis Hartz observed that despite its deepened worldwide involvement, the United States was becoming more isolated intellectually.
That same year, the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, included him in its " 'Brilliant!' New Art from London" survey.
This is a brilliant, engagingly written, deeply researched survey – and "spot the error" must be one of the least rewarding responses to it.
A brilliant, sometimes laugh-out-loud survey of modern life and modern love as faced by teens and twenty-somethings, couched in raps of wry intelligence and sly imagination.
(Cotter) ★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens' (through Jan . 27 The first in-depth survey of the brilliant artistry and engineering of Abraham and David Roentgen, a father-and-son team of genius German cabinetmakers, features roll-top desks, writing tables, chairs and clocks.
(Johnson) ★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens' (closes on Sunday) The first in-depth survey of the brilliant artistry and engineering of Abraham and David Roentgen, a father-and-son team of genius German cabinetmakers, features roll-top desks, writing tables, chairs and clocks.
