In Chicago, the sound he got was tense, brilliant and hard.
The Twelve is a brilliant thriller: unbearably tense, stomach-churningly frightening.
For a fuller version of that terminal pensée, turn to his essay on Larkin in his collection "Arguably": "Without that synthesis of gloom and angst we could never have had his 'Aubade,' a waking meditation on extinction that unstrenuously contrives a tense, brilliant counterpoise between the stoic philosophy of Lucretius and David Hume, and his own frank terror of oblivion".
The narrative was brilliant, quick, fast paced, tense and forever reflecting our sarcastic, gutsy heroine in this novel; Wick Tate.
It was unlike the tense and brilliant match that Cilic and Federer played in the semifinals at the 2014 U.S. Open, or the tight contest between the two in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon last year, when Cilic held match points but Federer went on to win.
This terrific film is actually tense, twisty and brilliant.
It's a brilliant film, as brain-bleedingly tense as you'd expect from a film directed by Paul Greengrass and Hanks is utterly fantastic in it, harrowing, heartbreaking and, as usual, deeply human.
Jesse Gould's brilliant Out of Work sounds as tense and relentless as the daily struggle the lyrics depict.
Agamben deftly considers the historical and philosophical implications of this power, offering a brilliant consideration of 'life' and its tense relation to normativity.
He was a kind, trustworthy, caring young man; not to mention brilliant at de-knotting her notoriously tense body.
