Sentence examples for certain brilliance from inspiring English sources

He wanted a certain brilliance in the sound, and he liked to give us extremely difficult music.

"He has a certain brilliance," said Steven Simon, a counterterrorism expert at the RAND Corporation who worked with Mr. Clarke in the Clinton White House.

Yes, many of the machinations were Machiavellian, but there was a certain brilliance to some of the moves, as in a chess game masterfully played.

Macdonald simply took for granted the fact that membership in a community conferred on him a certain accredited brilliance.

Handsome, affable, charming, and possessed of a certain superficial brilliance, Pierce made many friends in Congress, but his career there was otherwise undistinguished.

Johnny Rotten provided a certain precocious brilliance, and I related to those for Mozart". O'Brien previously made headlines by creating a portrait of Beethoven for the cover of Gramophone magazine, which was inspired by U2 singer Bono.

But it does take a certain kind of brilliance to mine the comic absurdities in a continuing news story featuring such sobering phenomena as a grotesque tyrant, the wholesale loss of human life and a president even his political opponents are afraid to take on.

"In our times it was always up to the brilliance of certain individual players.

What he produces, exhausting and ultimately bewildering as it is, is not without a certain visual and conceptual brilliance, or, thankfully, a sense of humor.

The winners were the former Sears shareholders who decided to take the company's money and invest in some other company, perhaps one run by a boss who was less certain of his own brilliance.

Foursomes doesn't immediately seem like Watson's forte but his propensity for moments of astonishing brilliance – a certain play‑off shot at the Masters is a case in point – renders him a worthy team member.