Sentence examples for cool brilliance from inspiring English sources

He won early fame as a piano virtuoso, enrapturing crowds with his cool brilliance and irritating critics with his willful reconfigurations of canonical works.

But Mr. Matsuev, wielding his athletic virtuosity and steely power, gave a chiseled, hard-driving yet transparent performance, matched in character and cool brilliance by Mr. Gergiev and the orchestra.

Sontag dismissed Leni Reifenstahl in 1975, after the photographer had put in decades of work on her rehabilitation - all of which were ruined by the cool brilliance of Sontag's analysis of the allure of fascism.

"Fireworks," Stravinsky's four-minute 1908 warm-up to "The Firebird," began the program, and the cool brilliance of the playing was typical of Mr. Dutoit's work with this commendable orchestra.

But Mr. Wheeldon, who has been the resident choreographer at the New York City Ballet since 2001, met that obstacle with the cool brilliance that is almost expected of him these days.

It was a sensation when it was published in 1963 — its cool, lapidary brilliance an antidote to the physical mayhem and moral certainty of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

And even in the Handel and Bach pieces, which emphasize a cool, technical brilliance of clear sound and rapid fingerwork, there was always the sense of breath supporting the instrument, the human quality that underlies the organ's particular voice.

Responding to the fascinatingly changing colors of the music's theme-and-variations structure, the choreography is formal, sophisticated, cool, with passages of brilliance for groups of male dancers and some male-female duets that occasionally disclose a surprisingly tender expansiveness.

The goal in the 64th minute was a flash of brilliance from the attacking midfielder that was cool, calm and a tease of good things to come.

"Martin's sureness of phrasing is one of the great pleasures of her recent fiction.... Her cool, remote voice has mellowed, and her competence has kindled into brilliance".

Goal of the tournament Strong claims from Dimitri Payet and Xherdan Shaqiri but for sheer chutzpah and game-changing brilliance it has to be Hal Robson-Kanu's Cruyff turn and cool finish that left Thomas Meunier completely bamboozled.