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In 2005 Glasgow Prestwick Airport decided to adopt the slogan "Pure Dead Brilliant", a Glaswegian colloquialism.
In a letter to her brother, whose graduation from Exeter in mid-June she couldn't attend because of lack of funds, she compared her relatively simple and straightforward life at Smith to the hyper-charged intensity of Manhattan, populated with people who seemed, to paraphrase DH Lawrence in Women in Love, like "dead brilliant galls on the tree of life".
"It's pure, dead brilliant," said Kirkbride, from Scotland.
Prince Imran went on to describe Glasgow 2014 as "the best Games ever", adding: "Glasgow - you were Pure, Dead Brilliant".
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Flappy Bird is dead - but brilliant mechanics made it fly.
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"Being dead is absolutely brilliant... just think of the benefits.
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"Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead" is a coffee-table book — big, colorful, and fun to flip through.
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