Sentence examples for difficult brilliant from inspiring English sources

Terry Gross encourages authors to be their fascinating, conflicted, emotional, charming, difficult, brilliant selves.

François-Michel Messud, my father-in-law, was a complicated, difficult, brilliant man.

She was warm, difficult, brilliant, and not afraid to defend her prejudices.

Indeed, she saw her main achievement as supporting, reassuring, and enabling her difficult, brilliant partner to blossom.

But what will happen when Mr. Jobs's pipeline is no longer full, and when his difficult, brilliant, charismatic, future-shaping personality is no longer the face of Apple?

Taking its title from the proverb "the children of lovers are orphans", this memoir sees the author recall her difficult, brilliant, conflicted father, William Golding, as he changed from a poor schoolteacher to a Nobel prize-winning novelist.

Even without that deal, the Saturn was a fascinating, difficult and brilliant machine.

He compared this to the trials of working with Mingus, the celebrated bassist and composer who was famously eccentric and difficult — but brilliant.

Blair was unhappy with Campbell because he believed that Brown was a difficult but brilliant strategist who was crucial to the success of the government.

"Siamese" is a difficult and brilliant book, like one of those skulls inscribed "As I am now, so shall you be" that a death-besotted Romantic might have kept by his bedside.

Throughout these examinations, most of which are both difficult and brilliant, there are also hints of the danger that lies latent in nostalgia, for how can the past be sought without the present being overturned?