Having displayed his brilliance in school, he was ranked fourth on the admissions list of the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1814.
I would have displayed more brilliance, used more sarcasm, I could have revealed my ideas openly instead of having to resort to camouflage".
Like pistachios or candied violets, it displays a brilliance that shamelessly grabs your attention.
Now, against the Los Angeles Lakers, he will need to display such brilliance every time he takes the floor.
Speirs liked to quote Tadao Ando, the Japanese disciple of Le Corbusier, saying "light displays its brilliance only against a backdrop of darkness".
It was about the conversational moves made possible by his major at the City College of New York: Geology allowed me to display my brilliance to my non-college friends.
Greenblatt's story of the unleashing of the pleasure principle on the European world after the discovery of Lucretius conveys his own passion for discovery, and displays his brilliance as a storyteller.
A relative called one morning while Jacob was in the shower but Mrs. Lawrence, determined to have her son display his brilliance, took a cordless phone, pushed open the shower curtain and asked him to repeat what he had learned the previous day.
Though Drummond -- a technology business writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune -- keeps telling us his protagonists are brilliant without actually finding a way to display that brilliance in action, he does compile telling little details of software-developer psychology: two of the so-called Beastie Boys, for instance, find their common ground in "a mutual loathing of people in general".
The benefit is that he knows an opportunity when he sees one, or, in this case, helps to create one: his Game 4 scuffle with Draymond Green weirdly focussed, not for the first time in Green's case, around the groin led to a suspension, which created the space necessary for both of Cleveland's stars to display their brilliance.
