Finally, Romesh Gunesekera's Heaven's Edge (Bloomsbury) is his best book so far - brilliant, as ever, on atmosphere, but this quest for love and the past set in a fallen paradise also has a gripping plot and startling denouement.
Let its translator be far from brilliant".
That still beat the S&P 500, which shed 4%, but was far from brilliant.
There are people in the company who are far more brilliant than I am.
What he's done so far is brilliant, but he's only had five races in his life.
Charles Darwin was a placid, half-educated, wealthy country boy--a far from brilliant young man--who became the most radical and disruptive thinker of the 19th century.
But "Petrouchka" may have served as a germ for "Eh Joe," which is a far more brilliant and harrowing, if stranger, work.
But on Friday night in Game 1 of this Western Conference finals, Garnett, the league's most valuable player, was far from brilliant.
Ms. Taylor is almost the complete opposite of Ms. Scheller: she's far less brilliant or precise, and yet there's an intensity in her very nervous system that can radiate right through to her hands and feet.
A quarter of the artists selected for the Fourth Plinth, situated in the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square, were female, as Kira Cochrane writes today "far from brilliant, but much better than those other statistics for public art".
Forty years ago, in my short and far from brilliant teaching career, I faced a class of south Wales boys where one in three was a Jones, and half of those was a Ken Jones.
