In the aftermath of be-bop, the music falls from grace, losing in popularity and cultural influence whatever it may have gained in brilliance and intensity.
She gained her brilliance from experience as a former Miss Teen Texas USA, the answer earning her a spot in the Top 15 on pageant night.
The second tip is to wow this person with a flash of IT brilliance — gain a little geek cred.
And he was just 26 when, as the president's secretary, he sat beside the bed of the dying Abraham Lincoln.As a thinker, talker and writer, Hay's brilliance gained him Lincoln's confidence and earned him a post at the president's elbow.
When we are in soul consciousness, we experience our brilliance and gain the greatest fulfillment by being in service to others.
The playing was splendidly committed throughout, as it was in the preceding Mozart, which I caught enough of (a more mundane kind of lateness led to my missing the first movement) to be lifted by its chattering brilliance and to gain a general sense of the concert which, for all its morbid binding, was music-making at its most invigorating.
The reputation for brilliance which Marshall gained at the Staff School has not been an unmixed advantage, for some oldsters still insist that he is "a staff type and not a command type," too cerebral to be a really good Chief.
William Shawn, a man as reserved, in his way, as Si Newhouse, had been its editor since 1952, and had long since gained a reputation for editorial brilliance and uncommon sympathy with his writers and artists, but he was nearing the end of his eighth decade, and there was no plan for the magazine's editorial future.
He transfers the major responsibility of education from the school to everyday life: 'Wonderful brilliance may be gained for human judgment by getting to know men'.[20] The priority given to the formation of judgment and character strongly opposes the craving for a powerful memory during his time.
After a stint with a theatrical costume company he went to design school and quickly gained a reputation for distinctively dark, louche brilliance.
