Sentence examples for hard brilliant from inspiring English sources

It forms red to reddish brown, hard, brilliant metallic, slender crystals, often completely surrounded by other minerals.

Euxenite, complex oxide mineral, a niobate titanate that forms hard, brilliant black crystals and masses in granite pegmatites and associated detrital deposits.

His austere imagination soberly developed a few symbols of the human condition and condensed them to achieve what he called a "hard, brilliant diamond".

It is found as hard, brilliant crystals of tetragonal symmetry and various colours in veins in igneous and metamorphic rocks and commonly in placer deposits of detritus.

I liked his approach with its lack of hard brilliant sound; a glassy clear sound a lot of pianists employ when they play Ravel.

But after plowing through it in two days of being steadily blindsided by Quoyle's punishing, emotional misadventures in small-town Newfoundland and by the hard, brilliant writing itself—I began to pay attention.

Marx is described as "a man-child," whose mind is "as hard and brilliant as a diamond".

Dr. Silber, who transformed Boston into a university of national prominence, and Mr. Goldin are described by people who know them in strikingly similar terms like hard charging, brilliant, autocratic, demanding, courageous, controlling and moralistic.

The best results of this process (e.g., an 18th-century commode attributed to René Dubois) were never as hard and brilliant as real Oriental lacquer, but they provided an admirable substitute; on occasions it is not easy to distinguish them, especially when East Asian designs were imitated.

In fact, she was: a well-regarded biographer of Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Kilgallen who, around 1990, was about to enter what "a court officer would later describe... as a 'rough patch.' " She was drinking and spending too much, and romancing too hard ("a brilliant, beautiful bartender named Elaine").

And, in my biased opinion, the ad, "The Truth Is Hard," is brilliant.