Sentence examples for if not brilliant from inspiring English sources

"She was fluent, if not brilliant, on foreign policy.

What kinds of sales are needed for these two deals to be successful, if not brilliant?

A dish of pra raam (chicken with spinach in a thick, sweet peanut sauce) was adequate if not brilliant.

An obituary from a Toronto paper was reprinted, with a brief outline of a career that seemed to have been adequate to support her, if not brilliant.

They're a telegenic if not brilliant group, drawn from the party-oriented pool of reality contestants rather than the churchy pool.

The calibre of the line-up looks decent if not brilliant for a race won twice in recent years by steeplechasing star Denman (2007, 2009) en route to Cheltenham Gold Cup heroics.

If you are a respectable but not brilliant investor you ought to be able to earn 5% on your portfolio, net of income taxes and allowance for inflation.

A good goal, if not a brilliant one, but that wasn't really the point.

Salesmen, and Trump is nothing if not a brilliant salesman, specialize in simulated intimacy rather than the real thing.

The film is nothing if not a brilliant showcase for the colorist and designer Mary Blair, one of the great practitioners of midcentury modernism.

The Mamba wasn't wholly incompatible with the Maestro — Irving is nothing if not a brilliant soloist — but the two pronouncements struck a slightly discordant note.