Many anthologies had no women, others had just two or three female writers, and invariably these were the brilliant troika (before that word meant something else in contemporary Ireland) of Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien and Elizabeth Bowen.
Yet people who know him well say he still tells new acquaintances that he is truly honored to meet them, cheerfully doling out superlatives like "first-class," "amazing" and "brilliant". He invariably tells the story of his own success as a parable about luck and perseverance, never about talent.
It is a brilliant event, invariably.
Clive's instincts were invariably maverick, his ideas sometimes brilliant; his personality indomitable.
This is a brilliant sport, one that invariably surprises the novice spectator not just with its refined skill levels – the net-fluttering field goal, the veering dribble – but also with its sheer concussive physicality.
This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the point where critical issues and methods intersect or collide.
Auties invariably make good telly because they are brilliant at sums or art or music.
Despite brilliant support from her employers, there invariably seems to be more than she bargains for when she has to check the toilets.
But this is because it invariably leads to the country's most famous and brilliant man: Muttiah Muralitharan.Mr Muralitharan, or "Murali", as he is known, is one of only three Tamil cricketers to have represented Sri Lanka.
Over the years, this has become settled law in California: lawsuits aimed at preventing, say, a brilliant software engineer from joining a competitor have invariably failed.
Though exceptionally well served by a succession of brilliant ministers, Henry turned upon them all; those he elevated, he invariably cast down again.
