Sentence examples for inventive brilliance from inspiring English sources
It's an attractive work set to an attractive score by David Lang, and it has flashes of inventive brilliance.
By the same token, several vignettes harbour a satisfying air of menace but, when not reading like fragments lifted from the work of Don Paterson, tend to suffer in comparison with the inventive brilliance of those from Polley's earlier books.
The first of them, Touch of Evil (1958), finds Welles recapturing his inventive brilliance as a filmmaker and turning in one of his finest performances as corrupt border cop Hank Quinlan, a "slag-heap of iniquity", in Callow's gamey phrase.
Well, my boy, it works like this: A brilliant programmer studies the task at hand, figures out the requirements for the program, then enters into a state of inventive brilliance and comes up with a design to solve the problem (using a pencil, of course), with algorithms and data structures all neatly separated into modules with the appropriate user interface thrown in.
As the one piece of music went on and on -- Glover dancing with his usual inventive brilliance -- the static nature of the evening wore on you.
That said, hints of Louie's later brilliance – its highly inventive second season and even better third outing have already aired in the US – pop up now and again in these opening six episodes.
Director Joe Hill-Gibbins, taking his lead from Marlowe, has opted to live dangerously and offers us a tirelessly inventive, anachronistic, multitasking production that alternates between brilliance and overkill.
In both private and public scenes – on the one hand Faust's lonely contemplations, or the deserted Marguerite's melancholy, and on the other the flamboyant bellicosity of the Hungarian March or the terrifying headlong dash of the Ride to the Abyss – the quirky brilliance of the composer's gestures and their endlessly inventive colouristic range seemed toned down.
THE BRILLIANCE OF THE MOON, by Lian Hearn (Riverhead, $24.95), is a worthy conclusion to an inventive trilogy that the pseudonymous author calls "Tales of the Otori"; all three volumes are set in an imaginary medieval Japan where some people, including the hero, Takeo, are capable of truly mind-bending powers.
The brilliance of this effect leads me to believe that Doyle, who won a Tony for his chillingly inventive staging of "Sweeney Todd," was tempted into this rather outlandish project by his ears rather than his common sense.
