Sentence examples for less brilliantly from inspiring English sources

Perhaps my plumage would shine less brilliantly than it does at this moment.

He also, less brilliantly, sent Kim Philby, whom he had known at Cambridge, to string for the paper from Beirut, until the spy's mask fell off and he fled to the Soviet Union.In 1963, after a bit of an upheaval at The Economist, he went off to be Washington correspondent and, from then on, everything fell into place.

For Obama, America is still the exceptional country, the light on the hill, though we may shine less brilliantly today.

It is not that the blacks are any less bright; some perform brilliantly.

Or ask Sarah Silverman, whose mock before-and-after quickie-abortion photographs, which accompany the tweet below, went over less than brilliantly.

"Even if they were less than brilliantly competent," he said, that is insufficient reason to find that the federal interest was not served.

During his first term, he did, if belatedly, work hard to win congressional support for the NAFTA treaty; his men did, if less than brilliantly at first, prepare the Miami summit.

But the vision is no less terrifying for having been brilliantly presented.

His business instincts have often been brilliantly daring, based less on rigorous analysis than on gut.

Mr. Katt, as usual, is scarily brilliant playing an actor less smart than himself, and brilliantly scary playing a loose-jointed, neurotic hipster Hitler onstage.

Ms. Stonikas faints brilliantly; Ms. Slywotzky less so.