Sentence examples for never brilliant from inspiring English sources

As Frankie's father, Alfie, a promising but never brilliant academic, succumbs to dementia, her mother, Sylvia, reflects on their life together and its mismatch with her youthful expectations.

He dislikes Bret Harte, whom he dismisses as "always bright but never brilliant"; offers a sad portrait of an aged and infirm Harriet Beecher Stowe; and lavishly praises his friend William Dean Howells.

A gem: "On his firm Stuart Hall International Travel: 'I've never been brilliant in business.

The technique is never more brilliant than in "Lost in Translation," the third poem about the crucial years of the late nineteen-thirties.

Never a brilliant student but always a dogged worker, Gonzales attended Rice University and then earned a law degree from Harvard.

The survivors, the more famous Martin Munkasci, Josef Sudek, and Hannah Höch, were never more brilliant than in those restless, uncertain years.

A levels were never a brilliant method for screening people, and grade inflation has made them worse, because too many pupils now get excellent results.

"Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men," an article published in the 1920's in the American magazine, is a typical specimen of an earlier era.

But until we stop pretending that getting high is inherently bad – that drugs can never be brilliant, can never enhance human experience for the better – how can we properly deal with people whose lives have been made worse by drugs?

Otherwise, it could never meet the brilliant oddness of Katharine Hepburn.

By some estimates, up to 80% of all strategies — however brilliant — never generate their intended results.