Sentence examples for not very brilliant from inspiring English sources

"What I saw was not very brilliant for us," he observed.

On the recent Saturday with Candice Bergen as host, the show began with a not very brilliant takeoff of a Presidential news conference, which showed the actor impersonating President Ford bumping his head on the lectern, spilling his drinking water, and repeatedly falling down.

Ken, though brilliant – everybody says so – is not very bright.

Garden recently is not considered very brilliant.

"On the whole," he noted, "investigation of the sources of diseases has not attained very brilliant results in the hands of most state health departments, as their energies have been largely forced into other channels whether they wished it or not" (10 ).

Here, virtuosity can play its part, but for Callow that's "not just about being very brilliant.

He is not very talkative, but possesses a brilliant mind for warfare, and this is reflected in the Master Chief's abilities.

"He's a brilliant guy, but not very well liked".

Yes, he was a very brilliant comic, but not by some distance the only brilliant comic.

"Dolgen is very tough; a lot of people say he is not very lovable, but he is a brilliant negotiator and executive".

Some, he says, "are brilliant scientists but not very well equipped for a polar regime.