Sentence examples for once brilliant from inspiring English sources

The once brilliant scholar found that his brain just didn't function properly.

Gone are the days of Jay Jay Okocha, Diouf, Nonda, Bwalya and the once brilliant Kanu...

The use of Maud as a narrator is at once brilliant and unconvincing.

Once brilliant, dignified, elegant and cool, he regressed, becoming easier, more childlike, stubborn in new but benign ways.

Vevers' images show how the once brilliant coral first turned white and then became covered in seaweed.

It was a really sharp chance but Hayden, a once brilliant slipper to Warne, has taken them in the past.

"Left almost for dead to wander around the hinterland of TV and radio, wondering what the hell had happened to my once bright and brilliant young life and rock-solid career".

Two once-brilliant rap acts, both more than a decade removed from their finest moments.

Ms. Arpaia's once-brilliant partnership with Mr. Burke foundered in 2008; her even more lucrative partnership with Mr. Psilakis is being disassembled piece by piece.

Years of dancing had crippled her knees, she was confined to her wheelchair or bed, and her once-brilliant mind sometimes betrayed her.

Since the tragic death of his pregnant wife, the life of Rob Fossick, a once-brilliant photographer, has descended into prescription drug-fuelled agoraphobia.