Her verse is distinguished by its epigrammatic compression, haunting personal voice, enigmatic brilliance, and lack of high polish.
Wit, charm, brilliance, rapture, personal crisis and a few strokes of fate are all wrapped up together in an extraordinary parcel, wonderfully right for Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" concerto.
Her artistic brilliance and personal appeal transcend geographic, cultural and generational boundaries".
Had Kennedy been healthy, he would have been able to use his personal relationships and legislative brilliance to neutralize Baucus and push for a more progressive plan.
"The Gould I knew had warmth, humor, brilliance and normal personal relationships, which hadn't sufficiently been explored in the past," said Stephen Posen, a Toronto lawyer who is the executor of the Gould estate.
We have precedents for heinous personal beliefs coinciding with creative brilliance (Ezra Pound, Richard Wagner), and bigotry embodied in works of great formal achievement ("The Birth of a Nation," "Triumph of the Will"), but this is an unusual case of an artist's ideological extremism so suddenly exposed, and so plainly relevant to his art.
We have lost our founder, the source of our inspiration, the towering personality that was Erica Jesselson, our shining star, whose brilliance, creativity, goodness, and personal piety piloted us for more than three decades.
Only the brilliance of Kublai's personal achievement obscured that truth.
The best seats are at the bar where you can watch Minamishima's brilliance up close and personal.
