Sentence examples for proved brilliant from inspiring English sources

A plumbing supplier from Brooklyn, he proved brilliant at financial fraud.

During the campaign, Mr. Obama proved brilliant at motivating his base.

Add to that the rise of a financial sector that has proved brilliant at extracting subsidies that protect against downside risk, and hence encourage excessive risk-taking.

The couple proved brilliant opposites, she exuberant, he understated but now enormously cheered up: happy, too, as a benign stepfather to her two children.

This year, Mr. Probst's pricey strategy of buying the rights to produce games based on hit movie series like "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings" has proved brilliant.

Whereas German carmakers have proved brilliant at re-engineering and refining their existing platforms, they seldom show the flair associated with something truly innovative.The apparent complacency of Mr Reithofer at BMW, in a recent interview, says it all: he attributes BMW's growth to increased sales volume, cost cutting and greater efficiency.

Hill proves brilliant at recycling 19th-century characters and conventions — the gargoyle mistress of the manor, the feckless young heir, the penniless live-in relation, the family done out of its just inheritance — while gleefully adding macabre genre touches like a hog roast at which the pig is replaced by a dead body.

This has proved a brilliant marketing ploy.

On this voyage, as on his two later ones, he proved a brilliant navigator and commander.

It proved a brilliant success for the composer, although Metastasio privately termed its music "insupportably barbaric".

By 1560 he had proved his brilliant strategic gifts by bringing all of Owari under his sway.