The director, meanwhile, throws away all the work's great moments, dissipating their focus and blurring the contrast between quick-fire brilliance and slow expansiveness.
But his careful questioning and quick wit underlie the brilliance of "In Our Time" — its ability to draw in listeners on subjects that they would not expect themselves to care much about, or perhaps even to be able to tolerate.
He had been quick to identify the brilliance of a young American in London called Ezra Pound, and instrumental in shaping the early reception of Walter de la Mare, WH Davies and many others besides; and he was quite undaunted in taking to task the literary giants of the day if they fell below the mark, be they Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling or WB Yeats.
Whether it's his love of the ladies, his yachts, his mysterious lack of eyebrows, his strategic brilliance, his quick-witted jabs at competitors, random musings that he may buy Apple, or declarations that software is done as a category and he'd just buy everyone up, Larry Ellison has long been the software reporter's gift that keeps on giving.
After a few quick, appealing testimonials about the brilliance of "Eloise" from Dunham and her fellow-enthusiasts Fran Lebowitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Mindy Kaling (who provides one of the best laughs in the movie), the film plunges faithfully into Knight's own story.
The crafty and quick Dragic showed occasional flashes of brilliance in two seasons as Nash's backup before being traded to Houston for Aaron Brooks in February 2011.
The Titans have a long road ahead of them in 2015 but hope to get a full season of brilliance from the lightning-quick Roberts.
As I followed incremental directions texted to me every five minutes my certainty of the brilliance of my get-rich-quick scheme did start to wobble.
They were quick on the counter-attack and only the brilliance of Keiren Westwood prevented them taking the lead.
Scott Hazelton, who has been at TVG for more than a decade, was quick to inform television viewers about the subtle brilliance of the Denman reference Saturday.
