Sentence examples for spectacular intelligence from inspiring English sources

With his spectacular intelligence, humor, humanity, optimism and compassion, he set an example for us all.

His global terror alert, based on a reportedly spectacular intelligence intercept described as a conference call of "the Legion of Doom," shut down a bunch of embassies and alarmed travelers around the world but has led, at least so far as we know, only to action in Yemen shutting down Al Qaeda moves internal to that failing state.

He attacks these pieties, with spectacular clarity and intelligence, as small-­minded and cowardly and boring.

One spectacular failure of French intelligence was its gross miscalculation of German military strength in 1914, when it underrated German technical and tactical capabilities.

"The vulnerability is spectacular," said Martin Rudner, director of intelligence and security studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.

James arrived in Belarus in the form of her life and made up for lost time with some spectacular performances of speed, stamina, intelligence and mental strength.

She was "a woman of legendary but fading Irish beauty, spectacular red hair and marvellously eccentric intelligence", or so said the writer William McPherson.

The effective depiction of action — even naïvely spectacular action — requires a great deal of intelligence, and the depiction of characters who aren't intellectuals doesn't make a movie dumb.

So the regime felt free to begin another escalation after the spectacular July 18th rebel bombing of an intelligence building in Damascus, in which four of Assad's top security advisors were killed.

Perhaps Ms. Koh's diverse activities ward off dull routine: her account had a compelling mix of intelligence and freshness, with a spectacular showing in the first-movement cadenza.

One intelligence report has warned of something "spectacular" occurring in Kabul.