5459 examples of brilliant in sentences

Gradually, as I looked, I became aware that fine points of intensely brilliant light, traversed the rays.

He and the Countess Arnim received a great deal, and their beautiful rooms in the Palazzo Caffarelli, on the top of the Capitol Hill (the two great statues of Castor and Pollux standing by their horses looking as if they were guarding the entrance) were a brilliant centre for all the Roman and diplomatic world.

As long as Marshal MacMahon was President of the Republic, he always rode home after the review down the Champs-Elyseesin full uniform, with a brilliant staff of foreign officers and military attaches.

It is difficult to believe that a French general with a brilliant record behind him should have been guilty of such treachery, sacrificing his men and his honour.

His brilliant exploit, capturing the Smala of Abd-el-Kader, has been immortalised by Vernet in the great historical picture that one sees at Versailles.

How many beautiful sunsets I have seen from the top of the terrace or else standing on the three famous pink marble steps (so well known to all lovers of poetry through Alfred de Musset's beautiful verses, "Trois Marches Roses"), seeing in imagination all the brilliant crowd of courtiers and fair women that used to people those wonderful gardens in the old days of Versailles!

I never tired of hearing about the brilliant days of the last Empire, and the fetes at the Tuileries, Compiegne, and St. Cloud.

He must have had an inner sense or presentiment of some kind about the future, for I have heard him say often in speaking of the old days and the glories of the Empire, when everything seemed so prosperous and brilliant, that he used often to ask himself if it could be realWere the foundations as solid as they seemed!

It was rather sad, as we drove through the stately alleys of the Park of St. Cloud, with the setting sun shining through the fine old trees, to hear of all the fetes that used to take place there,and one could quite well fancy the beautiful Empress appearing at the end of one of the long avenues, followed by a brilliant suite of ladies and ecuyers,and the echoes of the cor de chasse in the distance.

There was no general conversation; I talked exclusively to my two neighbours, but as they were always distinguished in some branch of art, science, or literature, the talk was brilliant, and I found the hour our dinner lasted a very short one.

Our party was very brilliant, all sorts of notabilities of all kinds, and the leading Paris artists from the Grand Opera, Opera Comique, and the Francais.

He was a brilliant, cultured speaker, but had a curt, dictatorial manner, with an air always of looking down upon his public.

The marshal received at the Elysee every Thursday eveninghe and his staff in uniform, also all the officers who came, which made a brilliant gathering.

I was generally the only lady with eight or ten men, and the talk was often brilliant.

He had been many years in Paris during the brilliant days of the Empire, knew everybody there worth knowing.

Even W., who knew him well and admired him immensely, was struck by his brilliant improvisation.

He was in Paris at the time, and was in the garden a few hours after the executionremembered quite well the wall against which the marshal stoodand the comments of the crowd, not very flattering for the Government in executing one of France's bravest and most brilliant soldiers.

The opening ceremony was very brilliant.

The marshal had a series of dinners and receptions which were most brilliant.

For centuries, religion has too often been thought of, too often spoken of, as if it were the last resource of the heart, A brilliant young professor of psychology not long ago referred to religion as something to flee to, by those who were disappointed in love!

I visit them for their calm seclusion, their pure air, their natural cheerfulness, their transcendent beauty, their brilliant mornings, their glorious sunsets, their quiet and repose.

"My dear Stafford, I know that you are not possessed of a particularly brilliant intellect, but you surely possess sufficient intelligence to see that your attentions to Miss Falconer are somewhat obvious.

Come on!" With a nod, a smile, a tender look of love and gratitude to Stafford, the brilliant adventurer, once more thrown by the buoyant wave upon the shore of safety and success, went out to communicate that success to his coadjutors.

My boss, as I remember him, was a tall, raw-boned man, but rather distinguished in looks, with a fine carriage, brilliant in intellect, and considered one of the wealthiest and most successful planters of his time.

The Chaldaean shepherds, as they watched their flocks by night, noted the movements of the planets, and gave names to the more brilliant constellations.

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