"brilliant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He kept voluminous logbooks full of weirdly brilliant philosophical riffs.
- Later in life, he cheekily donated his brilliant riffs on perhaps the country's most cherished painting - "Las Meninas" by Velázques - proving that even after years of self-imposed exile, Picasso couldn't get Spain out of his system.
- All this might seem a little phony, or, worse, crass, but a bite of peekytoe-crab toast ought to stifle your concerns: buttery, salty, with a trace of fennel, it was a brilliant riff on boardwalk cuisine.
- A few drawings here, high-key, muscular and subtle at the same time, look like brilliant riffs on de Kooning.
- At Second Stage, the endearingly high-strung Desmin Borges played Macedonio Guerra, delivering brilliant turbocharged riffs on ethnic America.
- Sam Lipsyte's miserably funny "The Ask" is, among other things, a brilliant riff on this alarming phenomenon.
- Pure heaven: nearly three dozen early sculptures, small enough to hold in your hands, and a few drawings, brilliant riffs on de Kooning.
- Beating like a stately continuo behind the brilliant riffs of Mr. Hobsbawm's specialized studies has been his vastly ambitious project to write a grand, synthetic history of the "long nineteenth century" stretching from the American Revolution of 1776 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
- In "Multitude," there is much fancy footwork and theory, intriguing historical asides and intermittently brilliant riffs, but their schematic picture is brutally clear.
- For the most part the reader does not yawn through "Pelikan," which has some brilliant riffs as well as some not-so-brilliant ones.
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