"Many a brilliant match has been based on far less."
It was considered a "brilliant match" for this daughter of a prominent Italian journalist.
It would be a brilliant match, they would say.
She was his fiancée and it was considered the most brilliant match of the season.
Being both beautiful and the daughter of a marquess, she was naturally expected to make a brilliant match.
It was not considered a brilliant match, but they were also related.
Like Morton, Green is not a brilliant match for her, but an acceptable one.
Any other mother would be over the moon at such a brilliant match.
The brilliant matches arranged for her children gave the Danish dynasty international status.
But although this is a brilliant match, the herb doesn't have to be basil.