Daniel Mason's first novel, "The Piano Tuner," published in 2002, when the author was a 26-year-old medical student, was a dazzling debut.

He followed up his dazzling debut with another solid performance, giving up just one hit-a single-in a 7-3 win that ended after 5 innings.

Amid the chorus of acclaim, Michiko Kakutani, a New York Times critic, called the book "a dazzling debut."

Variety compared Paul Reubens to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, while Empire called the film "a one-comic masterpiece" and "a dazzling debut" for Burton.

Southall's departure forced Kendall to take off winger Robert Warzycha and send on gutsy substitute Australian keeper Jason Kearton for a dazzling debut - never mind the scoreline.

The seven stories in this dazzling debut are set in Thailand, where Lapcharoensap, now 26, has lived much of his life.

So Bird would certainly put LeBron James's dazzling debut in perspective by reminding us all of the wisdom of the wait-and-see approach, right?

The stories Link brings us in "Stranger Things Happen," her often dazzling debut collection, are not entirely of this world either.

Here he was, the rookie flash who hit .321 in a dazzling debut in September, trapped at .128 in a fading start in April.

Her compositional style has evolved during the years since her dazzling orchestral debut, Ad Unum, a powerful, dissonant, dramatic and well-crafted study of convergence towards musical unity.