10 sentences with 'brilliant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word brilliant and other words derived from it.
• « But there are brilliant people who are impatient with slower people and find it impossible to listen. »
• « He was a brilliant student, and his greatest ambition was to travel throughout the United States. »
• « Although she was not the most brilliant student I had ever had-she had taught more than 1,000 students-she was the best. »
• « A brilliant Roman general named Scipio defeated Carthaginian forces in Spain in 207 BCE, cutting off Hannibal from both reinforcements and supplies, which significantly weakened his army. »
• « Caesar himself was a brilliant general and a shrewd politician; he was adept at maintaining the appearance of loyalty to Rome's ancient institutions while seizing opportunities to advance and enrich himself and his family. »
• « Pompey had been the most powerful man in Rome, both a brilliant general and a gifted politician, but he did not anticipate Caesar's audacity. Caesar surprised him by marching straight into Rome. »
• « This period of successful rule finally came to an end when the practice of choosing a competent follower ended - the emperor Marcus Aurelius, a brilliant leader and Stoic philosopher (161 - 180 CE) appointed his arrogant and foolish son Commodus (r. 177 - 192 CE) his co-emperor three years before Aurelius' death. »
• « Justinian sent a brilliant general, Belisarius, into Vandal-controlled North Africa in 533 with a fairly small force of soldiers and cavalry, and within a year Belisarius soundly defeated the Vandal army and retook North Africa for the empire. »