14 sentences with “brilliant”

My brother is a brilliant mathematics student.

He had a brilliant thought that saved the project.

Suddenly, a brilliant idea came to my mind to solve the problem.

The pianist performed a sonata by Chopin with brilliant and expressive technique.

Why do such brilliant people commit such foolishness?

However, in the summer of 1992 his brilliant career was cut short.

He was a brilliant student, and his greatest ambition was to travel throughout the United States.

But there are brilliant people who are impatient with slower people and find it impossible to listen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.