BRILLIANCE in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for BRILLIANCE, such as:

1. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine.
2. He is also respected for his brilliance as an artist.
3. But, when they have a stroke of brilliance, boy, do they ever!
4. Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room.
5. The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance.

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brilliance
 n.  cleverness; magnificence
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  "Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as it were wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
2  A long while she lay, not moving, with open eyes, whose brilliance she almost fancied she could herself see in the darkness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  All this she said brightly, rapidly, and with a peculiar brilliance in her eyes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 27
4  The immense stretch of meadow had been mown and was sparkling with a peculiar fresh brilliance, with its lines of already sweet-smelling grass in the slanting rays of the evening sun.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
5  The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort of new brilliance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 24
6  It looked as though every window bore lights, lights defying the mist to dim their brilliance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
7  Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
8  The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
9  There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
10  Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  He spoke it almost in a brilliancy of triumph, and Connie looked at him as if dazzled, and really feeling nothing at all.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  Last night it had been hope and smiles, bustle and motion, noise and brilliancy, in the drawing-room, and out of the drawing-room, and everywhere.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste, and feeling.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
15  There was, however, gradually evolved from its transformation scenes a less extravagant episode, in which the heath dimly appeared behind the general brilliancy of the action.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
Example Sentence:
1  He is also respected for his brilliance as an artist.
2  Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
3  But, when they have a stroke of brilliance, boy, do they ever!