What's the difference between brilliance and lambent?

Brilliance


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
  • (2) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
  • (3) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
  • (4) As any biography will also tell you, for all his shape-shifting brilliance, Bowie is a Royal Variety Performance vaudevillian at heart.
  • (5) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
  • (6) When Ray Moore – now the former chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, home of the eponymous tournament – said the ladies should get down on their knees to give thanks for the brilliance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because otherwise no one would pay any attention to female tennis players at all, he was talking the kind of gibberish usually heard from people who haven’t thought about the subject at all.
  • (7) Fulham 0-3 Arsenal (Podolski) Sheer brilliance from Podolski.
  • (8) For these children, giftedness itself brings problems, sometimes referred to as "the handicap of brilliance".
  • (9) An era of turbulence, back-stabbing, bravery and brilliance, I knew I wanted it to form the basis for a conspiracy thread in the story.
  • (10) Hart’s brilliance earned him a long embrace at the final whistle from Luis Suárez and the Uruguayan’s face was one of wonder.
  • (11) It's become a terrible cliché to invoke the brilliance of AMC's Mad Men .
  • (12) That was Buffon’s one mistake of a night when there were other moments to remind us of his enduring brilliance.
  • (13) Photograph: Getty Images Delord has no criticisms of anyone's beliefs about UFOs, or otherwise, "It's a magnificent mountain and people say they do see things – brilliance, lights, not necessarily extraterrestrials," though he hopes aliens do exist somewhere in the universe.
  • (14) Blow us.” She topped off this feat of Twitter brilliance with no less than an “OK” sign emoji.
  • (15) Circulatory velocity by the intensity and brilliance of colours.
  • (16) Abbott could understand their fair questions and they could then amplify his brilliance and refreshing insight, a nourishing transaction.
  • (17) Italy At least England know what to expect from the Azzurri : a masterclass in the retention of possession, orchestrated by Andrea Pirlo in his quarterback role; a stingy defence most likely forged at Juventus; and a maverick forward capable of brilliance and lunacy in equal measures.
  • (18) But if you’re willing to endure for the occasional flash of brilliance, have at it.
  • (19) There were crumbs of brilliance for fans on luvvies' day (nice to see Sir Bruce Forsyth so attentive, nice), most of them from the racket of the defending champion.
  • (20) The fourth in particular, an overhead volley from an almost implausible angle and distance, was the kind of rare brilliance that could be associated with only an elite band of footballers.

Lambent


Definition:

  • (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
  • (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then it's off  out to treat the world to the sight of their lissom frames, youthful musculature and poreless, naturally lambent skin whose glow seems to reach out and greet the sun as a cousin.
  • (2) And there are indeed nods to krautrock and specifically Can's lambent dance music and to the NYC punk-funk of James Chance and His Contortions , with some of the excitement and energy of present-day London, and as soon as we find out what happened musically in late-50s Egypt we'll report right back.
  • (3) Night has fallen on Volterra, but the stars are lambent, despite harsh lights around the fortress wall.