(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.
Meteoric
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.
(a.) Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.
(a.) Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 64-year-old female patient was admitted to our department for fatigue, pain in the right upper abdomen, obstipation, and meteorism.
(2) He promised to unite a divided and fractured France, saying: “I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.” Speaking of his meteoric rise and victory that was not forecast even a year ago, he said: “Everyone said it was impossible.
(3) The results were evident in the "hip-hop ballet" class in a new dance studio, and a mural of a meteor containing a dove about to hit a forest struck by lightning, suggesting that somewhere a heavy metal band is missing an album cover.
(4) The product of energy flux and efficiency implies the unexpected conclusion that shocks occurring on atmospheric entry of cometary meteors and micrometeorites and from thunder may have been the principal energy sources for pre-biological organic synthesis on the primitive earth.
(5) In the past this column has highlighted the social impact the meteoric rise in buy-to-let has had on “generation rent”, now locked out of the property market.
(6) Right subcostal pain, meteorism, and nausea due to faulty diet showed a slight difference in favour of the laparoscopic method when compared to traditional surgery.
(7) Her meteoric rise as a teenage sensation was slowed immediately after she reached the world No1 ranking in 2006 with what became a long series of shoulder issues.
(8) While his meteoric rise to fame may not be as remarkable as the Mars landing itself, it prompts the question: what is it about Bobak Ferdowsi that turned him into a meme?
(9) Extensive toxicological examinations revealed with high doses all typical symptoms of overdosing an anticholinergic drug, like mydriasis, dryness of the mucosae and meteorism with coprostasis.
(10) Emboldened by its meteoric rise in Greece, the far-right Golden Dawn party is spreading its tentacles abroad, amid fears it is acting on its pledge to "create cells in every corner of the world".
(11) After inoculation of roots, followed by constant conditions of incubation of the Meteor and Jupiter cultivars having their origin at the Plant-breeding Station at Luzany u Prestic, the isolates caused various symptoms of disease, each isolate showed a different degree of pathogenity.
(12) Some in the fibre yoghurt group experienced meteorism and loose stools.
(13) Based on Domscheit-Berg's own book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, it's being tipped as a celluloid document of Assange's meteoric rise into the public consciousness.
(14) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
(15) The impacts release profound amounts of energy: the meteor that tore into the sky over Chelyabinsk in Russia this year arrived at more than 18 kilometres per second and exploded with 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.
(16) Ron Pernick, managing director of Clean Edge and a report author, called the economic giant's "meteoric" surge "very striking."
(17) In addition to mechanical problems with the jejunal catheter abdominal complications arose during enteral alimentation (meteorism, distension), leading to discontinuation in one-third of cases.
(18) However, several aspects of the pathogenesis of the individual symptoms of IBS are well known: 1) chronic constipation is most likely due to fibre-depleted diet, psychological factors, local organic disorders (e.g., anal fissures, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis) and disturbance of the body fluid balance (e.g., high consumption of diuretic compounds such as coffee and tea); 2) pain is related to spasms and motility disturbances causing increased intraluminal pressure; 3) meteorism is not due to an increased amount of intestinal gas, but "air traps" and segmental accumulation of gas seem to occur.
(19) The breakdown of the carbohydrates by the colonic bacterial flora can cause intestinal symptoms, such as meteorism, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.
(20) Subjective complaints were improved in both treatment groups except for nausea and meteorism that improved more in the CBS treated patients.