This line showed that the pressure the black rook exerted on the queenside was not illusory, and Kasparov's reply on move 16, albeit brilliant, did create a weakness.

Chen Gong's most brilliant, albeit fictitious, maneuver came during the Battle of Puyang, in which Cao Cao's force laid siege on Lü Bu in the city of Puyang ( 濮陽 ).

He almost immediately endears himself to the unbearable and cynical Mrs Bramson, a testimony of his brilliant acting ability.

Almost two decades later, a review in the DVD Times called the film " A sun-bleached study in corruption and soul-destroying brutality, this film by the notoriously erratic but sometimes brilliant William Friedkin is nasty, cynical and incredibly good.

Rickie is not brilliant at argument, but he is intensely responsive to poetry and art, and is accepted within a circle of philosophical and intellectual fellow-students led by a brilliant but especially cynical aspiring philosopher, Stuart Ansell, who refuses, when he is introduced to her, even to acknowledge that Agnes exists.

Antonio José de Sucre, the brilliant young lieutenant of Bolívar who arrived in Guayaquil in May 1821, was to become the key figure in the ensuing military struggle against the royalist forces.

This view changed drastically in the 18th century, when critics regarded Hamlet as a hero — a pure, brilliant young man thrust into unfortunate circumstances.

A brilliant performance of young left back Royston Drenthe at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship had investors flocking to the new investment schemes Feyenoord had set up.

The concept of the brilliant young Vulcan scientist, Xon, almost survived into a later movie.

" He decides to create a starring role for Vicky in a new ballet, The Red Shoes, the music for which is to be written by Julian Craster ( Marius Goring ) a brilliant young composer engaged as orchestral coach the same day that Vicky was brought into the company.

During that time he met in 1818, the young and brilliant Peruvian student of the Royal Mining School of Paris, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz.

About this time he was appointed to a canonry in Utrecht and to another in Aachen, and the life of the brilliant young scholar was rapidly becoming luxurious, secular and selfish, when a great spiritual change passed over him which resulted in a final renunciation of every worldly enjoyment.

On one occasion, young Oscar Wilde attended one of Whistler's dinners, and hearing his host make some brilliant remark, apparently said, " I wish I'd said that ", to which Whistler riposted, " You will, Oscar, you will!

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

On the French political scene, he appeared as a young brilliant politician, and a preeminent expert in economic issues.

He was called " The Pride and Sorrow of Chess " because he had a brief and brilliant chess career, but then retired from the game while still young.

Taken from Richards, the son is raised on an army base where he appears to be a well-adjusted, physically superior, and tactically brilliant young man who greatly resembles his father.

Most of the clever young men of the brilliant generation of 1830 passed under his influence ; and, while he pleased the Romanticists by his frank appreciation of the beauties of English, German, Italian, and Spanish poetry, he did not decry the classics — either the classics proper of Greece and Rome or the so-called classics of France.

* Sophie's Choice ( 1979 ), a story " told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn ".

Boult wrote, " a brilliant group of young and inexperienced players came to sit behind the well-known old stagers.

Already as a young man, he gained a reputation as a brilliant Torah scholar.

One of Eliade's earliest fiction writings, the controversial first-person narrative Isabel şi apele diavolului, focused on the figure of a young and brilliant academic, whose self-declared fear is that of " being common ".

As observed by Leamas, Fiedler seems content to live in Mundt's shadow, but is relatively young and brilliant.

" Adolph Zukor, chairman of Paramount, stated, " Irving Thalberg was the most brilliant young man in the motion picture business.

Her husband is Jørgen Tesman, an aspiring, young, reliable ( but not brilliant ) academic who has combined research with their honeymoon.

He could supplement his pure serve-and-volley game with brilliant athleticism at the net, which included the diving volley that was considered a trademark of the young German, and which endeared him to his fans.

Teresa Stolz went on to a brilliant career, Waldmann retired very young in 1875, and the male singers appear to have faded into obscurity.

In Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England ( 1844: translated as The Condition of the Working Class in England ), Friedrich Engels wrote sarcastically of Young England ( a ginger-group of young aristocrats hostile to the new industrial order ) that they hoped to restore " the old ' merry England ' with its brilliant features and its romantic feudalism.

A female acquaintance at Christ Church described Heseltine as " probably about 22 ( he was 19 ) but he appears to be years older ... 6 feet high, absolutely fit ... brilliant blue eyes ... and the curved lips and highhead carriage of a young Greek God ".

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

The Holy Father would die soon, she said to Carla, so she could translate for Sam, although he had a brilliant doctor, a man who did not need the assistance of those doctors offered by the great rulers of the world.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

Highgate was his patch and he should be celebrated because he was a very good, brilliant, funny, nice, wise, kind man, who occasionally drank too much.

Lavater later described Mendelssohn in his book on physiognomy, " Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe " ( 1775 – 1778 ), as " a companionable, brilliant soul, with piercing eyes, the body of an Aesop — a man of keen insight, exquisite taste and wide erudition [...] frank and open-hearted "— ending his public praise with the wish of Mendelssohn recognizing, " together with Plato and Moses ... the crucified glory of Christ ".

Being brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate everyone, even a love-sated man already past his prime, she thought that it would be in keeping with her role to meet Caesar, and she reposed in her beauty all her claims to the throne.

Brenton paints the portrait of a brilliant, witty but complex man, tragically out of kilter with his times, an old Etonian who eventually loses his way in a world of shifting values.

Rickenbacker's position as CEO was taken over by Malcolm A. MacIntyre, ' a brilliant lawyer but a man inexperienced in airline operations '.

By an exercise of brilliant psychological deception, and a secretive night march covering nearly 40 miles in 18 hours, the Allies penetrated the allegedly impregnable lines without losing a single man ; Marlborough was now in position to besiege the fortress of Bouchain.

Even while she lies dying in the next room, Saccard ( in a brilliant scene of breathtaking callousness ) is already making arrangements to marry rich country girl Renée, who is pregnant with the child of a local labourer and whose family wishes to avoid scandal by offering a huge dowry to any man who will marry her and claim the baby as his own.

He was a brilliant, driven man who did not spare himself and who enjoyed working with equally driven people.

Such players were dubbed Meijin ( brilliant man ), which was considered equal to a 9 dan professional grade.

Here he had a brilliant career, and seems to have been almost immediately recognised as the leading man of his year.

He was thought to be a man of brilliant and versatile talents, but selfish, insincere and intriguing, defects of character which arguably led to his political ruin ; and his writings were described as glittering, artificial and lacking philosophical merit.

:" Surely a man as smart as you can see this is a brilliant proposal.

* J. Colossal McGenius: The brilliant marketing consultant and " idea man " who charged $ 10, 000 per word for his sought-after business advice.

For that view of his character which while allowing him the merit of a brilliant political theorist denies him the qualities of a man of action and of a practical politician, there is no solid basis.

Montaigne wrote in his famous " Essais ": " It is putting a very high value on one's conjectures, to have a man roasted alive because of them ... To kill people, there must be sharp and brilliant clarity.

The young man was a brilliant student, but when the First World War broke out in 1914 he immediately abandoned his studies and joined the German Army.

Partly because of its stark honesty about the pain that this kind of struggle causes a family, and partly because of its refreshingly revealing portrait of a brilliant young man ( he discovered a new way to liquefy ammonia ) struck down too young by incurable illness, Death Be Not Proud became a best-selling book that is still popular today.

Just before this event, Thomas Hope, the brilliant author of Anastasius, a man of vast wealth and learning, and a discriminating collector, had published his folio volume of plates and text upon the subject of Furniture and Internal Decoration, which did a great deal to stimulate the popular taste.