Pierre ranked first at the entrance examination to the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, and throughout his education held the title of " cacique " which was internally attributed to the most brilliant student, ahead of intellectuals such as philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch and two years before Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron.

It comes from the entrance to the Salone Beriliyon ( brilliant diamond ) room and was probably a reject or it may have been retrieved from the rebuilding of the palace in the period 1867-92.

In an excerpt from his autobiography, Sir James is quoted as saying: " The imprinting mathematical influence was Dr Waterson at Beath High School, a brilliant and rumbustious teacher, who more or less man-handled me into sitting the competitive entrance examination for St Andrews University.

* Rodney Scott as William " Will " Krudski, a poor but brilliant young man who cheated on the entrance exam to ensure his admission and has a complicated relationship to his father.

This leads into an exact recapitulation of the piano's entrance, which now leads into a brilliant coda involving various figurations of the octave-triplet idea, as well as runs on the piano consisting entirely of ascending parallel triads and glissandi.

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.

But the attempt itself produced a number of brilliant works, and these form a transition from the early romantic period to the new age of Ibsen and Chekhov.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

The autofluorescence from the walls of the xylem cells was particularly brilliant.

Lime white, hard and brilliant, has a tendency to `` jump '' away from the other colors in drying, and also by its capacity to set, to preclude the use of ready-made gradations, so useful in decorative work.

Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.

Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn, who danced the `` Nutcracker '' pas de deux, were also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from `` Don Quixote '', another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely.

He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but his laboratory was often untidy.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

A combination of deception and brilliant administration – designed to conceal his true destination from friend and foe alike – enabled Marlborough to march unhindered from the Low Countries to the River Danube in five weeks.

One of the finest natural examples of this ordering phenomenon can be found in precious opal, in which brilliant regions of pure spectral color result from close-packed domains of amorphous colloidal spheres of silicon dioxide ( or silica, SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >).

Thanks to 8 brilliant innings from Jorge De La Rosa, and home runs from Troy Tulowitzki and Ian Stewart, the Rockies took a 4 – 0 lead into the bottom of the 9th.

Christopher Syn is portrayed as a brilliant scholar from Queen's College, Oxford, possessing swashbuckling skills such as riding, fencing, and seamanship.

In an example taken from his high school experience, Miller recalls that one of his classmates ... struck upon the brilliant idea of using an old, broken mousetrap as a spitball catapult, and it worked brilliantly .... It had worked perfectly as something other than a mousetrap .... my rowdy friend had pulled a couple of parts -- probably the hold-down bar and catch -- off the trap to make it easier to conceal and more effective as a catapult ... the base, the spring, and the hammer.

Either from the imperfect cutting or the difficulty of placing the lights advantageously, or the immovability of the stone itself, which should be made to revolve on its axis, few catch any of the brilliant rays it reflects when viewed at a particular angle.

The characteristic brilliant red-orange color that is emitted by gaseous neon when excited electrically was noted immediately ; Travers later wrote, " the blaze of crimson light from the tube told its own story and was a sight to dwell upon and never forget.

The metaphor of His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light even if no fire touches it.

But, by a brilliant campaign in 1506, Julius succeeded in freeing Perugia and Bologna from their despots ( Giampolo Baglioni and Giovanni II Bentivoglio, respectively ), and raised himself to such a height of influence as to render his friendship of prime importance both to Louis XII of France and the Holy Roman Emperor.

Although colorless at standard temperature and pressure, when cooled below its freezing point of, radon emits a brilliant phosphorescence that turns from yellow to orange-red as the temperature lowers.

Papert worked with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva from 1958 to 1963 and is widely considered the most brilliant and successful of Piaget's protégés ; Piaget once said that " no one understands my ideas as well as Papert.

., ndividual sections are often brilliant, the message is incisive and timely ," that " as a story it limps " and that many characters, including the main antagonists, " are cut from cardboard.

Many view her as a brilliant and cunning woman and she is one of the central figures in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel, The Three Musketeers and its sequels.

The brilliant central object is a supergiant elliptical galaxy, the dominant member of a galaxy cluster with the name MACSJ1423. 8 + 2404.

Pwyll's visible dark central region is about 26 kilometers in diameter, while brilliant white rays of debris blasted from the impact site extend outward for hundreds of kilometers.

The massive glass curtain wall façade of reinforced blue tinted mirrored glass is its central feature and changes colour during the day, ranging from a trademark dark blue to a brilliant gold during sunset.

A central attraction in the French section was the Imperial Diamond, at the time the largest brilliant in the world.

The top central stone of the front plate is a triangular sapphire which replaces a famous stone, now lost, which was known as the Waise ( i. e., the ' Orphan ', because of its uniqueness ), probably a large white opal with a wine-red fire or possibly a singularly brilliant garnet or red zircon and the subject of much legendary medieval lore.

The Anhui agricultural reforms were heralded as brilliant innovations by the central government.

The irregular, blob-like lobes of the outer ejecta are much fainter than the brilliant central star, by about 100, 000 times.

This, however, was not a brilliant performance give that the central part of the Lord's square that year was so worn the ball consistently kept low.

As the title suggests, Manchester's central thesis is that MacArthur was an analogue of Julius Caesar, a proposition he supports by noting their great intellect, brilliant strategic generalship, political ambition, magnanimity as conquerors, and shared tragic flaw of hubris.

The male has a brilliant green plumage, with white thighs and a dark metallic blue tail ( clearly forked in the northern part of its range ; slightly so in the central and southern part ).

A brilliant mechanic, his methods are however rather unorthodox ( for instance, whacking the central engine with his hammer to make it work is always a viable solution for him ).

Wolfson was a brilliant financier and this was central to his early success.