The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

This film maintained a period-accurate filming style, and was received as both " the best HPL adaptation to date " and, referring to the decision to make it as a silent movie, " a brilliant conceit.

Often praised as a brilliant adaptation with an outstanding performance by Steenburgen, this production has never been released on DVD and has since been shown in the US only once, on Bravo.

It wasn't until his brilliant portrayal of the Monkey King character in the 1996 TVB adaptation of the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West that his popularity began to skyrocket.

in the exciting salons of his lovely, brilliant Paris -- mistress of gaiety -- excess and abandon -- world theatre of new-found freedoms in tone, color, dance, design, and thought.

I thought it was brilliant satire, not only of Trek, but of fandom in general.

He said he found himself enveloped in a brilliant light, and looked up to see what seemed like the sun falling directly onto his body, and he thought that he was having a heart attack.

" Patton certainly thought so, claiming that the relief of Bastogne was " the most brilliant operation we have thus far performed, and it is in my opinion the outstanding achievement of the war.

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.

Liszt commented: " I thought there were only two men able to surmount the difficulties ... there are three, and ... the youngest is perhaps the boldest and most brilliant ".

In The Observers issue of November 15, 1936, in a review section entitled " Supreme de Poirot ", " Torquemada " ( Edward Powys Mathers ) said, " I was not the only one who thought that Poirot or his creator had gone a little off the rails in Murder in Mesopotamia, which means that others beside myself will rejoice at Mrs. Christie's brilliant come-back in Cards on the Table.

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.

The Yellow Book's brilliant color immediately associated the periodical with illicit French novels-an anticipation, many thought, of the scurrilous content inside.

Francis Iles ( Anthony Berkeley Cox ) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in The Guardian of 7 December 1962 when he said, " she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick.

And the doctrines of the brilliant series of war school commandants, Maillard, Langlois, Bonnal, Foch, had been challenged, not only by the German school, but also since about 1911 by a new school of thought within the French army itself, which, under the inspiration of General Loiseau de Grandmaison, criticized them as lacking in vigour and offensive spirit, and conducing to needless dispersion of force.

" The Observer also thought that the play depended on brilliant acting and thought the characters unrealistic, though " None the less, for a couple of hours they are delicious company when Mr. Coward is master of unceremonious ceremonies.

At the thought of that day, I feel aflame from head to toe with a brilliant flame that burns, consumes, but gives no pain.

Initially thought to be brilliant by his boss.

* “ A combination of brilliant wit and a profound sense of drama, delicate thought and powerful construction, a brave, at times even a bold type of experiment and the constancy of the Russian national tradition, multiply enhanced by the greatest compositional technique – this has always fascinated and continues to fascinate me in Rodion Shchedrin ’ s musical output .” Mikhail Pletnyov

The shape of a pyramid is thought to be representative of the descending rays of the sun, and most pyramids were faced with polished, highly reflective white limestone, in order to give them a brilliant appearance when viewed from a distance.

WABC came up with they thought was a brilliant promotion-" The Order of the All-Americans "-tied with their DJs.

Of her tenure as Karen McDonald on Coronation Street, Jones later remarked: " I just thought, while she's brilliant and I'm enjoying her, I've got to get out ".

He knew how to charm with brilliant and striking phrases without expressing any well-defined thought.

Homer celebrates madly, leading Burns to finally realize that Homer is not the " brilliant tactician " he thought he was.

Michelle Trachtenberg later said of this effect, " obviously you know in the end result there was no sound and I thought that was actually one of the most brilliant ideas ever had because it allows everyone to sort of attach their own emotional plug into whatever might have happened in your life.

" Darwin thought it a " brilliant review.

He saw some people who he thought were insanely brilliant individuals who seemed to have the same mindset and positive attitude towards hacking that he did so he decided to approach a couple of them to see if anyone would be interested in forming a group and working together.

The superficial, brilliant, pseudo-scientific Catholicism of the capital did not satisfy Renan, who had accepted the austere faith of his Breton masters.

: Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 411 – 425 ( brilliant essay on theology and faith during times of nihilism )

This is a gallant authorial gesture, as when a professor at Cornell, Nabokov had complained from the lectern of authors who ask readers to accept a character's gifts on faith: " The author has hinted already that Gurov focus of Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog was witty in the company of women: and instead of having the reader take it for granted ( you know the old method of describing the talk as ' brilliant ' but giving no samples of the conversation ), Chekhov makes him joke in a really attractive, winning way.

After brilliant studies, he entered in 1914 the École Normale Supérieure ( ENS ) after having been the student of Alain, a philosopher who was active in the Radical Party and who would write a deeply anti-militarist book after World War I.

He is a sarcastic, drug-addicted, foul-mouthed, troubled, bitter, but deeply brilliant gonzo journalist with a deep-seated hatred of authority and political corruption, almost always drawn wearing a set of stereoscopic sunglasses with one lens red and the other green, and is most often compared to the real-life figure Hunter S. Thompson.

The character played by Khan ( Abhimanyu Rai ) gained instant popularity due to the brilliant writing, shooting and editing of the team of creators who were all young and deeply committed.

Allmusic critics, Jason Ankenny and Thom Jurek called the album " brilliant " and commented that " With its elegiac tone and deeply autobiographical lyrics, this was a Morrison who didn't so readily associate himself with the feel-good, peace, love, and rhythm & blues sound American audiences were used to.

After brilliant studies at Göttingen he spent a year at Munich, where he was greatly impressed by the lectures of Schelling and Thiersch, and afterwards settled as a teacher in Frankfurt.

His struggle to rise from his chair and walk to the podium for a lecture was moving, but the audience was always more impressed when he forcefully articulated his brilliant concepts.

In 790 he was named abbot of Centulum, also called Sancti Richarii monasterium ( Saint-Riquier ) in northern France, where his brilliant rule gained for him later the renown of a saint.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

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.

Allen Aylett was a brilliant player in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( and captain between 1961 and 1964 ), as was Noel Teasdale, who lost the Brownlow Medal on a countback in 1965 ( he was later awarded a retrospective medal when the counting system was amended ).

Shortly after David's tenure on the book ended, Forge, a former government weapons contractor whose mutant powers were his brilliant engineering skills, was added to the group ; first replacing Cooper as their liaison after she had been compromised by one of Magneto's Acolytes, and later as an active member.

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 ".

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

For Augustus, though at the outset he showed himself rather harsh because of the wars and the factional strife, was later able, in the course of time, to achieve a brilliant reputation for his kindly deeds ; Titus, on the other hand, ruled with mildness and died at the height of his glory, whereas, if he had lived a long time, it might have been shown that he owes his present fame more to good fortune than to merit.

A few weeks later, he defended his brilliant doctoral work and became a Doctor of Divinity.

He was known as one of the most brilliant military commanders in the Star Wars universe and was superior to even geniuses such as General Garm Bel Iblis ( who only later joined the New Republic due to personal issues with the Rebel Alliance's leader Mon Mothma ) and Admiral Ackbar, who led the Rebellion to victory in many crucial battles.

Today many amateurs think of Morphy as a dazzling combinative player, who excelled in sacrificing his queen and checkmating his opponent a few brilliant moves later.

In the early 19th century, the reforming zeal of Provosts John Eveleigh and Edward Copleston gained Oriel the reputation of being the most brilliant college of the day and the centre of the " Oriel Noetics " — clerical liberals such as Richard Whately and Thomas Arnold were Fellows, and the during the 1830s, two intellectually eminent Fellows of Oriel, John Keble and The Blessed John Henry Newman, supported by Canon Pusey ( also an Oriel fellow initially, later at Christ Church ) and others, formed a group known as the Oxford Movement, alternatively as the Tractarians, or familiarly as the Puseyites.

He then returned to Beethoven's original form, later changing it to a gay Viennese waltz, with its own peculiar harmonies, and finally dashed into cascades of brilliant passages, a perfect storm of sound in which the original theme was still unmistakable.

Robert: a recently deceased mathematician who did brilliant, breakthrough, work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness ; he is seen in Catherine's imagination and in flashbacks

Although parodied in later years, the band is now recognised as a pioneering act, capturing the zeitgeist of their time, particularly with the brilliant guitar work of Paul Reynolds and multi-layered hits such as " Space Age Love Song ", Telecommunication and Modern Love is Automatic.

A brilliant autochthonous civilization developed around the town of Dinawar ( today ruined ), located 75 km North-East of Kermanshah, whose radiance was later on partially replaced by that of Senna, 90 km further North

It also tells of the Peshwa's relations with his mother Radhabai, his wife Kashibai, his son Nana Saheb ( later Balaji Baji Rao ) and his sickly but brilliant brother Chimaji Appa.

Though not initially appointed to ministerial office, a brilliant Commons performance in March 1952 against Aneurin Bevan in a debate on health caught Churchill's attention, and six weeks later, on 7 May, Macleod was appointed Minister of Health.

The characteristic, brilliant red 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.

Although Ginias is quite brilliant and a kind military superior, he also clearly suffers some kind of illness as revealed later in the course of the series.

Regarded by some as a brilliant and innovative judge, he delivered a number of minority judgements, several of which were decades later adopted by High Court majorities.

During this period, Esber hired some of the most brilliant database engineers in the industry, including Dr. Moshe Zloof from IBM, Harry Wong, and Mike Benson ( who would later head Esber's efforts to rebuild a new dBASE ).

Three years later Thomas handed the duke a magnum opus, the manuscript of De Etruria Regali Libri Septem, " Seven Books about Royal Etruria ", in the Latin language, the first detailed study of every aspect of Etruscan civilization, considered a brilliant work.

Corelli later said of the decision, " I felt that my voice was a little tired, a little opaque, less brilliant than before.