She is not doing her most brilliant work in Poirot Loses A Client, but she has produced a much-better-than-average thriller nevertheless, and her plot has novelty, as it has sound mechanism, intriguing character types, and ingenuity.

Despite Lee's brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, Longstreet once again came under criticism, claiming that he could have marched his men back from Suffolk in time to join Lee.

After a somewhat hum-drum opening, Blackwood suddenly electrified the Edinburgh world by an outburst of brilliant criticism.

Their literary and speculative qualities are indeed exceptionally brilliant ; they are splendid in diction, elaborate in argument, cogent yet reverent, keen while fearless in criticism.

If Barack Obama had lived here I would be very surprised if even somebody as brilliant as him would have been able to break through the institutional stranglehold that there is on power within the Labour party. The comments gained support and criticism from members of ethnic communities in the UK.

This action was controversial at the time, the future Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, then a junior officer serving in the Delhi campaign would later call it a " blot " and criticized " an otherwise brilliant officer " for exposing himself to criticism.

Another great spin is an excerpt from a speech by Bulgarian communist leader Todor Zhivkov in which he says that now every day, anytime, anywhere, people have " stuff "-which Upsurt warps into a brilliant criticism of the prevalence of drug use in Sofia ’ s political and social elite.

This type of analysis paves the way for an important new Marxian criticism of Piero Sraffa's otherwise brilliant critique of capital theory.

French literature has been for French people an object of national pride for centuries, as it is one of the most brilliant and most influential components of the Western literature.

The particular work which provided the starting-point of an article was in many cases merely the occasion for the exposition, always brilliant and incisive, of the author's views on politics, social subjects, ethics or literature.

Sellar was one of the most brilliant of modern classical scholars, and was remarkably successful in his endeavours to reproduce the spirit rather than the letter of Roman literature.

Brown summed his career up thus: " He wrote little, but his articles on poetic form ... are brilliant formalist analyses of poetic language ... and he was probably the most articulate exponent in Lef of the theories of ' social demand ' and ' literature of fact.

Not just a brilliant historical work, it is an excellent historical literature and novel.

Although he later fabricated the history of a brilliant school career and middle-class background, Gance left school at the age of 14, and the love of literature and art which sustained him throughout his life was in part the result of self-education.

The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoyevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the " Golden Age " of Russian literature.

" He was brilliant, compassionate, had a wide-ranging mind with an expertise in everything from poetry, to mathematics, to music, to literature, to culture.

She was an associate of some of the wittiest and most brilliant men and women of literature that spent time at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan.

He was a brilliant writer, who would have been admired in any language, but whose appearance in a literature so stiff and dead as that of Holland in the fifties was dazzling enough to produce a sort of awe and stupefaction.

Reference to Oriental monks must here be limited to those who have left a mark upon ecclesiastical literature: Leontius of Byzantium ( d. 543 ), author of a treatise against the Nestorians and Eutychians ; St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, one of the most vigorous adversaries of the Monothelite heresy ( P. G., LXXXVII, 3147-4014 ); St. Maximus the Confessor, Abbot of Chrysopolis ( d. 662 ), the most brilliant representative of Byzantine monasticism in the seventh century ; in his writings and letters St. Maximus steadily combated the partisans of the erroneous doctrines of Monothelitism ( ibid., XC and XCI ); St. John Damascene, who may perhaps be included among the Basilians ; St Theodore the Studite ( d. 829 ), the defender of the veneration of sacred images ; his works include theological, ascetic, hagiographical, liturgical, and historical writings ( P. G., XCIX ).

We are thus presented with a view of the literature of the age which is much more characteristic and comprehensive than that given by the brilliant poet to whom we owe the Hamasah, and enables us to form a better judgment on the general level of poetic achievement.

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 ; ;

Although his arrogance had slowed the campaign, he was a brilliant general in the field, and his loss was a major blow to the allied campaign.

The Duke of Marlborough won a series of brilliant victories over the French, England's first major battlefield successes on the Continent since the Hundred Years War.

The entering class that year was one of the most brilliant of the nineteenth century and many of his classmates, such as Jean Jaurès and Henri Bergson would go on to become major figures in France's intellectual history.

A major theme in Amadeus is Mozart's repeated attempts to win over the aristocratic " public " with increasingly brilliant compositions, which are always frustrated either by Salieri or by the aristocracy's own inability to appreciate Mozart's genius.

" It is a major irony of the Vietnam War that our propaganda transformed this debacle into a brilliant victory.

He was a major contributor to the modern scientific theory of personality and a brilliant teacher who helped found treatment for mental illnesses.

* Duo brilliant in A major for violin, cello ( or viola ) and orchestra or piano, Op.

The character is subsequently depicted as a brilliant sociopath whose tactical genius and powerful charisma pose a major threat to humanity.

Yablochkov's demonstration of his brilliant arc lights at the 1878 Paris Exposition along the Avenue de l ' Opéra triggered a steep sell off of gas utility stocks. Yablochkov ’ s major invention was the first model of an arc lamp that eliminated the mechanical complexity of competing lights that required a regulator to manage the voltaic arc.

The official Blue Note website says of Brooks, " With a strong, smooth tone and an amazing flow of fresh ideas every time he soloed, tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks should have been a major jazz artist, but his legacy is confined to a series of dates that he did for Blue Note as a sideman and leader " and that he " was one of the most brilliant, if underrated, tenor saxophonists in modern jazz ".

His first major case is to investigate and eliminate the threat of Dr. Pyrus Goldfire, a brilliant scientist in the field of genetics and biology, known for his outright disrespect of professional ethics.

However, realizing that computers and technology play a major role in many investigations, the two recruit the help of Murray " Boz " Bozinsky ( Thom Bray ), a brilliant, but socially inept scientist and computer hacker whom they met while serving in the military.

The 18th century saw major developments and brilliant success, for the town and the spa.

The < em > solo </ em > viola part is written in D major instead of E flat major, and the instrument tuned a semitone sharper ( scordatura technique ), to give a more brilliant tone.

It is said that Jumla had collected an army of twenty-two thousand men to face the Gorkhalis, a force far superior to anything the Gorkhalis could put in the field at that time In the first major military operation itself Bhakti Thapa had demonstrated his exceptionally brilliant skill in launching a very successful operation under the most adverse condition that was sure to astonish anyone.

The book received major notices upon publication, including a review from New York Times Book Review which wrote that the novel was " brilliant and beautiful.

Sprague became a brilliant electrical genius and inventor, and was responsible for major developments in electric railways and electric elevators which were instrumental in the growth of U. S. cities in the later 19th and early 20th centuries.

Nicknamed the Black-Whites, Torpedo hasn't been a major force in Russian football since the days of Eduard Streltsov, the brilliant striker of the 1950s and 1960s, known as " the Russian Pele ".

He was a brilliant success, and played in other major cities to acclaim.

This Impromptu contains interesting hemiola effects, brilliant passagework as well as cross modulations that take this piece to keys not traditionally associated with F minor, such as A-flat minor ( for instance, in bar 111 ), C-flat major ( as in bar 142 ), and A major ( bar 165 ).

He proved to be a brilliant organizer and legislator, and turned the Order into a major force in the Crusader states.