Halleck described it as the most brilliant of the war.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

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.

And in a series of bitterly fought battles in the jungles and hills and along the great rivers of Burma he waged one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war.

" GM Robert Byrne called him " perhaps the most brilliant theoretician and teacher in the history of the game.

Between 1810 and 1813 at Bologna, Rome, Venice and Milan, Rossini produced operas of varying success, most notably La pietra del paragone and Il signor Bruschino, with its brilliant and unique overture.

brighter than the most brilliant lightning.

Noted psychologist William James called the studies “ heroic ” and said that they were “ the single most brilliant investigation in the history of psychology ”.

" Rob Reiner said, " He was a completely unique actor ," and went on to say that Falk's work with Alan Arkin in The In-Laws was " one of the most brilliant comedy pairings we've seen on screen.

It was the most popular double reed instrument of the renaissance period ; it was commonly used in the streets with drums and trumpets because of its brilliant, piercing, and often deafening sound.

The debarkation of the troops at Abukir, in the face of strenuous opposition, is justly ranked among the most daring and brilliant exploits of the British army.

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.

During production the only phrase Gould objected to was a line in the script that introduced him as the " world's most brilliant paleontologist ".

Time magazine called it " Sondheim's most brilliant accomplishment to date.

" The Comics Journal has described Aragonés as " one of the most prolific and brilliant cartoonists of his generation.

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.

Unlike his predecessors, who had rarely stayed long in Anjou, René from 1443 onwards paid long visits to it, and his court at Angers became one of the most brilliant in the kingdom of France.

This can be most spectacular in B. prionotes ( Acorn Banksia ) and related species, as the white inflorescence in bud becomes a brilliant orange.

" 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.

Eisenhower revealed his reasoning in a 1946 review of the book Patton and his Third Army: " George Patton was the most brilliant commander of an army in the open field that our or any other service produced.

Japonism, an artistic movement inspired by the Orient with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec as its most brilliant disciple, is at its height.

" Public accommodations " include most places of lodging ( such as inns and hotels ), recreation, transportation, education, and dining, along with stores, care providers, and places of public displays, among other things.

The Heraklion Archaeological Museum displays most of the archaeological finds of the Minoan era.

One of the most public displays of their strained relationship appeared during the Salem Witch Trials.

Computer displays in which the positions of individual pixels are permanently fixed by the design of the hardware — such as most modern flat panel displays — can show saw-tooth edges when displaying small, high-contrast graphic elements such as text.

In some areas, particularly in Sussex, there are extensive processions, large bonfires and firework displays organised by local bonfire societies, the most elaborate of which take place in Lewes.

A person who is hypnotized displays certain unusual characteristics and propensities, compared with a non-hypnotized subject, most notably hyper-suggestibility, which some authorities have considered a sine qua non of hypnosis.

The subsystem products were manufactured in Kingston ( displays and controllers ), Endicott ( printers ), and Greenock, Scotland, UK, ( most products ) and shipped to users in U. S. and worldwide.

They are common in consumer devices such as video players, gaming devices, clocks, watches, calculators, and telephones, and have replaced cathode ray tube ( CRT ) displays in most applications.

This implementation is most popular on professional graphics editing LCD displays.

The color resolution of the human eye depends on both the range of colors being sliced and the number of slices ; but for most common displays the limit is about 28-bit color.

:* Polymer properties, synthesis, and characterization, for a specialized understanding of how polymers behave, how they are made, and how they are characterized ; exciting applications of polymers include liquid crystal displays ( LCDs, the displays found in most cell phones, cameras, and iPods ), novel photovoltaic devices based on semiconductor polymers ( which, unlike the traditional silicon solar panels, are flexible and cheap to manufacture, albeit with lower efficiency ), and membranes for room-temperature fuel cells ( as proton exchange membranes ) and filtration systems in the environmental and biomedical fields

The new Top Sites also displays the most frequently visited and / or bookmarked sites in a panorama view, allowing the user to easily access their favorite sites along with a new Cover Flow view for the user's browsing history.

The fact that the crests vary so much rules out most practical functions other than for use in mating displays.

Wolf number sunspot index displays various periods, the most prominent of which is at about 11 years in the mean.

Though most of the pattern is removed from PAL and NTSC-encoded signals with a comb filter ( designed to segregate the two signals where the luma spectrum may overlap into the spectral space used by the chroma ) by modern displays, some can still be left in certain parts of the picture.

The same colour scheme was used by Viktor Vasnetsov for the façade of the Tretyakov Gallery, in which some of the most famous St. George icons are exhibited and which displays St. George as the coat of arms of Moscow over its entrance.

* PTC thermistors were used as timers in the degaussing coil circuit of most CRT displays.

Punched card readers and fast printers replaced teleprinters for most purposes, but teleprinters continued to be used as interactive time-sharing terminals until video displays became widely available in the late 1970s.

... by universal consent it was one of the grandest displays and most able financial statement that ever was heard in the House of Commons ; a great scheme, boldly, skilfully, and honestly devised, disdaining popular clamour and pressure from without, and the execution of it absolute perfection.

Therefore, for most Muslims, the best artwork that can be created by man for use in the Mosque is artwork that displays the underlying order and unity of nature.

The Slovenian countryside displays a variety of disguised groups and individual characters among which the most popular and characteristic is the Kurent ( plural: Kurenti ), a monstrous and demon-like, but fluffy figure.

They are among the most impressive remains of the Roman empire at its height, and many of them are still used for public displays and performances.