Word: brilliant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...senior years--comes too late for many students. In the core economic theory and methodology courses in the first two years, students sit in large lecture halls. Applied econometrics, which teaches students crucial statistical research methods, consistently receives terrible CUE guide ratings. In spite of the presence of brilliant empirical researchers, the Department struggles to find an instructor for the course each year...
...senior year-comes too late for many students. In the core economic theory and methodology courses in the first two years, students sit in large lecture halls. Applied econometrics, which teaches students crucial statistical research methods, consistently receives terrible CUE guide ratings. In spite of the presence of brilliant empirical researchers, the Department struggles to find an instructor for the course each year...
...assigned Plath at about the same time I discovered Tori Amos, and, like many, I clung onto both of them like a die hard indie fan. But then, growing up, realizing we demanded odd things of love, our parents and our world, we tend to brush off these brilliant-brave complainers as if their long struggles with and against masculinity, motherhood and the other arrangements of modern life were nothing bigger than our own childhood naivetes...
...them aflame at the Prom. The "diverse" group of a prom queen, geek, jock, basket case and criminal in The Breakfast Club learned the warm, fuzzy lesson that they can all be friends despite their social differences. And of course there is the ultimate in teen popularity movies, the brilliant Clueless, which mercilessly satirized ultra-rich Valley Girls and the high school scene in one fell swoop...
...example of a movie that boasts fantastic scenes but which on the whole is not the most polished or cohesive product. The scene in which Max puts on his play--an adaptation of the gritty Al Pacino cop drama Serpico and a hard-boiled Vietnam epic--are comically brilliant, as is the montage that reveals all of Max's activities and the clever sequence in which Max and Blume play tricks on one another. But there is too much down time between these bits of inspired comedy, and the story suffers from its overall lack of purpose. However...