brilliancy
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Origin of brilliancy
First recorded in 1740–50; brilli(ant) + -ancy
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Like many of Capablanca’s best wins, there’s no spectacular brilliancy here, but a world-class opponent is still rendered helpless in less than 30 moves.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
And that was, I think, really the brilliancy of the film.
From Fox News ● Nov. 19, 2019
At a dinner party, she shines with the “revolving brilliancy that collective approval always struck from her.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
“Europeans coming to America are surprised by the brilliancy of our autumnal foliage,” the proud Yankee bragged.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011
Far out in the harbor, tea clotted the brilliancy of sun upon the water.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Some of the film’s brilliancies are purely decorative.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
I wanted instant brilliancies; refused to do the slog of reading books, and saw chess as an art not a science.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2016
They win more by avoiding errors than with brilliancies, as in the diagramed deal from the match against Estonia.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2010
Instead of going through a radio bulb, they go through an arc light whose brilliancies they modify according to the varying transparencies of the sending film.
From Time Magazine Archive
It took no little time to shed these disagreeable impressions, even once the brilliancies of the symphony were cast up around me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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