brilliancy
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Origin of brilliancy
First recorded in 1740–50; brilli(ant) + -ancy
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The first woman ever awarded the grandmaster title, the Georgian great still has game, capable of fashioning a long, grueling positional brilliancy.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2019
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
The only way this "brilliancy" will be less than another disaster would be for him to turn into a third-baseman to replace the washed-up David Wright.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2016
The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion’s justifying her coming so far alone.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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
Coward was to proceed in his many-faceted brilliancies, and when all three were firmly and separately established in fame, they were to "meet and act triumphantly together."
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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