brilliant

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In “Doc Martin,” Clunes played a brilliant London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and becomes a general practitioner in the Cornwall fishing village where he spent summers as a child.

From Los Angeles Times

What began as an idea when one person got rained on became a simple and brilliant invention that would reach billions of people.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ellison labored for decades on a second novel—published posthumously in 1999 as “Juneteenth”—and also wrote two brilliant essay collections.

From The Wall Street Journal

Irving was a schmaltzy genius, and his depiction of Columbus as “a brilliant visionary, ahead of his time” was exactly how Americans were beginning to view their own country.

From The Wall Street Journal

Little wonder psychotherapist Philippa Perry once joked that the whole bucket-list thing must have been devised “as a brilliant PR stunt by somebody who was selling swimming with dolphins.”

From MarketWatch