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Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

His economy is as brilliant as a Simenon sentence.

To justify being twice the price of a second competitor, the Eco kettle, it looks as brilliant as a Dyson and has a built-in water filter.

"Mischief," directed by Sue Buckmaster and choreographed by Mr. Pita, is good without being quite as brilliant as a few breathless British reviews suggested when it was commissioned by Sadler's Wells Theater in 2007.

That's how you end up with something as brilliant as a character called Dex Dexter, whose sole defining feature was that he always delivered his lines standing at a 45-degree angle to his scene partner.

And when Shirley May France, as she was then known, arrived in Europe, The London Star reported: "Tawny hair as glamorous as a film star's swept her white fox fur collar, and she flashed a smile as brilliant as a toothpaste advertisement at the crowds".

Her explanation of the mysteries of phenomenology, clear and succinct, is as brilliant as any I've heard in a French university classroom.

I had placed so much stock in belonging to the only species that could think up something as brilliant as ripping a leaf to attract a sexual partner.

Russell Westbrook has been as brilliant as ever, averaging a career-high in assists while maintaining his scoring.

In his own way he's every bit as brilliant as Larkin, but a million times funnier.

It's a commonplace (at least in academia) that literary history is a kind of detective work, but only an academic as brilliant as Nabokov could possibly construct a compelling novel around a dreadful poet.

It tells you everything you need to know about the original Blade Runner that even a director as brilliant as Denis Villeneuve can't deliver a sequel that holds a candle to its predecessor.