He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work--one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled.

She weighed Theresa's question carefully, aware that she was speaking in front of some of the brightest intellects on the planet.

Displaying a bright and precocious intellect he studied the Theory of Relativity as a boy and attended a lecture by Albert Einstein aged thirteen.

He was known for his bright intellect, his composure, and his innate courage.

Your bright intellect has grasped the idea, Hastings.

The brightest intellect in the land would not have been able to see that her position was defective.

In addition, Raba sometimes referred to his top student Abaye with the term Shvur Malka meaning "Shapur [the] King" because of his bright and quick intellect.

Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo called him la lumbrera intelectual de su siglo ("the brightest intellect of his age").

Foscolo has materialistic views about man's destiny after death, but he strongly affirms the value of tombs as memory of noble souls or bright intellects.

He faded quietly out of life on 15 October 1894, his intellect bright and clear to the last.