His right hand, no longer encumbered by a gauntlet, drew a revolver to take steady aim along the brilliant passage.

No less a critic than the severe Hazlitt was satisfied that "his works consist only of brilliant passages."

He often connects many musical themes in brilliant passages of virtuosity.

While playing brilliant passages, Thalberg simultaneously executed a singing melody.

Although Night Thoughts is long and disconnected, it abounds in brilliant isolated passages.

There are some brilliant passages, notably for four splendid street musicians, full of verve in their angular shapes.

Of jazz making a brilliant passage into hippie music.

It's a brilliant passage of musical criticism, which left me wishing that Isacoff had concentrated his book on the subject he knows best.

"It is studded with brilliant and illuminating passages," John Brooks said here.

Written in an unconventional way, without the usual brilliant passages, this work achieved quite new, unusual sound qualities.