Somewhere offstage in the mid-1970's, Mr. Shepard became a writer of disciplined, consistent and coherent brilliance.

And to create as much consistent brilliance in another form?

Few rock groups can claim to have broken so much new territory, and maintain such consistent brilliance on record, as the Velvet Underground during their brief lifespan.

For the past five years, no one else has written about the current political dispensation with a brilliance more consistent, and a scorn more magnificent, than Sidney Blumenthal.

No-one else - without exception - comes close to the consistent brilliance of Pixar, and we're lucky to be living through a time when they're making films on a regular basis.

His consistent brilliance was recognized by tonight's crowd, which gave him a loud ovation when he was introduced as the game's top star.

The volume of the work is staggering by itself; that it is of consistent brilliance seems miraculous.

The lasting image from this round, played on hard and fast greens in intermittent sunshine but with consistent brilliance, will be of Norman pulling the ball out of the cup.

She often presented a vapid mask but Oakes saw the consistent brilliance in her work.

It's odd that we should expect consistent brilliance in any writer, even the most eminent.