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Example sentences for "brilliant success"

  • As we have seen, Sir Arthur Wellesley opened the campaign with a brilliant success, and then prepared to strike at the heart of the French power.

  • In the early part of 1806 Napoleon might flatter himself with his brilliant success as a match-maker.

  • But Nelson's brilliant success at Copenhagen and the murder of the Czar by a palace conspiracy shattered this league only four months after its formation, and the new Czar, Alexander, reverted for a time to friendship with England.

  • Symphony, can play parts by heart, 18; can reckon on a brilliant success, 18.

  • You must yourself know how surely you can reckon on a brilliant success and on the admiration and warmest sympathy of every musician.

  • In short, the opera really had a brilliant success; far greater than that achieved by Eugene Oniegin in Petersburg.

  • The scenery and costumes were rather old, for the authorities did not care to risk the expense of a very luxurious setting for a new work by a composer whose name was not as yet a guarantee for a brilliant success.

  • The opera, judging from the accounts of those present, had a brilliant success, and the composer was repeatedly recalled.

  • For three weeks Fiovaranti had been achieving a brilliant success in "Les Huguenots.

  • Illustration: Fiovaranti had been achieving a brilliant success in "Les Huguenots.

  • Rigoletto was a brilliant success in London; indeed, of three operatic novelties which Mr. Gye produced in that season, it was the only one that proved attractive or profitable.

  • From all accounts it was an excellent scheme, and came very near being a brilliant success.

  • It will be either a dismal failure or brilliant success, and much at this belated hour must depend upon the floods.

  • But the action, which was tactically a brilliant success, had cost us a third of our force.

  • What a brilliant success might be expected, from the lively interest of the Munich public in all matters theatrical, if a man of Mozart's genius were to devote himself to German opera!

  • The result was in every respect a brilliant success.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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