Dick concluded his talk, but the brilliant beginning was not sustained.

Now there was a brilliant beginning, he thought, cursing his stupidity.

But the further course of the campaign did not correspond to this brilliant beginning.

I wonder if a presentiment was even then overclouding what seemed a brilliant beginning!

We do not need to envy Philip's brilliant beginning.

It was the death of a dream, a tragic finish in counterpoint to a brilliant beginning.

It was not a brilliant beginning, but he was late in the field, and most had purchased their evening papers.

A brilliant beginning may well have been condemned to the bottom drawer by this mild criticism from her well-meaning but uncreative husband.

So, as we have seen, the telephone as Bell invented it, was merely a brilliant beginning in the development of the art of telephony.

But he made the truth very comfortable, and gave a succinct statement of the young man's brilliant beginnings.

"Congratulate me," cried Don Carlos to his Prime Minister, his eyes sparkling, "on this brilliant beginning of Bonaparte's relations with Spain.