Particularly brilliant scholars, athletes and youth group leaders must be handled in either one of these two ways.

The young man was a brilliant scholar but an obvious homosexual.

Melissa was head girl, which we knew, and a brilliant scholar.

"For once I am able to correct the brilliant scholar," he said.

She is also such a brilliant scholar that teachers usually forgive her.

The school has produced some brilliant scholars over the years.

You are a brilliant scholar, and have done great good in the world.

He was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age.

He's clearly one of the most brilliant scholars ever born.

Though he never finished a major work, he was a brilliant scholar who had a strong influence on others.