Susan Jaffe danced the leading role with true regality, remaining always secure in its grueling passages of brilliant turns.

The result, by turns bracing, brilliant and vile, is a screen style as audacious as Mr. Burroughs's is on the page.

His organ works are by turns dreamy, playful and brilliant; the Toccata from the Suite is one of the most difficult pieces ever written for the instrument.

It was a brilliant turn for a masterful actor.

Indeed, the 33-year-old Mr. Lane has received rave reviews for his brilliant comic turn.

Ms. Whelan enters as a technical wonder (brilliant turns and strong attack) with a spiritual side.

But Ms. Bernhard, who is 45, now finds herself in a strange place, in part because of her brilliant turn at the fashion awards show.

This actor can play devious, as his brilliant turn in "The Color of Money" showed early in his career.

This is high school, where you have that guard for another two seasons following his assumed brilliant turn with the JV.

Dr. Floyd is a remarkable bird, at turns brilliant and drastic, deft and daft, savvy about human nature and bewildered by it.