Overbrilliant

Quick meaning: Overbrilliant is an adjective meaning Excessively brilliant.

Meaning

Excessively brilliant.

Example Sentences

We remained here quietly for an hour, when the stillness was broken by a slight stir in the water above, and looking in the direction we could barely discern two or more figures moving, by the aid of the not overbrilliant starlight.

Thanks to the mounting and the libretto of Captain Alfred Thompson, supplementing his own tuneful if not overbrilliant music, Mrs. Lillian Russell Solomon has scored a hit with Pepita, given for the first time at the Union-square theater this evening.

The next year his opera “Oprichnik” was accepted by the Petersburg Theatre; and Napravnik, the orchestra leader, asked him to make a few cuts and to alter the orchestration, which, he said, was too heavy and overbrilliant in places, so that it overwhelmed the singers and put them completely in the shade.

Lucy was certainly very fresh that morning ; she pawed the gravel, champed her bit, tossed her head, and looked ready for a race indeed. Not being an overbrilliant rider, I firmly refused my uncle’s invitation to mount the mare, and he took her himself. Aileen and Nora sprang into their saddles, and the phaeton, drawn by a couple of sturdy ponies, was left for Biddy, Oona, and myself.

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