Now these letters and emails come more often from the half-bright, some of them professional academics, than from the fully bonkers or barking.

BBC: A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness

You can tell the half-bright from the barking because the barking don't know how little they know, while the half-bright know enough to think that they know a lot, but don't know enough to know what part of what they know is actually worth knowing.

BBC: A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness

In the half-light, the proscenium glowed like a bright department-store window, which shadowy people behind it were dressing.

NEWYORKER: The Natural

Connacht made a bright start and fly-half Keatley put the underdogs ahead with an early penalty.

BBC: Munster 25-10 Connacht

After a bright start by the Pilgrims, Chris Hall netted a first-half brace for the visitors before Mark Haran's own goal in added time reduced arrears.

BBC: Boston's winning run ends at home

The French side could have made it through to the last eight with a bonus-point win, and they at least gave themselves a chance with a bright first half.

BBC: Sale 26-17 Clermont Auvergne