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scintillant

[sin-tl-uhnt] / ˈsɪn tl ənt /




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She had been in love with the scintillant young Count Eulenberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

Webern's scintillant, fractured Variations for Orchestra, was so full of bewitching sonorities that listeners were just becoming adjusted to it when it ended.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fundamentalist" speech* on evolution, so scintillant and persuasive that parts of it will still bear quoting: "What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance which to me is most astonishing?

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Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene.

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The twin yellow streams, scintillant, intersected, soaking me.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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