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scintillant

[sin-tl-uhnt] / ˈsɪn tl ənt /




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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

In the kitty is a gleaming pearl, the scintillant colony of Hong Kong, which London is due to return to Peking in 1997.

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

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?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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