éclat

Ford ends his appreciation with éclat, holding up the famous opening paragraphs of Great Expectations as the work of a “master stylist”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2020

She finds the vulnerable beauty of “Will He Like Me?,” she blows the lid off “Vanilla Ice Cream” and she handles the tricky letter-writing ditty “Dear Friend” with éclat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2020

Nonetheless, France did manage a few moments of éclat et élan in that semifinal, and none were more breathtaking than Kylian Mbappé’s backheel.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2018

I also heard the éclat of my calf-high winter boots, crunching on icy sidewalks.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2013

Challemel also wishes me to go, says a woman gives more éclat to an Embassy.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

This was one of his regularly misfiring tricks, but today, miracle of miracles, he performed it with such adroitness and eclat that he couldn't think of any reason not to go on living.

From BBC ● May 23, 2020

There was great rejoicing over the event at Scranton, Pennsylvania, where cannon, bells and whistles of locomotives were employed to give eclat to the occasion.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2019

Dolley’s eclat served Madison well; he may have been a raconteur at his own dinner table, but social skills eluded him outside the doors of Montpelier or the White House.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2015

After the War, Augustus John was an artist of great personal as well as esthetic eclat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two men figured in the "Ohio raid" and the subsequent treatment of the raiders, with a peculiar eclat.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke