eclat

Example Sentences

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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

General de Gaulle represented France with unprecedented eclat and authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

This has been copied by Plautus, and from him by Moliere in his Amphitrion— “Tous les discours sont des sottises Partant d’un homme sans eclat; Ce seroient paroles exquisses, Si c’etoit un grand qui parlàt.”

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John