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scintillant

[sin-tl-uhnt] / ˈsɪn tl ənt /




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Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness.

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.

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For a generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies.

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She made her coronation the first in a lifetime of scintillant spectacles, visual manifestations of her rule.

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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