scintillant

Example Sentences

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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.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shortly thereafter came scintillant Cecelia Gertrude Shere, waving dark locks, out of the West in quest of fame.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides