scintillant

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Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

To cinemaddicts he was a slickly turned-out young man of the world whose scintillant wisecracks regularly wowed Joan Crawford.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides