eclat

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

Last week the drums were beating as, with much eclat, bright and chirpy Barbara Porritt stepped ashore at Melbourne.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thumbelina, the little maid, threw open the door of number seven with eclat.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

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

The iambic pentameter isn’t delivered with percussive éclat but spoken with conversational formality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2017

Now I remembered a line from Walt Whitman: “As I walk, solitary, unattended, around me I hear that éclat of the world.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2013

Nor was it so long after that event they were recommenced, and carried on with greater éclat than ever.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid