éclat

Bruch’s Fantasy is devilishly difficult to perform, but like Beethoven’s concerto, its difficulty lies in the vulnerability it requires of the soloist more than in feats of technical éclat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

He was soigné, to use one of his favorite words, and he had éclat, to use another.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2022

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

She finds the vulnerable beauty of “Will He Like Me?,” she blows the lid off “Vanilla Ice Cream” and she handles the tricky letter-writing ditty “Dear Friend” with éclat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2020

How comes it then, that your husband triumphs in having the power of still visiting the gaming-tables, and betting with the utmost éclat?

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish

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

On its quiet campus, one of whose buildings is the College's original Main Hall, the celebration took place last week with fitting eclat.

From Time Magazine Archive

A new Roman Catholic Church had been erected at Oakville, which was to be consecrated and opened with much eclat on a Sunday.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland