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

They stood side by side, equals and friends and newsmakers, the aspirant to a jumbo settlement and the journalist turned dispenser of social eclat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eclat, however, was not kept up by any thing on the part of General Washington.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

When one hospital resident ruefully muses that “Heaven’ll be the same as Heathrow. There’ll be a VIP lounge,” the economic lunacy of our age is skewered with droll éclat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2018

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

I, too, heard the éclat of the world.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2013

Ross was present to add shy éclat to the opening weekend.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2013

Suppose you're married; grand ceremonial, great éclat, delighted friends and relatives, handsome presents, diamonds and all—he'd do the thing well—honeymoon, say, the Riviera—limit, three months—what next?

From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by Wells, David Dwight