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

After the War, Augustus John was an artist of great personal as well as esthetic eclat.

From Time Magazine Archive

I acquitted myself with much eclat, and a long and favourable criticism appeared in the papers afterwards.

From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

Few American artists of the 20th century arrived with quite his éclat.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2024

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

Indeed, that the 500th anniversary of Luther’s act has been noted without éclat in the United States may be something to celebrate.

From Time ● Oct. 30, 2017

Ann dropped the poker into the fender with some éclat and stood up and looked at her hot face in the glass.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells