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

In the second offering of its premiere engagement in Los Angeles, the British National Theater performs with its usual eclat while somewhat scanting the poetic mood music of the play.

From Time Magazine Archive

By this political revolution, so favorable to the clergy, the bashful chiefs of the Christians, who hitherto had reigned only in secret and without eclat, sprung out of the dust, and became men of importance.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

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

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

I, too, heard the éclat of the world.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2013

It is of vital importance, both to me and yourself, to Allegra even, that I should put a period to my intimacy with Lord Byron, and that without éclat.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette