scintillant

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For a generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Webern's scintillant, fractured Variations for Orchestra, was so full of bewitching sonorities that listeners were just becoming adjusted to it when it ended.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fundamentalist" speech* on evolution, so scintillant and persuasive that parts of it will still bear quoting: "What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance which to me is most astonishing?

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She had been in love with the scintillant young Count Eulenberg.

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The twin yellow streams, scintillant, intersected, soaking me.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides