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

General de Gaulle represented France with unprecedented eclat and authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

And accordingly Constantine and cotemporary Christians celebrated the twenty-fifth of March with great eclat as the date of the resurrection.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

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

The iambic pentameter isn’t delivered with percussive éclat but spoken with conversational formality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2017

Now I remembered a line from Walt Whitman: “As I walk, solitary, unattended, around me I hear that éclat of the world.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2013

She didn’t create the financial bubble but she soared on it, profited from it, merged its fantasy of wealth and éclat with hers.

From Time ● Jul. 25, 2013

A band gives éclat to an out-door gathering and confers local importance upon it.

From Manners and Rules of Good Society or Solecisms to be Avoided by Anonymous