éclat

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

From New York Times ● May 4, 2024

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

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

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2013

Here he was received, according to his own account, which there is no reason to question, with the greatest enthusiasm and éclat.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

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

The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thumbelina, the little maid, threw open the door of number seven with eclat.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence