éclat

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

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

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2013

It was hard that, after the éclat of such a beginning, our engagement should have continued on commonplace lines, but so it did.

From A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 by Florence Warden

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

Two men figured in the "Ohio raid" and the subsequent treatment of the raiders, with a peculiar eclat.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke