scintillant

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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?

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness.

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In the kitty is a gleaming pearl, the scintillant colony of Hong Kong, which London is due to return to Peking in 1997.

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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.

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

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides