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.

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.

The players brought off rapid pianissimo passages with eclat, but in general they need to widen their range of sound.

So can a man who has procrastinated so long over an issue he admits is finely balanced really campaign for Leave with the deafening eclat that he has promised?

But he gave the audience what it came for and launched the new season with undeniable eclat.