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• v  give off
• v  reflect brightly
• v  emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
• v  physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon
• v  be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
  A scintillating conversation
• s  brilliantly clever
  scintillating wit
  a play full of scintillating dialogue
• s  marked by high spirits or excitement
  scintillating personality
• s  having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
  the scintillating stars

• PTI has provided scintillating coverage of royal romances in the House of Windsor since the reign of Britain's George V and the scandal in the 1930's surrounding his son Edward .
• Since the discovery of his 3,300-year-old tomb 56 years ago last month, the boy pharaoh has enjoyed a scintillating afterlife in the vision, imagination and, it must be said .
• There is not a lot of scintillating dialogue in The Bank Job, but there are plenty of kinky sexual allusions and it includes a torture sequence about as brutal as anything .

• scintillate
• sparkle
• coruscate
• twinkle
• winkle
• bubbling
• effervescent
• frothy
• sparkly
• aglitter
• coruscant
• fulgid
• glinting
• glistering
• glittering
• glittery
• scintillant

News & Articles

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• WWE Payback 2013 Results: Winners, Twitter Reaction and Highlights
  WWE Payback isn't exactly the most noteworthy pay-per-view on the schedule, but the action in front of a raucous, lively Chicago crowd on Sunday was scintillating.  We had title defenses. We had title changes. We had some spectacular divas action—hey, look what happens when you give them 10 solid minutes to actually wrestle. We had unexpected results, controversial results and results that never ...
  June 17, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Match Preview: Spain Set to Take It Easy on Tahiti
  Well, that was rather easy. A match that the Spanish players may have expected to have come out battered and bruised and begging for the summer holidays to begin, turned out to be a fairly simple affair.  The 2-1 victory over Uruguay in the Confederations Cup saw La Seleccion sagging a little in the end due to fatigue but able to hang on to a lead built up by 75 minutes of scintillating, fizzy ...
  June 17, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Ranking Every King of the Ring Finals Match on PPV
  From 1993-2002, WWE held the King of the Ring pay-per-view every June, an event that featured a scintillating single-elimination tournament. To this day, the event evokes many memories. Bret Hart, Steve Austin and Brock Lesnar were all able to win the crown along with seven other men, some of whom launched their career to the next level by surviving the tournament. There were several great ...
  June 15, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• John Toshack in BBC News
  You normally have 22 players battling away out there, pretty evenly matched. This game saw 21 players and one who was just unbelievable,Toshack said. "It was a scintillating performance - I cannot recall the last time I saw such an...
• Harold Pinter in Rabble.ca
  It's a scintillating stratagem,says Harold Pinter, this year's winner of the Nobel prize for literature. "Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay."
• Zinzan Brooke in Stuff.co.nz
  England didn't really play that badly, but once the All Blacks found their stride, it's impossible not to sit back and admire them in full flow,wrote Brooke. "For the first 44 minutes, the All Blacks were scintillating. If they had...