scintillating performance
a fantastic performance
TRANSLATION
1,360,000 Google hits --- scintillating = funkelnd, brillant to scintillate = funkeln, glitzern, brillieren (in einer Aufführung, Diskussion) scintillating performance = glänzende Darbietung scintillating wit = sprühender Geist
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
England produce a SCINTILLATING PERFORMANCE at Twickenham to record a deserved record-breaking 35-18 victory over Australia.
BBC Sport
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Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit had audience eating out of her hands when she gave a SCINTILLATING PERFORMANCE in songs like Choli Ke Peeche...
India Times
BBC Sport
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Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit had audience eating out of her hands when she gave a SCINTILLATING PERFORMANCE in songs like Choli Ke Peeche...
India Times
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scintillate (verb)
1. be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity "The musical performance sparkled","A scintillating conversation".
2. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
3. reflect brightly "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
4. give off "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
5. (physics) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon "the phosphor fluoresced"
scintillation (noun), scintillating (adjective)
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ORIGIN
1620s, from Latin scintillatus, past participle of scintillare "to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash," from scintilla "spark"
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USAGE
Scintillate is a clever-sounding, upper-level word well loved by advanced practitioners of English. You'll find it most commonly used in the adjective-form, for example when describing an outstanding sporting, musical, or theatrical performance.
Anyone can say: "That was a 'wonderful', or 'fantastic', or 'shining' performance; but 'scintillating' provides just a little bit more sparkle.
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IN LITERATURE
Light, everywhere light; scintillating, dancing, swinging light!
"The Lure of the Mask" by Harold MacGrath
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The most brilliant thing in the room was that wonderful jewel, glowing and scintillating like blood-red fire.
"The Paternoster Ruby" by Charles Edmonds Walk
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IN POETRY
Let me gaze upon the sunshine as it breaks upon the mist,
As it bathes the stony mountains that the clouds have lately kissed,
As it tips the dripping leaflet with a scintillating gem,
Like the far-resplendent treasure in a monarch's diadem.
"The Summer Shower" by Lennox Amott
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IN THE PRESS
LONDON, England, August 31 Another day, another assault on the world records at the 2012 Paralympics, including scintillating performances by Jessica Long and Andre Brasil.
swimmingworldmagazine.com
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Even for lawyers, the Federal Register is not the most scintillating read.
americanlawyer.com
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SYNONYMS for scintillating
bright, stimulating, brilliant, dazzling, exciting, lively, sparkling, animated, glittering, shining, inspiring
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ANTONYMS
boring, dull, blah, so-so, disappointing
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation:
"The chairman's end-of-year speech was not the most scintillating that I have ever heard."
1. be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity "The musical performance sparkled","A scintillating conversation".
2. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
3. reflect brightly "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
4. give off "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
5. (physics) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon "the phosphor fluoresced"
scintillation (noun), scintillating (adjective)
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ORIGIN
1620s, from Latin scintillatus, past participle of scintillare "to sparkle, glitter, gleam, flash," from scintilla "spark"
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USAGE
Scintillate is a clever-sounding, upper-level word well loved by advanced practitioners of English. You'll find it most commonly used in the adjective-form, for example when describing an outstanding sporting, musical, or theatrical performance.
Anyone can say: "That was a 'wonderful', or 'fantastic', or 'shining' performance; but 'scintillating' provides just a little bit more sparkle.
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IN LITERATURE
Light, everywhere light; scintillating, dancing, swinging light!
"The Lure of the Mask" by Harold MacGrath
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The most brilliant thing in the room was that wonderful jewel, glowing and scintillating like blood-red fire.
"The Paternoster Ruby" by Charles Edmonds Walk
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IN POETRY
Let me gaze upon the sunshine as it breaks upon the mist,
As it bathes the stony mountains that the clouds have lately kissed,
As it tips the dripping leaflet with a scintillating gem,
Like the far-resplendent treasure in a monarch's diadem.
"The Summer Shower" by Lennox Amott
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IN THE PRESS
LONDON, England, August 31 Another day, another assault on the world records at the 2012 Paralympics, including scintillating performances by Jessica Long and Andre Brasil.
swimmingworldmagazine.com
---
Even for lawyers, the Federal Register is not the most scintillating read.
americanlawyer.com
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SYNONYMS for scintillating
bright, stimulating, brilliant, dazzling, exciting, lively, sparkling, animated, glittering, shining, inspiring
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ANTONYMS
boring, dull, blah, so-so, disappointing
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation:
"The chairman's end-of-year speech was not the most scintillating that I have ever heard."
