scintillating

adjective scin·til·lat·ing \ ˈsin-tə-ˌlā-tiŋ \

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Definition of scintillating

: brilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty

a scintillating conversation

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Recent Examples of scintillating from the Web

The Star-Telegram posed this question in a scintillating please-click-here headline: Will Rangers' development plan affect how Beltre, Andrus plan their futures?

— jeff wilson, star-telegram, "Rangers Reaction: Is Choo playing his way onto the trading block?," 8 June 2018
To be clear, the 22-minute episodes aren’t entirely scintillating, and feature reality-TV-standard scenes of stilted dinner-table confrontations and backstage backbiting.

— spencer kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Pose and the Uncapturable Brilliance of the Ballroom," 7 June 2018
The hall’s notoriously dry acoustics have been improved immensely, prompting yet another lean, swift, scintillating reading of the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4.

— david patrick stearns, Philly.com, "Philadelphia Orchestra plays Tel Aviv in its second of three shows in Israel," 4 June 2018
In January 2019, the Pražák and Zemlinsky quartets will join forces for Mendelssohn’s scintillating Octet for Strings, as well as sextets by Erwin Schulhoff and Antonín Dvořák.

— patrick neas, kansascity, "Friends of Chamber Music announce a ‘Transcendant’ 2018-19 season," 2 June 2018
This scintillating finish offered a vivid reminder: Too many good courses end with ordinary par-4s.

— ron kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, "In praise of finishing par-5s after Lydia Ko’s Sunday at Lake Merced," 3 May 2018
Against Roma, his former employers, the Egyptian was scintillating, putting Liverpool on the brink of the final and putting on a show that will be talked about by the Liverpool faithful for generations to come.

— aimee lewis, CNN, "Is Mo Salah the best player in the world?," 25 Apr. 2018
Rory McIlroy arrives in search of the career grand slam after a scintillating final-round 64 at Bay Hill.

— teddy greenstein, chicagotribune.com, "With Tiger Woods roaring, the ‘most anticipated' Masters is upon us," 30 Mar. 2018
Salah, Mane and Firmino have terrorized opposition defenses, both domestically and in Europe, all season, playing a scintillating brand of attacking football that has drawn praise from all over the world.

— CNN, "Real Madrid face Liverpool for historic third straight Champions League title," 25 May 2018

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