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adjective

scintillating

brilliantly clever

In a sentence

Six example sentences with scintillating, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her scintillating dialog keeps the play alive, since almost nothing happens beyond four people talking in a kitchen.

    Literature

  • The keynote was scintillating for ten minutes, then dissolved into slides of numbers nobody in the hall could read.

    Business

  • Students crowded the seminar for his scintillating replies, which turned a dull objection into something worth arguing about.

    Philosophy

  • The screenplay is scintillating for an hour, every line landing, before the plot remembers it needs a chase.

    Movies

  • Her debate performance was scintillating, turning each attack into a joke and each joke into a policy point.

    Politics

  • The cross examination was scintillating, each question narrowing until the witness contradicted his own morning testimony.

    Law

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