dazzle

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It takes someone who enjoys a little razzle-dazzle, a pinch of stardust.

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  1. transitive verb To dim the vision of, especially to blind with intense light.
  2. transitive verb To amaze, overwhelm, or bewilder with spectacular display: a figure skater who dazzled the audience with virtuosic jumps.
  3. intransitive verb To become blinded.
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  • Not by the patina of magic, not by that Hollywood flash and dazzle--but by a deeper, older, wilder magic, a subtlety of living things. —  EBSCOhost
  • What I wanted then was scientific verisimilitude and technological razzle-dazzle, a literal revelation of time to come, not magic. —  Magazine - Asimov's Science Fiction - 2007 - Issue 02 - February
  • It takes someone who enjoys a little razzle-dazzle, a pinch of stardust. —  Curbed
  • The time and place for razzle-dazzle is in the space created by dozens of shifts of committed effort and sacrifice -- the braun before the beauty. —  On Frozen Blog
  • These moments are often lost within the crowds and technological razzle-dazzle, but we've caught a few -- 16, specifically
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brilliant ·  radiant ·  vivid ·  glorious ·  wondrous ·  dim ·  heavenly ·  scarlet ·  sparkle ·  stun

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dazzle:   dazzling ·  dazzled ·  dazzles
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