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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scintillate.

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Examples

  • It shines, pulsates and scintillates explaining from within.

    Locke Rush: Tumbling Through Life 2010

  • "Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers.

    'Greenberg': Losers' Winning Love Story Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • "Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers, while Stieg Larsson's pierced and piercing heroine makes for an indelible "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

    More Film Reviews 2010

  • "Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers, while Stieg Larsson's pierced and piercing heroine makes for an indelible "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

    More Film Reviews 2010

  • "Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers.

    'Greenberg': Losers' Winning Love Story Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • The result is vintage McGruder and vintage "Boondocks," in which the message can be exactly right and totally wrong from one joke to the next; McGruder scintillates a hard truth in one brilliant moment and then immolates the joke's value in the next moment with his own ample dousing of lighter fluid.

    Returning 'Boondocks' opens lens on era of hope and change. Meh. 2010

  • "Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers, while Stieg Larsson's pierced and piercing heroine makes for an indelible "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

    More Film Reviews 2010

  • "Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers, while Stieg Larsson's pierced and piercing heroine makes for an indelible "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

    More Film Reviews 2010

  • "Greenberg" scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers.

    'Greenberg': Losers' Winning Love Story Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • It scintillates against a starry night sky or cloudless blue with equal impact.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008

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