What is "scintillating"

Usage examples of "scintillating".

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.

You are aware, since you sent her, that Carol Endermann spent the last weekend in Centennial advising me of your gratification that the work was going so well and of your disappointment that I was sending you too few scintillating quotes and summary generalizations.

Seti had crossed the border into Goshen at daybreak and was now well into the grazing-lands, yet scintillating with the rain.

Warder, growling savagely, went along the back wall of the hut, and, despite the semi-darkness, his eyes scintillating with menace through the cracks drove from them a crouching figure who turned hastily to grip the axe near the myall logs.

With each scintillating whimper from the back of her throat, each angelic flutter of her kiss, each delicious tremble of her body against his hands, he was seduced himself.

In an eye blink it became a broad annulus of scintillating light around a disk of blackness now bespecked with stars.

Gold Ambon moved to the ramp and drew her into the scintillating folds of his robe as if to shield her from all harm.

This peace-lulled, beguiling, sea, teeming with myriad forms scintillating on the verge of nothingness--obscure, elusive, yet mighty in their wayward way--soothed with never so gentle, so dulcet a swaying.

One day they threw the ram field constriction wide open, andin free fall, protected from the oncoming gamma rays by the scintillating dome of the inner ram fieldthey moved the radon bombs back to their nests in the weapons pod.

It occurs to me, as I peel back the scented strip to whiff Trekker, that these magazine ads, scintillating as they are, would drive a bear insane.

It lay dimpling and scintillating beneath the noonday sun, as entirely unspoilt as fifteen years ago, when its pure loveliness was known only to trappers and Indians.

The tone-poems of Debussy and the ballets of Ravel and Strawinsky, the scintillating orchestral compositions of Strauss and Rimsky and Bloch, could scarcely have come to be had not Berlioz called the attention of the world to the instruments in which the colors and timbres in which it is steeped, lie dormant.

She opened it and saw a set of earclips hung with scintillating diamonds inside.

Merlain, her red-copper hair and green eyes making her very witchlike, held a large ball of scintillating colors in her two cupped hands.

He loved being here all alone in the enormous engine room with the echoes of tremendous energy fluxes scintillating around him.