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- verb Present participle of
coruscate .
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Examples
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You pretty much can't use the adjective "coruscating" in our field without bringing to mind the Lensman, and all that implies for the world.
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Payne hits the ground running in the deceptively simple, inimitable style of Edgar Allen Poe meets Margaret Thatcher:When did you last come across the words "coruscating" or "magisterial"?
Archive 2004-08-01 2004
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The thin cord simply metamorphosed into a kind of coruscating brownness that transcended its lowly origins.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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The thin cord simply metamorphosed into a kind of coruscating brownness that transcended its lowly origins.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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What Mr. Calvert would have replied is no matter for this history, since at this precise moment the Rajah came in, "coruscating," as
A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893
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In the wake of the terrible loss depicted in the film, the loss of a child, Malick offers coruscating images to remind us of this indifference.
Rabbi David Wolpe: The Religious Meaning Of Malick's 'Tree of Life' Rabbi David Wolpe 2011
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Squeezing every ounce of emotion from the score, Nott placed the disputed Andante after rather than before the coruscating Scherzo, making its tragic, major-key simplicity all the more affecting.
CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review 2012
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What Born to Die isn't is the thing Lana Del Rey seems to think it is, which is a coruscating journey into the dark heart of a troubled soul.
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It turned out, however, that Barroso was on belligerent and coruscating form.
Eurozone crisis: European Union prepares for the 'great leap forward' 2011
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"They are picked for their coruscating wit, keen insights, deep knowl.. bah, she's on to me."28th over: England 110-3 Trott 50, Bopara 39 Another match, another fifty for Jonathan Trott.
kingrat47 commented on the word coruscating
Another word that, to me at least, communicates something of its meaning through its sound-I always picture the light playing along the word as the syllables roll out.
December 10, 2006
mollusque commented on the word coruscating
On thin ice.
December 1, 2007
lumbert40 commented on the word coruscating
Used by Herman Wouk in Marjorie Morningstar. "..shebegan to picture the adult camp as a coruscating evil wonderland bathed in a reddish glow." Webster's - to move quickly, glitter,to give off flashes of light; to sparkle, to glitter
April 3, 2009
AnandaP commented on the word coruscating
to emit vivid flashes of light; sparkle; scintillate; gleam
June 8, 2009
rbwager commented on the word coruscating
Main Entry:cor·us·cate
Pronunciation:\?ko?r-?-?sk?t, ?kär-\
Function:intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s):cor·us·cat·ed; cor·us·cat·ing
Etymology:Latin coruscatus, past participle of coruscare to flash
Date:1705
1 : to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes : sparkle
2 : to be brilliant or showy in technique or style
July 20, 2009