What's the difference between coruscate and refulgent?

Coruscate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bafétimbi Gomis should have done better than head a mishit Sigurdsson shot into the side netting after the interval and was made to pay when Eriksen, after Alli had been fouled again in an identical area, cracked in his coruscating second goal.
  • (2) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
  • (3) My thoughts are with Jeremy’s family and friends as they try and come to terms with their loss.” Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader, said: “Jeremy Thorpe’s enforced resignation as leader of the Liberal party and his subsequent departure from parliament should not obscure the fact that in his day he was an outstanding parliamentarian with a coruscating wit, and a brilliant campaigner on the stump whose interest and warmth made him a firm favourite with the public.” • This article was amended on 5 December 2014 to attribute two paragraphs to Wikipedia.
  • (4) The earlier version used the word "coruscating" where "excoriating" was meant.
  • (5) Abbado has talked of the choral finale of the Second Symphony - the "Resurrection", Mahler's coruscating vision of spiritual rebirth - as a metaphor for his own musical experience.
  • (6) A long association with Hall began at the National Theatre in 1987, when he played a coruscating half-hour interrogation scene with Maggie Smith in Hall’s production of Coming in to Land by Poliakoff; he was a Dostoeyvskyan immigration officer, Smith a desperate, and despairing, Polish immigrant.
  • (7) A coruscating burst of fast-twitch fibres, a victory grin as wide as the Clyde and then a regal bow from the king of sprinting – Usain Bolt has tasted far greater glories than this, his first Commonwealth Games gold medal, but the way he celebrated Jamaica’s 4x100m relay title on a soggy night in Glasgow one would never have known.
  • (8) As Simon Goldhill has observed in his coruscating Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives (2004), they exhibited this aim first and foremost in their attitudes to the body.
  • (9) Initially, I wanted to write one to fully capture McCarthy's coruscating lilt – but Hillcoat didn't want it.
  • (10) Side-effects typical for 'specific bradycardic agents', such as coruscation were seen.
  • (11) Or the 2012 final, when Arjen Robben's knees rattled together so violently that for a while it was thought Lionel 'Hot Mallets' Hampton had risen from the dead to bang out one last particularly coruscating vibraphone solo.
  • (12) As the play ratcheted up to a coruscating finale, we, the audience, were made to see the enormous value of the rights we'd handed over as the mere cost of life in the 21st century (who, we were asked, had read the iTunes privacy policy?
  • (13) The best-case scenario manufactured by Australian bureaucrats would liken parts of China to resemble the planet Coruscant from the Star Wars movies (the political centre of the galaxy, whose surface is covered by an entire city).
  • (14) Yet all the momentum is with Brendan Rodgers's team after this epic, coruscating match in which they still had the competitive courage to record their 10th straight win despite the jolt of seeing a 2-0 half-time lead wiped out.
  • (15) He claimed that his television biography of Mark Twain was dropped by a nervous network because of Twain’s coruscating criticism of the American financial establishment.
  • (16) He had caused permanent damage to the latter’s reputation in responding to the dismissal of seven cabinet ministers in the 1962 Night of the Long Knives with an adaptation of the words of St John: “Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.” Thorpe’s idea of heaven was a reception or dinner, attended by the great and good, where his coruscating wit could be appreciated by the most powerful in the land, or, preferably, the most powerful in Europe or the world.

Refulgent


Definition:

  • (a.) Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Holland are favourites, primarily because of their inventive forward players – with Wesley Scheijder in refulgent form and brittle Arjen Robben and Robin Van Persie set to make a record two consecutive starts, the Uruguayan defence will surely be stretched ….
  • (2) And to re-read any of Lewis's accounts of travel - to Indo- china and India, to Burma, Latin America, Spain, Sicily or Indonesia - is to fall instantly under the spell of his subtle, refulgent musical magic.
  • (3) "If you've read my fantasy series, The Underland Chronicles, you will have a clue as to why I chose this photo," she writes, offering no help to any visiting Hunger Games fan who had imagined her refulgent in a flaming robe.
  • (4) It’s a once-glorious, now-dowdy thoroughfare with a few refulgent granite buildings surrounded by an excess of eyesores.

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