What's the difference between dazzling and resplendent?

Dazzling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dazzle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
  • (2) The dazzling Deulofeu was the instigator of the first.
  • (3) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
  • (4) In line with his modest and humble public image, Francis exhibits a strong taste for Italian neorealist cinema, which eschewed Hollywood razzle-dazzle and told morally powerful stories set among the working class.
  • (5) Police officers resigned and politicians were embarrassed as the scandal erupted, but Scotland Yard – with dazzling cynicism – has reacted by trying to silence the kind of police whistleblowers who helped to expose the failures of their leaders; and ambitious politicians continue to dine with Rupert Murdoch.
  • (6) The script and characters were brought together with great writing and meticulous research and the abundant oversimplification was entirely forgivable for the dazzling human drama.
  • (7) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
  • (8) However, when it came to the burning question of Trump Jr’s would-be dealings with Russia, the US president acted like an American in Paris who is high on champagne, dazzled by the sights and eager to get to dinner at the Eiffel Tower.
  • (9) As well as enhancing the author's fame and credibility, the meeting helped set Bowie's trajectory for the next few years – a series of dazzling physical and artistic changes that would not slow until the early 1980s.
  • (10) It is in two senses a dazzling work, which leaves the mind's eye scorched into strangeness.
  • (11) For the boy in ragged trousers, who had to struggle right up to the time De Wet removed him from the world of financial responsibility, money was dazzling.
  • (12) Dazzle glare resulting from the accumulation of cystine crystals in ocular tissue may account for glare disability seen in these patients and contribute to their complaints of photophobia.
  • (13) When I was a boy, people thought our technological limit was reached with the dazzling Flying Scotsman's train engine.
  • (14) World Cup fans were dazzled this summer by Howard’s performances in Brazil, which included a record-setting 16 saves in a second-round match the USA nonetheless lost, 2-1 in extra time, to Belgium.
  • (15) It's easy to see Bruckheimer as Hollywood's Simon Cowell , churning out hollow razzle-dazzle for the multiplex masses, most of it based on pre-existing properties.
  • (16) The British Retail Consortium said shops enjoyed a "dazzling" week before Christmas and the best month of sales since January last year, but it believes much of the sales surge was created by bargain hunting.
  • (17) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
  • (18) If the argument is that because she is an internationally renowned star, and, therefore, Madonna believes she deserved to be treated differently from other visiting foreigners, it is worth making her aware that Malawi has hosted many international stars, including Chuck Norris, Bono, David James, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville who have never demanded state attention or decorum despite their equally dazzling stature.
  • (19) If Hollande's Sunday rally was aimed at injecting some dazzle into what critics have called an unexciting campaign, the manifesto launch marked Hollande's return to the careful, number-crunching technocrat who ran the Socialist party for 11 years.
  • (20) He explained to his educated readers how these elaborate, glass-fronted, gas-lit buildings were “perfectly dazzling when contrasted with the darkness and dirt” of the street, thereby luring in many locals.

Resplendent


Definition:

  • (a.) Shining with brilliant luster; very bright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thomas brings Khalil and his forever-changed friend Starr back to life in resplendent color.
  • (2) There was the Cenotaph resplendent, spotlessly clean.
  • (3) With the headline "A very British revolution", the Times writes: In the May sunshine, on resplendent Downing Street lawns, an improbable lightness accompanied the serious business of turning Britain around.
  • (4) Now she only needed to wait, resplendent atop her chariot.
  • (5) On a clear day, the Firth of Clyde looks resplendent from here, basking “gaily in the sunny beam”.
  • (6) What appeared was Humphrey Carpenter, resplendent in an outrageous frock and an even more outrageous wig and make-up.
  • (7) In her wake will travel a flotilla of 1,000 boats decorated in streamers and flags, their crews resplendent in their finest rigs.
  • (8) A year-round destination, Yosemite is resplendent but often crowded in the summer; winter transforms the park into a quiet snowy paradise.
  • (9) The wall is resplendent with cartoons, including an excellent caricature of Trumpers smoking a cigar, drawn when she received her Oldie of the Year award from the Oldie magazine in 2012.
  • (10) Still a popular tourist destination for its literary connection, the child-friendly Spoon made its own headlines by adding grey squirrel to a menu already resplendent with braised pork leg and organic Arctic char.
  • (11) The truth seems to be that Haffey put his afternoon's experience down solely to the commanding resplendence of Haynes and his artful lieutenant Jimmy Greaves, who scored a hat-trick.
  • (12) Milan are resplendent in their gold number while Atlético are wearing their red and white stripes.
  • (13) Success is at our door, but it is not yet won.” Fabius, speaking in his resplendent office in France’s foreign ministry, was in ebullient mood.
  • (14) And up on stage, resplendent in silver Stetsons and zebra-striped rodeo suits, Los Tigres sing about the spectacular demise of Mexican drug smuggler Manuel Atillano.
  • (15) For Lizzie Armitstead this has been a heady spring, resplendent in the world champion’s rainbow stripes and notching up a hit-rate of victories that is astonishing, taken as a proportion of races started.
  • (16) Photograph: Alamy Seoul is an ancient city resplendent with Unesco-listed buildings.
  • (17) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
  • (18) Unlike the aforementioned Rosie, of course, who on Tuesday, wearing only her pants, was resplendent the entire length of the paper's front page, appearing again on Page 3, showing a nipple, as a lovely surprise.
  • (19) At times Mandela, in a trademark batik silk shirt, and his wife, resplendent in yellow, exchanged words and held hands like any elderly couple in the theatre stalls.
  • (20) The first photograph that McCullin had printed in the Observer was a 1958 picture of a north London gang called "The Guv'nors" – a group of teddy boys resplendent in their exaggerated, smart clothes, rising through and out of a bomb-damaged building.