NOUN
- the occurrence of a small flash or spark
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a sudden or striking display of brilliance
coruscations of great wit
How To Use coruscation In A Sentence
- The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind — for books upon this impatient continent had become simply material for the energy of collectors — were instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. The War in the Air
- One more coruscation, my dear Watson -- yet another brain-wave! Chennai
- Duchesse de Guermantes, for her part, took good care not to invite when it was her turn to entertain the Princess, but substituted for them without any abstract reasoning about Bonapartism the most brilliant coruscation of all the beauties, all the talents, all the celebrities, who, the exercise of some subtle sixth sense made her feel, would be acceptable to the niece of the Emperor even when they belonged actually to the Royal House. The Guermantes Way
- Barack Obama: a coruscation of rhetoric masking a lack of weight and balance. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Darken Rahl came closer, close enough that the pain of his spirit coruscation was almost enough to make Richard back away. Temple of the Winds
- A single blue and single red spasm of coruscation flickered on either side of the dragon.
- The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
- What part of her father may have been human in form was entirely obscured by the coruscations of white light which, whether by accident or design, accompanied him.
- Why, on the outside cover were printed every month the words of one of the world's great writers, words proclaiming the inspired mission of the TRANSCONTINENTAL by a star of literature whose first coruscations had appeared inside those self-same covers. Chapter 25
- The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.