Word: eclat
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...chosen envoy was William Pitt Amherst, Earl of Arakan and nephew of famed soldier of the King, Lord Jeffrey Amherst. In July 1816, William Amherst reached the North China coast. He was most hopeful, as his secretary later recorded, that "the eclat of an embassy from the Crown of England" would persuade "Oriental barbarism" to grant commercial privileges. But the high & mighty mandarins who escorted him ashore and inland to Peking soon demolished his hope...
...Renaissance overtones and technical eclat, Dali's canvas did no honor to its great subject. Compared with the religious paintings of such consistent moderns as Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse, Dali's was approximately as chill and shallow as a bent watch...
...Practice these obstacles spelled "studies" and "recommendations" handed down with little eclat from an ivory tower visible to the eyes of a handful of men. With the possible exceptions of '26 and the three-year spurt capped by Langdon Marvin in 1940, few Councils made themselves known to their constituents...
...time of Curley, and partisans of good government are afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
...Bartok was no artificer. He stood for all that was original and individual in music, all that was sincere and direct. . . . He wrote not for the public's hunger for sensualism and eclat. He wrote for himself, to satisfy an inner urge which said he must compose...