Effulgent

My "Sunday-best" word is "effulgent" - I use it socially by saying to a lady I am meeting for the first time: "You look effulgent tonight!" ❋ Hubert Van Den Bergh (2012)

My inner Spike fangirl is squeeing because David said "effulgent" as if it were a perfectly ordinary word. ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

So am I the only here who doesn't know what "effulgent" means? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Betting the knight, his money on the armor, the intricate chain mail like wire net or metal scrim, being's effulgent Maginot line, his stake on the weighted mace and plate mittens, on the hinged couters and poleyns, on vambrace and cuisee and greave, banging the breast-plate and all the jewelry of battle for timbre and pitch like a jerk slamming doors and kicking tires in a used car lot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One can always count on Elkin to take figurative language to comedic excess ( "being's effulgent Maginot Line"), demonstrating both his own mastery of the technique and his inability to employ it with a straight face. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I catch just one gaze on your effulgent expression, that slight lean of the head, and I see Botticelli's Aphrodite, that same mask of immaculateness beaming like a morning. ❋ Michael Parker (2011)

Just as we experience space surrounding ourselves and the planets and the stars in our Universe, so the limitless and effulgent sky of Brahman extends everywhere without limitation, constituting and encompassing everything. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

The two younger men found a fishing boat that was lying on the pebbles, and tried to row it out over the effulgent firefly soup of the lake. ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)

These are the choices available to your true self: the empty Transcendental (Nirvana), the effulgent light of eternity (Brahman), and the eternal realms of beauty and love (Vaikuntha Loka). ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

When the time came, Shri Krishna appeared standing and effulgent in his Bhagavan form and told his parents that the Supreme Being had just appeared as their baby son. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

Knowing this and chanting the mantra aum, the atma can graduate from the material University, reenter the effulgent Brahman atmosphere, and then merge into Its Nature which, it turns out, is identical with our own. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

You are now the same in essence as the effulgent divines whose sacred forms you adore in mystic meditation. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

From out of her corpulence, rose an effulgent girl in purple, spinning and spinning with brown hair. ❋ Nina Alvarez (2010)

She looked effulgent [descending] the [staircase] in white lace. On of the adjectives favored by Spike in his poetry (see [Buffy the Vampire Slayer]). ❋ Pauline Reage (2009)

'Inspired by your [beauty] effulgent.' ❋ Allison (2005)

effulgence always includes a fully [intact] [rote] [memory]. ❋ Type O (2014)