Fulgent

 He told of the wilting heat, the fulgent landscape, the people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These from the scabrous canvas of fulgent wastrels and transcendental madmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.” ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2008)

OK I've been known to drop ambivalent, but I have never said fulgent or supercilious! ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2008)

Uncharacteristically, he summoned his imagination instead, painting an ecstatic vision of the village under a fulgent canopy of stars and a crescent moon. ❋ Mary Tompkins Lewis (2008)

Dum vaga passim sidera fulgent, numerat longas tetricus horas, et sollicito nixus cubito suspirando viscera rumpit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In her good - tempered moments, is it not as full of lazy softness as in her brief fits of anger it is fulgent with quick-flashing fire? ❋ Unknown (2004)

The world had lost all form and definition; solid color without shadow or shape spilled across the landscape in two hues: blue, rich, vibrant, startling blue sky unbroken by a single wisp of cloud; and white, blinding white snow reflecting a fulgent late morning sun. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)

There was a light in her eyes, akin to the one seen in that moment just before a fulgent sun crosses the eastern horizon. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1983)

A white brooch of [1] silvered bronze or of [1] white silver incrusted with burnished gold over his fair white breast, as if it were a full-fulgent lantern that eyes of men could not behold [LL. fo.79a.] for its resplendence and crystal shining. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

One would say they had spilled over the mountain rim from the fulgent San Joaquin. ❋ Unknown (1908)

The club was within fifty feet of the lagoon, close to the steamship quay, its broad verandas overlooking the fulgent reef and the quiet waters within it. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

It is as if the face of the moon had been hidden behind a cloud which the goddess suddenly draws aside and shows "her fulgent head uncovered, dazzling the beholder's sight." ❋ 1489-1534 [Illustrator] Correggio (1893)

He may also perceive a resemblance in the wine to the studious mind, which is the obverse of our mortality, and throws off acids and crusty particles in the piling of the years, until it is fulgent by clarity. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

He trotted out the fulgent and tonal Church of the Rev. Septimus; the skeleton of worship, so truly showing the spirit, in that of Dudley Sowerby's family; maliciously admiring both; and he had a spar with Fenellan, ending in a snarl and a shout. ❋ George Meredith (1868)