What is another word for glints?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈɪnts] (IPA)

Glints, the brief flashes of light that catch the eye, can be described using several synonyms. One common synonym is sparkle, which refers to the glittering and shining of tiny specks of light. A glimmer is another word for a faint glint or shimmer, which can often be seen as a faint glow in the distance. A twinkle is a brief and intermittent glint, often associated with stars or lights in the night sky. Gleam refers to a steady and continuous glow or shine, often seen on a smooth and polished surface. These words all convey the same sense of light and shine, but each has its unique nuances in meaning.

Usage examples for Glints

But, for the hour, the sun shines brightly, and a narrow line along the upper surfaces of the metals, burnished by the polishing friction of a thousand wheels, glints like silver under the rays.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
His eyes gleamed, with angry glints; his mouth and chin were working.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
The darkness is extraordinary, in spite of the moonlight which, here and there, glints through the darkness of the foliage.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell

Famous quotes with Glints

  • Love has glints of light that wake up our heart to feel the beauty of life.
    Debasish Mridha
  • The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
    George Santayana
  • Perhaps there was too much of religion in one sense; the word is English, smacks too much of things external such as creeds, rites, an external piety; there is no one Indian equivalent. But if we give rather to religion the sense of the following of the spiritual impulse in its fullness and define spirituality as the attempt to know and live in the highest self, the divine, the all-embracing unity and to raise life in all its parts to the divinest possible values, then it is evident that there was not too much of religion, but rather too little of it — and in what there was, a too one-sided and therefore an insufficiently ample tendency. The right remedy is, not to belittle still farther the agelong ideal of India, but to return to its old amplitude and give it a still wider scope, to make in very truth all the life of the nation a religion in this high spiritual sense. This is the direction in which the philosophy, poetry, art of the West is, still more or less obscurely, but with an increasing light, beginning to turn, and even some faint glints of the truth are beginning now to fall across political and sociological ideals.
    Sri Aurobindo
  • She also had bright yellow hair, which she washed once a week with a mixture of saffron, box shavings, wood ash, barley straw, madder, cumin seed, and one thing and another to bring out the hidden glints and restore its natural color. You left it on your head for twenty-four hours and washed it off with lye made from cabbage stalks, the only hazard of which was the second-degree burn. If your hair remained on the scalp, you were a blonde.
    Will Cuppy

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