razzle-dazzle
炫目,炫耀,炫目的,炫彩
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Definitions
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Informal.
- : showiness, brilliance, or virtuosity in technique or effect, often without concomitant substance or worth; flashy theatricality: The razzle-dazzle of the essay's metaphors cannot disguise its shallowness of thought.
- : Chiefly Football. deceptive action typically consisting of a series of complex maneuvers, as a double reverse or hand-off, usually executed in a flashy manner: a team relying more on power and speed than razzle-dazzle.
- : confusion, commotion, or riotous gaiety: He thrived on the lights, the crowds, the razzle-dazzle of the Las Vegas Strip at night.
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- : impressively opulent or decorative, especially in a new way; showy; flashy; eye-catching: a shopping center lined with razzle-dazzle boutiques.
- : energetic, dynamic, or innovative: razzle-dazzle technology; a razzle-dazzle sales pitch.
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Examples
But he did speak to the issue of the razzle-dazzle camera moves, at least indirectly.
That kind of behavior would be in keeping with somebody who had been slipped a date rape drug such as Midazolam, aka Dazzle.
Movies are meant to dazzle, and American Hustle does just that.
There was a kinetic energy, a vibrancy that leapt off the screen that did, indeed, dazzle.
But it was too late, as critics and audiences had already written it off once the show failed to dazzle them from the outset.
He supposed they had scoured all Jursa for a real beauty to dazzle him; but they would discover that it would not work.
But to do this I must dazzle him into giving me a great pleasure.
There lay his wife in all the finery she had arrayed herself to dazzle her fashionable acquaintances, a speechless corpse!
It did not dazzle me, however; it simply filled me, and gave me a sensation of peculiar buoyancy.
His prey would be driven out of its hiding-place by smoke, or the torch would dazzle it.