The word of the day is coruscate:
< participial stem of Latin coruscāre to vibrate, glitter, sparkle, gleam.
To give forth intermittent or vibratory flashes of light; to shine with a quivering light; to sparkle, glitter, flash. (OED)
"We therefore assume that a man like Malick is playing a devilish game of anti-publicity, in order to stoke our curiosity; no less perilous, however, is our assumption that merely because a movie, or a novel, was pondered, and kept secret, for a lengthy period it must tower above its more precipitate peers. Not so. Don’t forget Edgar G. Ulmer’s coruscating “Detour” (1945), which was shot in six days."
- Anthony Lane, "Time trip: Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life'", 30 May 2011 The New Yorker
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