scintillating

adjective2

1. •
   That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.

   • On the scintillating water yellow and blue boats bobbed up and down. — 1994
2. •
   (figurative) Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.

   • A scintillating example of where the cultural politics of iconoclasm and of representation coincide, in the Hellenistic world, is offered by an inscription of the fourth century BCE from Delphi. — 2012