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Pyrotechnics   /pˌaɪroʊtˈɛknɪks/   Listen
Pyrotechnics

noun
1.
(music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music).
2.
The craft of making fireworks.  Synonym: pyrotechny.





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"Pyrotechnics" Quotes from Famous Books



... teepees hard by. When the birthday of the Governor came, the party celebrated it with a display of fireworks and vociferous shouts of Vive le Roi, Vive Charles de Beauharnois, while the Indians yelped in fright and amazement at the pyrotechnics, or stood pressing their hands upon their mouths in silent amazement. The French called their fort Fort Beauharnois, and invited the aid of Saint Michael the Archangel by naming the mission in his honor. All went well till April, when ...
— A Half-Century of Conflict, Volume II • Francis Parkman
... conscientious workman would be under the necessity of repeating himself over and over again to the point of nausea. Nevertheless Durtal could see no possibilities for the novelist outside of naturalism. Were we to go back to the pyrotechnics of romanticism, rewrite the lanuginous works of the Cherbuliez and Feuillet tribe, or, worse yet, imitate the lachrymose storiettes of Theuriet and George Sand? Then what was to be done? And Durtal, with desperate determination, set to work sorting out a tangle of confused ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans
... lady lacked none of the appearance of frivolity, coiffed in curls, draped in lace and soft silks, but her mind was deeply occupied with the signs of the times. All the elegance of the chateau, all the seductive beauty of terrace, garden, and bosquet, all the piquant surprises of play and pyrotechnics, what were they? Simply the disinterested effort of a subject to give pleasure to ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee
... the Cupania made her way up the Narrows, and into the North River, where the flare of lights from the crazy steeps and cliffs of architecture on the New York shore seemed a persistence of the last Fourth of July pyrotechnics. March blushed for the grotesque splendor of the spectacle, and was confounded to find some Englishmen admiring it, till he remembered that aesthetics were not the strong point of our race. His wife sat hand ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


Words linked to "Pyrotechnics" :   genius, trade, brilliance, craft, music, pyrotechnical, pyrotechny


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