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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



... of our line at this point, and dropped four red stars, which floated downward slowly for some distance before they died out. When our men, whose eyes had not unnaturally been fixed on this display of pyrotechnics, again turned to their front it was to find the German trenches rendered invisible by a wall of greenish-yellow vapor, similar to that observed on the Thursday afternoon, which was bearing down on them on the breeze. Through this the Germans started ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... technical acquirements, gradually changed into that now almost obsolete abomination, the "Italian opera singer," an artist, who, shirking all responsibility for the music and dramatic action, neglected the composer so far as possible, and introduced vocal pyrotechnics wherever he or she ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... substance which is the author of its existence. Books he detested, one and all, excepting only those which he happened to write himself. And they were not a few. On all subjects known to man, from the Thirty-nine Articles of our English Church, down to pyrotechnics, legerdemain, magic, both black and white, thaumaturgy, and necromancy, he favored the world (which world was the nursery where I, on his first coming home, lived among my sisters) with his select opinions. On this last ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various



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



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