(n.) The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leadership is not always about pyrotechnics at EU summits or staying one step ahead of the posse.
(2) It wasn’t just that she was overawed by the spectacle, although she was: stuff I took for granted – lasers, pyrotechnics, confetti cannons, all the usual bells and whistles of a big pop show – were a constant source of overwhelming sensory overload.
(3) Breathtaking motorbike stunts, laser effects, rock music and pyrotechnics: the story of the second world war has never looked so sexy.
(4) That the Turks shot down the jet and did so within 17 seconds – with the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , saying he gave the order to fire himself – suggests very strongly they were waiting for a Russian plane to come into or close enough to Turkish airspace with the aim of delivering a rather pyrotechnic message.
(5) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
(6) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
(7) Conventional wisdom suggests that Manchester United's defence is the rock on which their serial title successes have been built, the reliable platform that allows all the pyrotechnics up front to take place.
(8) The method used here could be applied to other pyrotechnic mixtures which give rise to complex mixtures of products.
(9) No verbal pyrotechnics here, nothing to challenge a conservative aesthetics biased against the house of fiction itself.
(10) But officials at Peta were much less happy with Beyoncé's half-time appearance – not because of the pyrotechnic electric guitar, the subsequent power outage , or even her decision to skip the song, If I Were a Boy.
(11) We also don't know what type of pyrotechnics were used."
(12) Gunpowder was difficult and dangerous to ignite at sea so, using pyrotechnic technology, Coston found a way that the flares could be hand-held and incorporate an ingenious self-igniting device.
(13) The Gavin & Stacey star showed no sign of going through the motions, interrupting Prince on-stage to take a selfie – which he subsequently tweeted – and using Arctic Monkeys' pyrotechnics to set his arm alight, albeit as a joke.
(14) Past outlandish displays from the American have included full facial masks, exploding bras and pyrotechnics.
(15) 8.34pm: From the emails: Susan Smillie - "The person responsible for the pyrotechnics on stage at the brits toneet is the nephew of Henry Cooper, he's called Alex Cooper (he works with my partner).
(16) In his youth Peter Brook was famed for his pyrotechnic dazzle.
(17) Click here to watch video Given its huge success and indeed the hullaballoo that surrounded its release – the snatches of it dropped into ad breaks during Saturday Night Live, the rapturously-received premiere of the video at the Coachella Festival – there's something appealingly low-key and unassuming about Get Lucky itself, particularly in the context of current pop music: no vocal pyrotechnics, no chorus signposted by a huge instrumental breakdown, and – a short burst of vocoder aside – none of the sonic trademarks of Daft Punk records that have subsequently become the sonic trademarks of noughties pop ("gimmicks that didn't used to be gimmicks," as Thomas Bangalter wryly described them).
(18) It appears that cases occurred only where this oily lubricant was used to manufacture near submicron-sized pyrotechnic flake (ie, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden), but never where similar flake has been manufactured for almost a century using polar lubricants.
(19) The standard criticism of Wallace's work is that for all its peerless pyrotechnics, it lacked heart.
(20) Metallica offered, in many ways, the most stripped-down show of all – though they had screens, they didn't have the enormous pyrotechnics and effects of their traditional stage show.
Sun
Definition:
(n.) See Sunn.
(n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.
(n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
(n.) The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
(n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.
(v. t.) To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
(3) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(4) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(6) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
(7) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
(8) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
(9) It has emerged that Kelvin MacKenzie , who attacked the decision by Channel 4 News in his Sun column and called on readers to complain to the media regulator, did not in fact end up lodging a complaint himself.
(10) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
(11) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(12) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(13) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
(14) Then annually from 1985 to 1989, they received written recommendations about sun protection for a period of 2-6 years after the initial education.
(15) A sun protection factor (SPF)-15 and an SPF-30 sunscreen were compared with regard to their ability to prevent sunburn cell formation after the exposure of human skin to a standardized dose of solar-simulated radiation.
(16) He said the Sun was hugely profitable and had enjoyed a record year in 2010.
(17) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
(18) This finding does not affirm the belief that protection of adult skin from exposure to the sun will reduce the risk from melanoma.
(19) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(20) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.