Sentence examples similar to a sequence of detonations from inspiring English sources

Her new volume, a trio of linked novellas about the art world, is also a sequence of underground detonations, culminating in a physical explosion that tears apart a mountain – and at a stroke demolishes the 21st-century's corrupt linkage between art and celebrity.

To achieve the most precise detonation synchronization possible in the outer lens system, conventional detonators consisting of an electrically heated wire, and a sequence of primary and secondary explosives were not used.

Sometime in the unspecified future, a series of detonations has all but destroyed the world.

They cited a history of detonations of the weapon at the Nevada Test Site.

If other mines are present, the detonation of one mine may set off a chain reaction of detonations.

Such explosives have a low velocity of detonation with an appreciable detonation zone.

Police said a "potential means of detonation" was defused manually by police explosives officers.

It is a Salingeresque sequence reminiscent of the gossamer mind-spinning, and lethal detonation, of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish".

A high-speed camera was deployed to record the detonation sequences of the blasts.

Robert Hughes compared Bacon's face in it to "a hand grenade on the point of detonation".

I regard a bomb becoming an unexploded bomb after its intended moment of detonation.