A suicide bomber strapped with explosives seemed to give a local official a hug before blowing both of them up in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland on Thursday, the latest attack in an apparently escalating campaign by militant group al-Shabaab.
Their usually explosive backcourt seemed oddly out of sorts.
Thoroughly Danish, impressively innovative and potentially explosive, they seemed apt symbols of the new Copenhagen dining scene.
Mr. Rose, in his muscular, often explosive readings, seemed intent on reconciling them by playing Brahms with a weight and volume more typically lavished on Liszt's showpieces.
The Knicks had threatened briefly, several times, but never could come up with what some basketball players like to call "the big hoops". The team was flat, and the tension that often trans lates itself into explosive action seemed only to have clogged synopses.
The bombers, who use crude explosive devices, seem to want to avoid large loss of life.
Size and explosive strength seem to be Tongan birthrights - Jonah Lomu might have played for New Zealand, where he honed his skills, but the genes inherited from his Tongan parents were a useful starting point.
He was attracted to boxing, which seemed explosive and free.
While that bill and subsequent versions became bogged down in ideological debates, Democrats and Republicans eventually found common ground on issues that once seemed explosive.
Near the epicentre of the quake, witnesses mentioned "explosive sounds" that seemed to come from high in the air, while seismologists as far away as England and Norway noted "oscillations" in lakes.
