The result was the pyrotechnical funworld of iTunes.
Fifty Shades of Grey, one assumes, has the "pyrotechnical hanky-panky" to qualify as a Wuthering Heights sort of read.
Mr. Gursky's art demands that we regard it likewise and not get hung up by the pyrotechnical mechanics, although the work eagerly exploits technology whenever necessary.
The sparky writing is intended to carry this familiar narrative, but, oddly, the modesty of the story's final revelation...is what redeems the pyrotechnical prose.
Actors who died in 2011 included the potato-faced Pete Postlethwaite; the pyrotechnical John Wood, one of Stoppard's greatest interpreters; much-loved stalwarts Anna Massey and Margaret Tyzack; and the Irish favourite T.P. McKenna.
The O. Henry she describes bears more resemblance to the candy bar than to the story writer: his "unique characteristic is the pyrotechnical virtuosity of an inexhaustible imagination projecting the gaiety of a benevolent, almost childlike sense of life".
