pyrotechny

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There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2014

In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I mean he has sued me!" — said Rufus stopping short and facing them with eyes that for the moment had established a natural pyrotechny of their own.

From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan

But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps, there are many degrees of frailty.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas