For the first time in a lifetime of verbal pyrotechnics I found the flow shut off.

But even Robinson's verbal pyrotechnics sometimes failed to make the programme sparkle.

In Thorns the need for constant verbal pyrotechnics made me tense.

Those expecting Richler's usual verbal pyrotechnics won't be disappointed here.

As the verbal pyrotechnics crackled and sparked, we would be in for an early bonfire night.

It was probably Brian's brilliance and his verbal pyrotechnics which made me fall in love with him in the first place.

When they all finally get going, the verbal pyrotechnics are quite spectacular, but they don't, alas, last for long.

His generous visual gifts come at the expense of much in the way of verbal pyrotechnics.

George Bernard Shaw practiced a more exhausting form of verbal pyrotechnics.

He had eschewed the pulpit by then, and had no appetite for verbal pyrotechnics.

But Jeremy's verbal pyrotechnics did not work on Hitman.

My aim was clarity, not verbal pyrotechnics.

Though he can’t quite match Olbermann’s verbal pyrotechnics, he has connected with Olbermann’s audience.

A mastery of the art of man-management and verbal pyrotechnics could be found in both mavericks.

People tried to bait him on the ongoing verbal pyrotechnics between the Yankees' and the Red Sox' camps.

His verbal pyrotechnics have won Mr. Hendry a reputation for challenging the economics establishment.

But what will stay with you are the author's verbal pyrotechnics - which rival Albert's culinary ones - in bursts of seductive, mouthwatering prose.

There have been no such moments of candidate-on-moderator verbal pyrotechnics in the presidential debates, in part because the stakes and the format ensure against it.

Those who look more closely, however, will find a homely lyricism and a deep understanding of human nature that are far more satisfying than verbal pyrotechnics.

The world was accustomed to subterfuge and verbal pyrotechnics, and when it didn't get the expected commodity, it grew suspicious.

Chief Justice Rehnquist leaves the verbal pyrotechnics to Antonin Scalia.

Her writing style is considered to differ from the New Journalism style, dropping verbal pyrotechnics in favor of a stronger focus on the story itself.

At his best, he conjures up the magical aura of an artist, while at the same time dazzling the reader with his own verbal pyrotechnics.

Not long ago, at the end of the 1980's, Public Enemy was the unquestioned vanguard of hip-hop for both its sonic and verbal pyrotechnics.

As rendered by Mr. Lane with the punch of his muted-trumpet voice, such verbal pyrotechnics seem to give off actual sparks.