With the unwisdom of inexperience in communicating with an unlike thing, not realizing that the values of their kind of awareness might not be the values of this differing kind, they rushed in with all their powers and forces, a joyful rapturous pyrotechnical display of material manipulation to show this new life form that they too were aware-to communicate that the loneliness of one might now be softened by the presence of the other.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
More interested in animal psychology than in pyrotechnical displays, I watch the Epeira's doings, lantern in hand.
"The Life of the Spider"
J. Henri Fabre
To these provocations Rodolphe replied by a pyrotechnical display of madrigals, sufficient to make Benserade, Voiture, and all other dealers in the fireworks of gallantry jealous; and at the end of the dinner, Mademoiselle Laure, having learned that he was a poet, gave him clearly to understand that she was not indisposed to accept him as her Petrarch.
"Bohemians of the Latin Quarter"
Henry Murger