Not until well into the second act of "Blood Knot" do its carefully set up emotional fireworks begin to detonate.

Faced with his intentions, you should decide whether the emotional fireworks help or hinder the novel.

Mr. Ramos's incendiary performance burns like a fuse, lighted from deep inside his skin, that explodes with devastating emotional fireworks.

It was as good as any time she could remember with him; all the more so, perhaps, given the emotional fireworks that were still going off in her belly.

Although plenty of emotional fireworks detonate, "Alias Betty" maintains a chilly composure while following its volatile characters around.

On Thursday night, however, the emotional and artistic fireworks burst forth in the festival's third program at the New York State Theater.

Now that the emotional fireworks were over, apparently the bride was having second thoughts about dumping her groom.

In a novel, then, it's important to identify the moment when all the forces in your story come together to produce emotional and thematic fireworks.

What came back was not the emotional fireworks I expected, but a grin and a fistful of Italian change; the proper amount, as it turned out.

Another was creating visual embroidery for a stage work that drew its power from the emotional fireworks set off in that dreary drug chamber.