Sentences with word «touchpaper»
Conservative research unit diggers were hoping they'd lit the blue touchpaper and a media firestorm would begin.
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Other researchers offer alternative ways of lighting the blue touchpaper.
Five hundred years since Luther published his ninetyfive theses and lit the touchpaper to launch the Protestant Reformation.
Tom Beasley takes a shot at predicting the final shortlists for the Academy Awards... The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards season race.
Where the Caparo feels secure and builds its speed to a frantic crescendo, the Caterham's supercharger gives instant - hit blurring when you light the touchpaper.
The first turbo - charged V8 (I think I'm right in saying) with a brutal kick in the pants when the touchpaper is lit.
Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways.