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Example sentences for: explosion

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Madrid flourished in the early 1980s, as characterized by la movida, a hip cultural explosion that rejected the repression of the Franco era through acts of hedonism and creative films, music and theater.
It was Giorgio Vasari, facile artist but first-rate chronicler of this cultural explosion, who allegedly dubbed it a rinascita, or rebirth, of the glories of Italy’s Greco-Roman past.
Probably not, for the simple reason that before the "welfare explosion" of the late 1960s, many poor blacks were blocked or discouraged from receiving welfare.
Conventionally Gothic on the outside, the church’s interior is like an explosion in a gold factory.
The church originally erected here in 1716 was totally destroyed by a mysterious explosion on Easter Sunday, 31 March 1970.