The reporter in me wanted to get a closer look at the conflagration, but the people I was with didn't want to go any nearer.
A seamless weave of truth and drama, "Zero Dark Thirty" tracks the long, twisted road to Bin Laden's capture, beginning on Sept. 11 and ending a decade later at another conflagration, in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Staring out most keenly of all were the survivors, those who had been present at the conflagration and who had built new lives and new families in a new home – a home that had never quite known how to embrace them.
Not nearly tough enough, many fans responded on websites: they had hoped for a gunfight between the feuding Grundy brothers, the death in childbirth of the dismal organic shop owner Helen, a conflagration at the Bull pub, or at least a mass outbreak of winter vomiting virus during Linda Snell's pantomime.
Terrorists would have a far easier time igniting a conflagration at a toxic chemical plant or refinery than at a nuclear plant.
Jason Calacanis says in an AOL memo he's posted that his model for Netscape has been vindicated by the recent conflagration at Digg and rapid growth of page views at Netscape.
Tape recorder in hand, he will meet up with some old friends and ask them to talk about one of the four ancient elements: earth, air, fire and water.His oddball pals oblige with often hilarious accounts of storms at sea, conflagrations on land and other hair-raising misadventures.
Dragons were thought to have been extinct for over a century until Daenerys Targaryen hatched a trio of them in a magical conflagration at the end of the first season.
A similar outcome after a runoff round might mean greater instability for a few months, and the risk of another conflagration at ballot-counting time, but perhaps this would be bad-but-manageable.
The galvanizing battle over the nomination of Robert H. Bork in 1987, a conflagration at the intersection of law and politics that held the country spellbound for three months, was the most riveting public event I ever witnessed at close range.
