Across the hallway, in a bathroom, the charred body of a man was on the floor, on his back, still smoldering.
He went back into the smoldering building, "fumbling," he said, "for anyone I could get".
In one of the final scenes of the movie, Jason Robards, dying of radiation poisoning, his daughter long turned into ash, finds his way back to the smoldering wreck of the Liberty Memorial.
On Saturday, Kenyan soldiers in Free Area escorted Luos back to their smoldering homes and stood guard with their assault rifles as the people sifted through the ruins and salvaged whatever they could before leaving.
As if to demonstrate how little the Giants know what to expect, running back Brandon Jacobs — always smoldering with intensity — declared that he would speak with reporters on only one day in Arizona.
"And it looks like the fire is out, but it will come back as a smoldering fire".
"You can drop a bucket of water over it," he said, "and it looks like the fire is out, but it will come back as a smoldering fire".
The 22-year-old actress showed off a rare smile at a screening of "On The Road" on Thursday, before going back to her famous smoldering eyes look.
Barry Gifford wrote Wild At Heart, the romantic story of two star-crossed lovers that David Lynch turned into a smoldering deathfest back in 1990.
Within a certain range of temperature and moisture conditions even after months of inactivity a rubble pile rich in tatami debris can smolder back to life, they concluded.
