Sentence examples for be a conflagration from inspiring English sources

If we drop a match on a forest floor, we cannot predict whether the result will be a conflagration or a campfire just by knowing a lot about matches.

The result, unless all sides draw back, could be a conflagration involving half a dozen countries in the heart of Africa.This week, the Congolese rebels, strongly backed by Rwanda and to an extent by Uganda too, closed in on the capital, Kinshasa.

But the gas boom that the world is currently experiencing is a conflagration to be celebrated.

The result was a conflagration that cost Indonesia billions of dollars.

Owen laments:For compared to the rest of us, no matter how hotly burned our individual flame, Father's was a conflagration.

But by Manilow standards it's a conflagration, sung from the perspective of "a nobody longing for hot light/ lost in the crowd," who achieves success, becomes intoxicated by it and then, corroded by it, collapses, a brittle mess.

Basically, imagine a group of people watching a building burn down and bickering amongst themselves about whether it's a conflagration or an inferno.

Everywhere there is a conflagration in progress, a wild fire, eviscerating necessary distinctions between observer and observed, nature and humankind, fact and interpretation.

The show is not a history lesson, but all those events all happening at once... From the missile crisis to the assassinations to the riots and the civil rights unrest, the Richard Speck murders, the Texas [clock-tower murders] -- all these events start to become cumulative: 1968 was a conflagration and a coincidence of awfulness.

They wanted to join American troops in what they thought would be a global conflagration between Western democracies and Soviet Communism.

"Proper management has ensured that there will not be a mass conflagration in the name of religious war, including a flare-up in terms of missiles from Gaza and Lebanon," said Netanyahu, who has been accused by some of his cabinet ministers of not doing enough to keep Israelis safe.