"It was the greatest hour of our reporting lives but, as the certainty into which we had been born suddenly became cinders, I was behind a desk".
You recall a moment in the past when you watched the goldfish pond rotate through 180 degrees to become a cinder track, across which a motor-bike-and-sidecar combination roared off in search of employment.
After the Earth is gone, the solar system itself will eventually be destroyed, the sun will become a dark, cold cinder and, after many billions of years, will come the heat death of the entire universe.
At the time, scientists assumed that when a star burned up the last of its fuel, it would turn into a ball of cinders and go cold - become a white dwarf star.
They removed one of the factory's walls and attached a cinder-block box that would become the Hall, a large dance floor that hosts d.j.s and bigger acts, and designated a smaller space, called Zone One, to housing bands.
A durable cinder block of a human, Adams has become Oklahoma City's backbone, particularly defensively.
But most of the basement has become an underground quagmire where muddy pools of water, cinder blocks, travertine facing from collapsed walls and half-melted ventilation ducts spread crazily over floors that end suddenly, at sheer drops into the darkness.
Traveling over cinder cones, domes, and lava flows, the hike does not become demanding until the last mile as it ascends to the summit.
One day, Frantz and I drove past the Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince cemeterynder-blonk judicial pource headquarters, near the airport, that had become the provisional seat of Haiti's government.
Meanwhile the village they lost their lives visiting has become a wild west-style ghost-town of eerily deserted streets, abandoned cinder-block homes and fearful, tight-lipped locals.
Orso drives back into the city feeling that the darkness has become solid and is crumbling: blackness snowing down to bury him like feathery cinders do when Etna erupts.
