"I saw a flash in the window, turned toward it and saw a burning cloud, which was surrounded by smoke and was going downward — it reminded me of what you see after an explosion," she said.
There were rare incidents when people came looking for fights in the parking lot, and more than once someone set off a canister of pepper spray inside the bar to send everyone running from the burning cloud of gas.
Since this long, long story began two mornings ago, we have heard episode after episode in which someone, coming down or going up the stairwell of the World Trade Center, perhaps, or trapped outside in the coils of a dark burning cloud with strangers, has done just what needed to be done, and it was more than enough.
On this slim connection, Chinedu asked the man if he knew of any jobs, and he was taken to the sawmill, where he began at once, working long days amid the scream of the ripsaw and burning clouds of sawdust, sleeping outside at night on a stack of hardwood planks.
Three large burning clouds are observed with varying flame characteristics.
Take "Fresh Light" (1987), in which she explores the silent world of coastal marshland in a way that is almost mystical, depicting an ethereal light burning through cloud cover above a vast, surreal, carpetlike landscape of grasses.
In hindsight the ultimate triumph of the civil rights movement seems inevitable, the bright sun of enlightenment inevitably burning through clouds of ignorance and injustice.
Other air pollutants -- like soot, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides -- leave discernible fingerprints: grimy windows, sterilized mountain lakes downwind from power plants or eye-burning clouds of smog.
The approximate size, convection velocity, and circulation time of unconfined burning-cloud releases scale with the cloud mass at powers 1/3, 1/6, and 1/6, respectively, multiplied by an appropriately dimensional constant; the influence of cross flow can only be important if its velocity exceeds that of internal convection.
The skin of the earth emerges there, burning like a cloud".
The movie could be damaged by too much praise, but Mr. Sollett's confidence and love of his cast -- all first time actors -- is like sunshine burning through a cloud bank.
