Sentence examples for burning wheel from inspiring English sources

Langgaard was one of music's depressive mavericks, and Ixion – taking its name from the mythological figure who was bound for eternity on a burning wheel – is a brief vision of hell, viewed as a condition of mind-numbing futility.

One thing I've learned in researching the lives of that bunch of mostly dead neo-Marxist German Jews called the Frankfurt School is that shopping isn't so much a satisfying pastime that boosts the economy as a burning wheel of Ixion on which we are bound until death secures our release.

He becomes a hero after risking his life to save a saucer-eyed little tyke trapped in the top car of a burning ferris wheel.

In the past year he has functioned as a kind of political Catherine wheel – burning brightly and with great intensity, but always appearing on the edge of spinning out of control.

The political three-ring circus that engrossed and even excited much of the nation in the days after the election is starting to look more like a hamster on an exercise wheel: burning up a lot of energy but returning again and again to the same place.

The bus driver reportedly stopped the bus a few times not long after leaving Chicago, before what sounded like a flat tire grew into a small fire burning over the wheel.

From well to wheels, burning a gallon of gasoline spews 25 pounds of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

A humanistic sensibility impelled the Enlightenment thinkers to condemn not just religious violence but also the secular cruelties of their age, including slavery, despotism, executions for frivolous offences such as shoplifting and poaching and sadistic punishments such as flogging, amputation, impalement, disembowelment, breaking on the wheel and burning at the stake.

It's hard to drive when you can't touch the steering wheel without burning yourself!

"Burning schools, burning markets.

But Froome's opportunistic move at the top of the Col de Peyresourde to take the stage win at Luchon and the yellow jersey showed that he is capable of far more than merely burning the opposition off his wheel when the road gets steep.