Sentence examples for combustible element from inspiring English sources

Character issues aside, Smith adds a new and potentially combustible element to the rotation.

But it has injected a combustible element into the drama playing out in the capital.

In those two was yet another combustible element to the occasion.

The lighter fluid that covers the hotel room is made from the most combustible element in sports: expectations.

The dispute has injected a combustible element into Hong Kong's legislative elections, which will be held Sunday.

Here, just by way of unsurprising example, is Marty Peretz in the New Republic:Israel was supposed to be the combustible element on which the entire region teetered.

Those are dangerously combustible elements in a political personality.

But none combined the combustible elements of large states, a live nomination fight and the electoral version of instant replay.

Like the ballet itself, the Bolshoi may look beautiful from the stalls, but behind the scenes it's blood, sweat and tears – a tinderbox of combustible elements to which personal and political rivalries lend a dangerous spark.

All are the combustible elements of a one-day trial in Paris that will judge whether boorish barroom behavior constitutes a hate crime in the case of John Galliano, 50, the fallen star designer of the House of Christian Dior.

But what makes this book terrifying in its sly, even insidious way is that you can't read it without imagining how the combustible elements of our own home front might ignite if the present moment does not hold.