It should be dry, even fierce, as in the case of grappa, or what the French call eau de vie.
In dry months, the fierce sun can parch the soil enough to trigger a famine.
Dry weather and fierce winds have caused the fire to spread quickly, frustrating the more than 4,000 firefighters assigned to the blaze.
Today, its nickname the "city of the violent wind", after the fierce dry mistral that assaults its stone ramparts, is the most appropriate.
We next tried the black peppercorn chicken tikka, succulent, tender, spicy, with a dab of peanut sauce on the side to counterbalance the fierce dry flavor of the black pepper, and chicken chops, flayed chicken wings smoky with charcoal.
Here, small, waxy-leaved plants are adapted to the fierce drying winds, bitter cold and intense UV-rich sunlight.
Early growth is followed by destructive frosts, fierce rainstorms by long dry spells.
She was beautiful, luminous: her intelligence fierce, her sense of humor dry.
Inside the guest room, we sat on the carpets while Bushire's son fed the fierce fire in the stove with dry twigs.
Inside the guest room of a local commandant's house, we sat on the carpets while his son fed the fierce fire in the stove with dry twigs.
