"My right knee was like a time bomb waiting to explode," he said, "and eventually it did".
Its internal divisions could explode; and the demographics are against it: most supporters in the east are pensioners (people like the 18-year old Linke deputy in the Saxony parliament are mere window-dressing), while in the west the party is dominated by older communists and sectarian splinter groups, whose theoretical positions the easterners often find baffling.
Nicolas Sarkozy billed it as the moment of truth, when his challenger François Hollande would explode under the president's superior debating skills.
Without combat skills, my party bleeds out on the floor of the Ag Center, flailing to hit anything while pod zombies explode all around them.
Officers quickly swept people westward with a brief bombardment of smoke, gas and pepper balls, which explode with an irritant.
Will Conservatives introduce legislation allowing the sun to explode?
Unfortunately Kathy Bates hasn't had as much to do this year as last (her accent is "Baltimorese", apparently) but is reliably solid and looks likely to explode in the coming episodes.
There is, she says, an association for her with the Jetztzeit, the notion of the "now time", or "here and now" laid out by Walter Benjamin – the moment in which an encounter with an image can explode the "continuum of history".
Imusa, dismayed by his volte-face, continued to argue the deal would eventually explode in United's face.
The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis I asked my kids and their friends what it is, and isn't, okay to fictionally explode.
She also said she had an implant in her eye that would explode if she spoke of the satanists, and that a friend she'd confided in was murdered in front of her.
