Singing both verses of her fourth-act cabaletta with fiery accuracy — a challenge even for more experienced singers — Ms. Yu conveyed a startling intimacy in the huge Met, as if you were peering into Leonora's fevered thoughts.
Don Van Vliet preferred animals to humans, and Ice Cream for Crow, his 1982 swansong, is typically challenging, fiery and funny.
Writing for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger called "Revolution" one of The Beatles' "greatest, most furious rockers" with "challenging, fiery lyrics" where the listener's "heart immediately starts pounding before Lennon goes into the first verse".
To some degree Mr. Obama faces the opposite challenge from fiery black leaders who came before him: Is he too cool for a crisis like this one?
But the former first lady, facing a surprisingly strong challenge from fiery Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, may be feeling the pressure to get her message out to a broader portion of the electorate and steal back some of the thunder from her rivals.
A professor of homiletics, or preaching, at Boston University for two decades, Mr. Campbell was known for his extraordinary and sometimes fiery oratory, and for challenging his listeners to broaden their definitions of religion and race.
But she rises excitingly to the challenge of the fiery closing moments of each of the opera's two acts.
Bell's "thing" is a fiery brand of comedy that challenges listeners about their thoughts on race and privilege while also making them laugh, sometimes at their own prejudices.
He had already been visited at the mound by his manager, Joe Maddon, who seemed to sense before the game that the rain delay could be challenging for a fiery 24-year-old making his first World Series start.
Mr. Bloomberg has agreed to host a fund-raiser at his Upper East Side town house for the re-election campaign of Senator Scott P. Brown, a Republican, who is being challenged by a fiery consumer advocate, Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat who is also a professor at Harvard Law School.
