One searing experience was in February at a hastily arranged meeting between her father and the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose political blessing Mr. Gore wanted, before the New York primary, but without pictures directly linking him to the fiery figure.
JERUSALEM — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who became a fiery figure in Israeli politics as the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, championing the interests of Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin, died here on Monday.
Górecki's Symphony No. 3 was written in 1976, when Górecki was, in the words of the music critic Jane Perlez, "a fiery figure, fashionable only among a small circle of modern-music aficionados".
A dog dies on your doorstep; within weeks you find yourself face to face with fiery figures of your own guilt, who may be actual returnees from the land of the dead.
A laid-back former law professor, he became the protégé of Jerry Rawlings, a fiery political figure who was his opposite.
Outwardly, she may have seemed prim and self-effacing, but as Davies and Nixon brilliantly show, she was in fact a fiery, passionate figure who questioned every aspect of the patriarchal society in which she lived.
The Martinique-born Fanon, a psychiatrist before becoming a spokesman for the Algerian uprising against French colonial rule, is portrayed as a fiery, reckless figure whose belief in the therapeutic value of violence -- given full throat in "The Wretched of the Earth" -- hasn't aged well, though much of what he wrote seems prescient today.
But for the most part, Mr. Cheney, 69, has put aside his public role as the fiery, combative political figure of the last two years, who seemed to relish every opportunity to engage in verbal jousting with President Obama.
Ponderous, thundering bass lines stride through a brisk dance, and slabs of chilly string chords are offset by fiery, insistent brass figures.
He then composited this footage on top of the the fiery ring and action figure footage.
That figure and the fiery palette lend a jittery edge to a scene that might have otherwise felt nostalgic.
