For a start, progressive voters are fired with the idea.
Americans were fired with the idea that they could improve their circumstances, right wrongs and do good.
In France, at about the same time, Etienne-Louis Boullée perpetrated buildings on a superhuman scale, fired by the idea of the supreme authority of architecture.
Fired with the idea of forging a native voice, Copland first turned to jazz, in pieces such as his sardonic Music for the Theater.
As investors pore over the volatile cash flows of his firm, Mr Ghai is fired by the idea of building a Hollywood-style studio that hires and trains Indian movie directors, writers and technicians.
Mr. Stockhausen has long been fired by the idea that art should transform us "out of life" itself, as he said at the press conference; otherwise "it's nothing".
What ideas fired the imaginations of these people?
After the fire, the idea of modeling the third Fenice on the 1792 version was briefly raised, then discarded.
After months and months of high unemployment and stern austerity, crooked bankers and shady journalists, and the hangover of riots that set parts of London on fire, the idea of a national revel seemed almost laughable, even more preposterous than revelry would usually seem in this land of sang-froid.
BALDWIN'S BITTER FIRE The idea of white supremacy rests simply on the fact that white men are the creators of civilization (the present civilization, which is the only one that matters; all previous civilizations are simply "contributions" to our own) and are therefore civilization's guardians and defenders.
As well as being bulky, they require large amounts of toxic and perishable chemicals, which can run out, limiting the number of shots that the laser can fire.Switch off the TV, we're firing the laserFor the moment, the idea of shooting down big nuclear-tipped missiles with lasers has been put on hold, and proponents of laser weapons are aiming instead at more flammable targets.
