Holliger's imaginative modernist response is to create a kind of "cinder music", a flare of energy leaving something dry and ashen in tone.
This thrusts responsibility of a sort upon the individual for their actions, even if they aren't aware of them, especially if they let their mind run wild and in the flare of emotion do something as wild.
Noticing minutiae will lead you to the wonderful interconnectedness of her novels, where a small detail of wording or motivation in one place will flare with the recollection of something that happened much earlier.
On Feb. 17, having lost three of its last four games, the team needed a flash, a flare — something.
At the time, he had not been capable of much more than Excuse me? and he'd been excited and anxious and taken by surprise when he'd seen with what eagerness the boy turned to him, a sudden flaring in the sunken eyes of something like hope.
It is always the same when we come to this moment of the Olympic Games, this flaring of hope that something unflawed and unforgettable is in the air and it doesn't really matter where it finds us, whether it is in some foreign place or, as on a rain-smeared evening such as tonight, in our hearts and our home.
This will spark a flare of radiation that should tell astronomers something about enigmatic objects known as active galaxies.
The shape their clothes made was that of something being pulled down into the earth: scoop-necked tops, pear-drop collars, flared or leg-of-mutton sleeves, and flared ankle-length skirts and trousers made of cumbersome corduroy, denim, or hessian.
Maybe this had something to do with the bouquet of smokestacks in the southern part of town that, all day every day, belch fumes and orange flares like something out of a Blade Runner-esque dystopia.
Instead of using a grenade launcher, Vlad Gostom and Joshua Marpet are using a 37mm flare launcher — something you can buy at your local bodega.
