The match began in a caldron of noise.
In these mysterious places, people mingle in a caldron of exuberance and suffering, against a backdrop of clashing architecture and sensuous detail.
In a caldron of summer heat and deep uncertainty, clashes in the streets have erupted, most recently last Saturday, when pro-army toughs attacked a protest march in the neighborhood of Abassiya.
Nearly a third of the protesters killed — 10 so far — have come from Sitra, a half-hour drive from the capital, Manama, seething in a caldron of politicization, hardship and repression.
The Junior Phenom Camp was grass-roots basketball in distilled form — a caldron of ambition, networking, gossip and backbiting.
Democrats, Republicans and the apolitical alike expressed a mix of anger, frustration, disappointment and, above all, certainty that very little will ever change in the Middle East, a caldron of ancient hatreds and inexplicable feuds.
But Martin K. Whyte, a Harvard University sociologist whose new book, "Myth of the Social Volcano," parses the frustrations of average Chinese, said in an interview that a caldron of discontent still bubbled.
The second attack on Tuesday happened in the northern city of Kirkuk, a caldron of ethnic tension among Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.
Other groups appear to have moved in since, and the city now harbors a caldron of cells working together, officers say.
And finally, in the vein of hors d'oeuvres I've always wanted to serve on Thanksgiving but never have, is queso fundido, essentially a caldron of melted cheese with chorizo stirred in.
