Sentence examples for great conflagrations from inspiring English sources

News coverage of great conflagrations runs in the well-worn grooves of cliché and sensationalism.

Its fortunes declined thereafter, as it was plundered during the Thirty Years' War, devastated by two great conflagrations (1679, 1737), and further battered by the Napoleonic wars.

No great conflagration between us and Iran has occurred — because both countries have sought to avoid one.

Work seemed, of course, a mere straw, in relation to the great conflagration of his passionate life.

"And - oh! - all was lost in a great conflagration / And I just sat there and said 'Hell and damnation'".

An age of strife and disorder, decadence, and degeneration, the kaliyuga will, according to Hinduism, be brought to a close in a great conflagration.

After the last great conflagration, in 1997, there was a missing cohort in Indonesia of 15,000 children under the age of three, attributed to air pollution.

It was on that trip, Steinem told me — "and only after the great conflagration of feminist consciousness in America" — that she understood how much those first two years had shaped her.

Their information sheet directs visitors' attention to a stained-glass window depicting the great conflagration, but someone has also provided a soft sculpture granny who's asleep in one of the pews.

And - oh! - all was lost in a great conflagration And I just sat there and said 'Hell and damnation', For the rest of the night and the following day.

It has rather been the constant danger that a financial spark anywhere could cause the great conflagration that finally occurred in 2007-8 that kept Geithner and his colleagues up at night.