The stifling, hushed air, the sand and thumping waves all seemed to be waiting for the sun to rise to ignite the conflagration of another stifling Manzanillo day.
The match that ignited the conflagration was $150-a-barrel oil, brought on first by instability in Central Asia and then a military and political confrontation with Iran and Venezuela.
There are two points of view on the matter: that eros blossoms as a fair flower of the emotional affinities of friendship, and that the mystical-chemical spark of erotic attraction ignites the conflagration that ultimately becomes love.
This was consistent with the main conclusion of the Presidential commission, which found that a failure of the seals in a booster rocket allowed hot gases to escape through a joint and ignite the conflagration that caused the Challenger disaster.
Most everyone has focused on the retraction of the Wharton student whose Internet posting ignited the Mets' latest conflagration, saying the reversal showed that Steve Phillips overreacted when he went to Pittsburgh to confront Bobby Valentine.
The spark that ignited the crisis led to a conflagration of adverse effects.
By many accounts, the new arsenal of social networking helped accelerate Tunisia's revolution, driving the country's ruler of 23 years, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, into ignominious exile and igniting a conflagration that has spread across the Arab world at breathtaking speed.
The plotters laid in front of the fire some of the gunpowder they had collected, to dry out, but a stray spark ignited the powder, and in the resultant conflagration Grant was blinded.
If the Bush surge ignites another conflagration in the Sadr City district of Baghdad among the Shia militias it is easy to see how Shia militancy could spill over into Basra.
Yet the monster (smashing thick glass with its gooey head) gets out anyway and, when Maggie fires on it, she ignites the entire vessel and causes a mighty conflagration.
