But the gruesome murder of a Post contributing columnist on the world stage is a torched bridge that cannot be rebuilt by bluster, bullying or billions of dollars.
The terminal at Roberts field airport, thirty-five miles outside Monrovia, is a torched husk, and the road into town snakes through a depopulated, marshy green landscape in which the dominant features are a long line of electrical pylons with no wires, and roofless, burned-out houses.
— There is no yellow police tape ringing the huge wildfire raging along Arizona's eastern flank, but the torched forest is a crime scene nonetheless.
Is France Willing to Work? Arson is a form of commentary favored by the French left, so at least 1,000 vehicles were torched by disappointed supporters of the Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal after she was defeated53percentto47percentcent by Nicolas Sarkozy.
By birth date, Burri (1915-1995) lands in the middle, but the works for which he first became known -- compositions made of coarse, torn and stitched-together burlap -- are the most traditional in their rectangle-based Cubism, as is a piece made of layered and blow-torched sheet metal.
The victor, after all, is a barbarian: the mercantile Yankee who, instead of fighting fair, torched towns, or the militant Prussian who lacked the cultivated sensitivities of the French, or the massed armies of decadent Europeans who could win only by drafting brash Americans into a worldwide war against Germany.
Nearly two dozen varieties, most of them from France and Switzerland, are served in the traditional manner: icy water is poured over a torched sugar cube, dissolving it in a reservoir of the verdant liquor.
Holiday-Spiced Vegan Crème Brûlée: This festive dessert is infused with warm autumn spices, and the crackly torched top will be a show-stopper.
Instead, there was a series of sinister ambushes, many of them on public transport.A year ago some 10,000 vehicles were torched and 233 public buildings set alight in the banlieues across the country.
It's a bit like "The View" and a bit like "Survivor" — a 90-minute tribal council, on a cheap game show set instead of a romantically tiki-torched beach.
The feud in the film was supposedly started by a torched tinker's cart at a horse fair, and renewed in 1992 by a deadly fight outside a pub, for which Mr. Quinn McDonagh's brother Patty served prison time for manslaughter.
