Sentence examples for is about to ignite from inspiring English sources
The old alliance between old and new Wall Street is crumbling, and a civil war is about to ignite, it seems.
"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official North Korean KCNA news agency.
"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest".
Tragedy lies ahead for the poet, however: "That which had ignited my literary passion, / Was about to ignite what my passion had fashion'd," he mourns.
But lost in the rapture of anticipation And thinking how great was my brilliant creation I quite failed to note as I gazed into space That incendiary things were about to take place: That which had ignited my literary passion, Was about to ignite what my passion had fashion'd.
The 60s proper were about to ignite.
The space heater in a realist painting by Vija Celmins, meanwhile, glows red hot against its cool gray background, looking as if it's about to ignite.
Duchamp settled in Paris in 1906 at a moment when decades of courageous experiment by French artists were about to ignite modernism.
The best is The Day the Earth Caught Fire, one of British cinema's liveliest nuclear angst pictures, which unfolds in flashback from a world filmed through a golden filter to suggest it's about to ignite.
Though he didn't realise it at the time, the young Australian academic was about to ignite a war between philosophers and scientists, by drawing attention to a central mystery of human life – perhaps the central mystery of human life – and revealing how embarrassingly far they were from solving it.
"It's a rocket that's on the launch pad, and they're about to ignite it; … we can't redesign rocket fuel at this stage," says Prewitt.
