Sentence examples for it's a conflagration from inspiring English sources

But by Manilow standards it's a conflagration, sung from the perspective of "a nobody longing for hot light/ lost in the crowd," who achieves success, becomes intoxicated by it and then, corroded by it, collapses, a brittle mess.

Basically, imagine a group of people watching a building burn down and bickering amongst themselves about whether it's a conflagration or an inferno.

It's a global conflagration.

It's a cozy fire, not a conflagration.

Sometimes it's a "cold war," sometimes a spectacular conflagration, and sometimes a tense negotiation in which both sides have the right to retreat from the negotiating table (provided that they are willing, too, to lose the public's trust in doing so).

Owen laments:For compared to the rest of us, no matter how hotly burned our individual flame, Father's was a conflagration.

Despite the title, it is a slow simmer, never a conflagration.

But the gas boom that the world is currently experiencing is a conflagration to be celebrated.

The result was a conflagration that cost Indonesia billions of dollars.

If we drop a match on a forest floor, we cannot predict whether the result will be a conflagration or a campfire just by knowing a lot about matches.

Everywhere there is a conflagration in progress, a wild fire, eviscerating necessary distinctions between observer and observed, nature and humankind, fact and interpretation.