"The world is complicated; it is combustible," Mr. Hagel said.
Their partnership was said to have been as productive as it was combustible.
She's combustible, perhaps — she's burning up.
Sex and money: it's a combustible combination.
It's highly combustible, body-shaking, joyfully virtuosic jazz that, regardless of the traditional forms that it shakes off or the new ones that it embodies, both honors and extends the sonic and emotional range of historical jazz.
It's a combustible situation, made more so by the influx of well over a million Syrian refugees into Lebanon, a country of four million people long divided over the issue of Syria, which occupied Beirut for twenty-nine years, until local and international pressure forced the Syrians out, in 2005.
It's a combustible concoction wherever it occurs: increasing productivity, widening inequality, and rising unemployment create tinder-box societies.
It's too tentative to be combustible; instead, it just deflates.
*** If Kushner's laughter is combustible, so, in certain theatrical circumstances, is his temper.
