Where Africa is concerned, it seems, extinguishing fires before they can get out of hand is scarcely ever tried.
But the following day, slumbering on a commercial flight to Johannesburg, the firebrand seemed extinguished, the rhetorical storm stilled.
When finally only the little doll was left in darkness under the table, a life seemed extinguished.
Alfonso's position worsened after the failure of the government of Antonio Maura (1909); the last hope for the parliamentary regime seemed extinguished.
This organization might have coined "Ya Gotta Believe," but all hope in the stands seemed extinguished before the final three outs left the Mets with an uncomfortable 2-4 record for the season.
The culture once known as "America," it seems, has summarily extinguished itself, and Hank, one of its sole survivors, wants to set posterity straight about its decline and fall.
And like Dresden's fires, it seems impossible to extinguish.
As long as there are still undiscovered plants in remote corners of the world, a passion for plant hunting, it seems, is never likely to be extinguished.
It seems impossible that such a spirit could be extinguished.
Every day, it seems, the Mets do all they can to extinguish the hopes of the faithful.
And on the whole it seems the passions that burned so fiercely 40 years ago have by no means been extinguished.
