The thunder rumbled louder and the lightning ran criss-cross over the sky".
He employed a compendium of jazz styles — from the growling plunger mutes of early big bands to the lightning runs of bebop — while wholly transcending category.
The first movement in particular was notable for the sense of repose and spacious lyricism that Mr. Ehnes frequently carved out amid the lightning runs.
Of course, optimistic people still get hit by lightning and run over by cars — and too much optimism can result in the highly negative repercussions that often accompany overconfidence, from ruinous financial choices to disastrous political missteps.
Or "a lone tree burning on a desert" circled round by every poisonous thing, and "the strange coral shapes of fulgurite in their scorched furrows fused out of the sand where ball lightning had run upon the ground in the night hissing and stinking of sulphur".
TALKING TV: 'Orange is the New Black' is the new hot "Homeland's Carrie Plot Twist Now Officially a Lightning Rod" ran the headline of one blog post doing a postmortem on the postmortems; "Homeland Fans Feel Cheated" ran another.
But then, fast as lightning, he ran off.
