It feels more like a meeting, or a conflagration, of equals.
In this weather, the littlest things -- a spark from a chain saw or a hot car parked over dry grass -- can trigger a conflagration, like the one 10 years ago this month that killed 25 people and destroyed 3,200 houses and apartments.
A sudden shift in the wind can spread the flames to the house next door, sparking a conflagration, "like the world has never seen".
Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of terrorism and sky-high oil prices.
JERUSALEM — Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of terrorism and sky-high oil prices.
It's been more than two decades since the end of the Cold War, and many people may not know what such a conflagration would look like.
The situation is too much like August 1914: the forces are mobilized, the respective leaders are resigned to war, and any spark like a terrorist attack can set off a conflagration.
Their lives appear on-screen as a drama of constant and instant hyperenergetic circularity, which, like an electrical closed circuit overheats to yield a conflagration that, were it not all-consuming and deadly, might even be beautiful.
Instead, like Chile itself, the book was consumed in a conflagration that seemed to know no end.
So what should we say of those who are reaping money, power, prestige or votes via the incendiary vitriol with which they are soaking the culture like gasoline, requiring a single match to become a conflagration?
