Sentence examples similar to like flame from inspiring English sources

"Cadillac guys don't like flames," he said.

In Walter Pater's famous phrase, he burned "with this hard gem-like flame".

It came in a circular bowl with a volcano-like flame springing from its hollow center.

"To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life".

As Walter Pater, a 19th-century Oxford aesthete, believed: "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life".

The attack is driven by the imagined ideal of the cloistered monk-justice, innocent of worldly vanities, free of political connections and guided only by the gem-like flame of inward conscience.

Burning with a hard, gem-like flame, Serota has used the prize to turn up the temperature of artistic awareness in this country, to the point where we are deserving of Tate Modern, our own palace of contemporary aesthetics.

This is presented without comment; but of course none is necessary, given Cameron's astonishing rise, achieved – ahem – not by coterie or clique but by the honest sweat of his brow and the gem-like flame of his intellect.