Mr. Harris, more than matching his tumultuous performance in "Pollock," creates a wrenching, incendiary portrait of a man ravaged with illness, who thrashes with rage and bitterness, his emotions burning out of control like a torched oil slick on a contaminated lake.
In their living room, simple Milo Baughman sofas surround an ornate 18th-century mantel topped with one of Sergeant's creations, a mercury mirror in a torched frame.
The only logical end to such a meal is s'mores — deconstructed, as is the fashion, with a hickory-smoked graham-flour cake, a torched smear of marshmallow fluff, dark chocolate pudding and graham crackers broken on top.
The body of three-year old Nicola Campolongo was found on 17 January along with that of his grandfather Giuseppe Iannicelli, 57, and a young Moroccan woman, Ibtissa Touss, 27, in a torched Fiat Punto in the town of Cassano Jonio in Calabria, southern Italy.
Clashes outside the cemetery interrupted the proceedings for a time, sending tear gas and black smoke from a torched car wafting among the mourners.
The feud in the film was supposedly started by a torched tinker's cart at a horse fair, and renewed in 1992 by a deadly fight outside a pub, for which Mr. Quinn McDonagh's brother Patty served prison time for manslaughter.
Nearly two dozen varieties, most of them from France and Switzerland, are served in the traditional manner: icy water is poured over a torched sugar cube, dissolving it in a reservoir of the verdant liquor.
The terminal at Roberts field airport, thirty-five miles outside Monrovia, is a torched husk, and the road into town snakes through a depopulated, marshy green landscape in which the dominant features are a long line of electrical pylons with no wires, and roofless, burned-out houses.
A torched truck at the Skouries forest gold mine.
Pastor Carlton Lee knows all too well the hurt and pain caused by a torched church.
