One blistering rally provoked a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd, a demonstration of the power — mystical and physical — no two other women on tour possess now.
In battleground states, particularly where it was crucial to get out the African-American vote, Obama was giving one blistering campaign speech after another.
In response, Pesci and Liotta began publishing one blistering post after another, making them heroes, of a sort, to the detractors.
High noon, one blistering Sunday in Mexico City, and a quarter-final shootout between two arch rivals who hadn't met in a World Cup for 20 years and had grievance on their minds.
"I don't know what happened," Serena said, perhaps disoriented by one blistering Sharapova backhand that deflected off her racket at the net and caught her in the face.
There is only just enough here to fill a film; in the words of one blistering letter sent home from Brazil, "Everyone's feeling fine and managing to find things to do".
One blistering day this summer, Driggers traded his grease-spattered jeans for his old uniform, flak vest, and helmet, got behind the wheel of one of Berman's Humvees, and test-drove the vehicle on a two-mile course near a gravel quarry and some cornfields.
"Can you change the form or nature of an animal simply by coiling and uncoiling various parts of its genome?" One blistering summer day in 2005, Reinberg found himself stuck in a van ferrying a group of scientists to an epigenetics meeting outside Mexico City.
This is paced and styled to perfection, not least in the last minutes when what seems an interminable funicular ride from a hole high in the chalk cliffs – location scouts must have bitten their Gitanes with glee at finding that one – blisters into shock.
