Sentence examples for searing ground from inspiring English sources

So is the final devotional act some undertake: casting off their shoes, in a show of renunciation, to walk the last miles barefoot on the searing ground.

Kuerten, tuning up to defend his French Open title, used his searing ground strokes to beat Alex Corretja, 6-2, 6-3, in a night match.

Cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica) is a troublesome grass on depleted and fire-seared ground.

The thickly painted turquoise circles of "May Day" all but congeal around an orange center; behind them a thinly painted ground of searing greens holds firm.

Where the first two sections portray life in the air and on the ground, the searing 50-page essay that concludes the book describes descent – no upper air, no perspective, just darkness and despair.

When England lost the toss on a cloudless day in searing heat at a ground on which they had never won, they might not have relished tackling a Sri Lanka side containing three players with Test averages in excess of 50.

A searing performance from Mr. Butcher grounds the film, but we are given no hint of where his character's rage comes from: like so many of the behaviors around him, it's sui generis, just another problem with no solution.

Adam Fleischman, the chief executive and founder of Umami Restaurant Group, is a big guy with a spiel about the balance between the burger (six ounces, freshly coarse-ground, seared on a griddle until just medium-rare) and the bun (soft Portuguese).

He was a ground-breaking novelist and essayist, a searing critic of American foreign and domestic policy and one hell of a cantankerous, patrician sophisticate.

Ours is a different recognition grounded in a historic set of oppressions established through searing social custom, legislative fiat, religious teachings, and racial taxonomies.

The years of the Dirty War form the general ground of the Pope's striking self-criticism: his experience, one Jesuit told me, was "searing".