The e-mail can be as intense, as personal and as unflinching as Tolstoy's searing letters from Hyères in 1860, describing the death "literally in my arms" of his brother Nikolai.
The ordeal involved searing letters, a contentious board election and no shortage of harsh words — the same playbook he used to gain control of Steak 'n Shake in 2008.
In February 2014, Dylan Farrow wrote a searing open letter in the New York Times after Allen was awarded a lifetime achievement Golden Globe.
The other two nominated songs — "Simple Song #3" from "Youth" and "Manta Ray" from "Racing Extinction" — weren't performed Sunday, with the omission of the latter inspiring a searing open letter from the song's vocalist and co-writer, Anohni, who would've been the first transgender artist to perform at the Academy Awards.
As governor of Arizona, Ms. Napolitano sent a searing two-page letter to her predecessor as secretary, Michael Chertoff, complaining that a $25 million national exercise in October 2007, which she and 23,000 other federal, state and local emergency workers participated in, was too expensive, too long in planning and "too removed from a real-world scenario".
Now a report in the 26 January Physical Review Letters suggests that searing hot temperatures generated inside the bubbles drive out nitrogen and oxygen, leaving behind a stunning light show produced by the trace gas argon.
Burns's letter elicited an aggressive, searing response from another N.F.L. player, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, who said he could not sleep after reading the letter Thursday night because he was too infuriated.
They took it upon themselves to censor or sanitize the searing emotions of her journals and letters, and to rewrite quotes that might, they feared, tarnish her respectability — especially in the light of her dubious marriage.
They took it upon themselves to censor or sanitize the searing emotions of her journals and letters, and to rewrite quotes that might, they feared, tarnish her respectability especially in the light of her dubious marriage.
The tabloid paps present ignored the band and snapped audience member Kate Moss instead, but the Stripes' performance – a searing take on Son House's Death Letter in particular – proved they deserved the hyperbole, revitalising the blues for a new generation.
