Truss, a former sports columnist for the London Times, appears to have been set a-blaze by two obsessions: superfluous apostrophes in commercial signage ("Potatoe's" and that sort of thing) and the elision of punctuation, along with uppercase letters, in e-mail messages.
He said that the director had "set a blazing fire" and that "the actors feel they are embarking on a voyage of danger and magnificence that will bring them into a realm of acting they have never achieved before".
Stroked by the senior Nito Simonsen, who competed for Norway in the 2000 Olympics, the Golden Bears set a blazing 48-stroke cadence start; 250 meters into the 2,000-meter 2,000-meter course, Cal had a three-seat lead over Washington, which started at 42 strokes.
Last year, a committee in Texas began a review of arson convictions after a report revealed that a man executed in 2004 for setting a blaze that killed his three children may not have been guilty.
Across the room the sun always setting, a blazing orange wallpaper mural hung by the hands that had installed the imitation fireplace, devised tinfoil armatures to simulate the crackle of burning logs, anchored the chandelier so securely in the ceiling it had supported the weight of his wife when she hung herself from it.
More workers in Mexico have died from their wounds following a blast that set off a blaze at a gas plant, bringing the death toll to 30.
But I have come to see George Wallace as a sort of Promethean figure in American cultural history -- let's not reduce him just to politics -- and when he stole the fire of race, he set off a blaze that couldn't be put out.
The fire recalled a similar disaster in Rhode Island in 2003, when a rock band's pyrotechnics set off a blaze that killed 100 people.
In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines.
There are 200 seats set under a blaze of orange walls, with a paddock of communal dining in the restaurant's center and wide dining rooms to the north and south.
SHANGHAI — A fireworks blast set off a blaze in a restaurant and bar in eastern China on Saturday night, killing at least 15 people and injuring at least 22 others, according to state-run news outlets.
