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.
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.
But music, even in this most mainstream setting, can still set a blaze.
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.
My abiding memory is of the time, a few years ago, when my mother, in an excess of seasonal zeal, put one too many flickering tea lights in the piles of cotton-wool snow that adorned the nativity scene, thereby setting a roaring blaze in the wooden stable that caused the Baby Jesus to melt.
Cabinet Ministers and government officials were quoted with much self-congratulatory praise, speaking of setting a precedent, blazing the trail and encouraging other countries to follow suit.
Al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants bombed another Superferry in Manila Bay in 2004, setting off a blaze that killed 116 people in south-east Asia's second-worst terrorist attack.
The transportation minister resigned after a train rammed a barrier at the Egyptian city's main railway station, setting off a blaze that left charred bodies on the tracks.
