Sentence examples for smoldering from inspiring English sources

Carr described that period for the ALP as playing out a "Jacobean revenge drama: in one act the knife is flashing, the blood is flowing, the next act that's got to be avenged, the next act he's smoldering with hatred, the final act the stage is littered with gasping corpses".

Smoldering resentment at the strain on the country's resources from the influx of Chinese soldiery and civilians was inflamed in 1956 by reports of fighting and oppression in districts east of the upper Yangtze River, outside the administration of Lhasa but bound to it by ethnicity, language, and religion.

It is as if colour itself has nowhere to spread or settle in the dense space: it meanders aimlessly, apathetically smoldering or flaring up in the twilight.

His murder ignited a tinderbox of tensions between Indians and whites that had been smoldering for 55 years over competing land claims (including disputes over the grazing of colonial livestock on hunting and fishing grounds), interracial insensitivities, and English cultural encroachment on Native America.

Katy Jurado (María Cristina Estella Marcella Jurado García), (born Jan . 16 , 1924Guadalajara, Mex. died July 5 , 2002 Cuernavaca, Mex)., Mexican actress who, projected a smoldering sensuality and vitality that captured audiences' attention first in Mexico and later in the U.S. where she was one of the first Latina actresses to find success in Hollywood and Europe.

Smoldering ethnic tensions and resentment concerning inequities in power sharing and access to oil wealth and development erupted in armed confrontation on December 15 when gunmen fired on the presidential palace.

In 1930 the Dutch-born artist Johan Thorn Prikker completed a cycle of windows for the Romanesque Church of St . Georgein Cologne in which lead lines are used with a graphic eloquence and deep smoldering colours with a monumental gravity that have no parallel even in the greatest medieval windows.

Bishops and abbots became the competitors of lay princes in the formation of territories, a rivalry that more than any other was the fuel and substance of the ceaseless feuds the smoldering internal wars in all the regions of Germany for many centuries.

Under the influence of Reubeni's charismatic personality, a young Portuguese Marrano (a Jew forced to espouse Christianity), Solomon Molcho, openly adopted Judaism; his subsequent sermons inflamed the smoldering messianic hopes of many Jews.

The American forces finally withdrew, leaving most of Charlestown a smoldering ruin.

The Cordillera Neo-Volcánica, also called the Neo-Volcanic Axis or Trans-Volcanic Axis, is a geologically active mountain range whose smoldering cinder cones link the Sierra Madre Occidental with the Sierra Madre Oriental at the southern edge of the Mesa Central.