We get a character "licking his compressed teeth," a tennis court "studded with yellow balls," "a giant disk [the sun] flaming a good part of the eastern sky," "the lobby was swarmed with people," a victim of violence "booted half to death," eyes that "shone with a stiff light like a crazed man's," a "hilly gravel road filled with doglegs," a swimmer "crawl-stroking to the shore".
The pilgrims who come have endured rain, hot sun or flaming barricades and rioting on the streets.
The Celestial Stranger (from The Kingdom of God) Had a man been always in one of the stars, or confined to the body of the flaming sun, or surrounded with nothing but pure ether, at vast and prodigious distances from the Earth, acquainted with nothing but the azure sky and face of heaven, little could he dream of any treasures hidden in that azure veil afar off.
It was late afternoon, and the sun was setting in flaming pinks and golds over the mountains as I returned exhausted but happy from an 18-mile spring bike ride up Provo Canyon.
When Pearl Jam's first album came out, there was a song called "Jeremy" that I would play over and over in my walkman: "At home drawing pictures of mountaintops, flaming yellow sun, arms raised in a V, the dead lay in pools of maroon below... King Jeremy the wicked ruled his world.
The scene of the ship's departure from Vulcan for Earth was more difficult to accomplish; the camera pans behind live-action characters to follow the ship as it leaves the atmosphere, and other items like flaming pillars and a flaring sun had to be integrated into the shot.
Each night, the sun lingered a little longer over the mountains, and a flaming band of light streaked the western sky all night.
A variety of angled scrims in geometrical shapes on a spare set come alive with images: flaming candles, unfolding script, human figures, mathematical diagrams, the sun and its corona.
This deity with flaming hair hewn from stone is Sunna, the Saxon god of the sun, as imagined by 18th-century antiquarians.
The birds looked like flaming winged arrows, an equipoise of extended neck and trailing legs, wing feathers jet black in the slanting afternoon sun, their beaks menacingly hooked, their honks baleful and lonely.
