But then the Little Girl meets her next-door neighbor, the Aviator (Jeff Bridges), who lives in a house overrun with trees, flowers and warm bursts of color that help, along with the story of the Little Prince he relates to the Little Girl, to unlock her imagination.
When the debate over global warming burst into prominence more than a decade ago, scientists based their assessment that the earth's temperature was rising on a single set of observations, those at the planet's surface.
A tonne of methane emissions, by contrast, creates a strong burst of warming over a much shorter period.
When he made the putt for his first birdie, he was accorded a quick burst of applause that resembled the weather -- sunny and warm.
Will buds that bloomed in December's warm chicanery burst their pipes and suffer winter damage?
Passages that, in other recordings, seemed merely warm, here burst forth like Rachmaninoff, and lyrical interludes sang with a glittering urban melancholy, like a Rhapsody in Gray — all the while luxuriating in the ambiguous and intricate tonalities.
That was the most traumatic event in the two decades of international talks which have gone on since the global warming issue burst on to the scene in the late 1980s, not least for the enormous weight of expectation which had built up behind it.
Her beautiful, big brown eyes were welled up with tears and as I greeted her with a warm smile, she burst into a sobbing fit.
As soon as we got the kids out on the deck, the storm would burst, warm rain hitting the hot concrete and the surface of the water.
Even as I descended the stairs I heard his voice, which like the rest of him was too large for those subterranean rooms, spilling out of them as if to climb back into the bright afternoon that, though it was mid October, had nothing autumnal about it; the grapes that hung ripe from vines throughout the city burst warm still in one's mouth.
