The Olympic torch is in danger of being extinguished for good, but not by demonstrators.
Mr. Waterston's Lear is only a fitful flame, always on the verge of being extinguished for good.
Four-and-a-half years after the conflict erupted, hopes of returning have been extinguished for most Syrian refugees.
When he announced his retirement from race-riding in 2007, what little chance Leighton Aspell stood of winning the Grand National seemed to have been extinguished for good.
As in, we'll all have one brief moment of glory, of celebration, of beauty and hope, burning bright like a dying sun before our lights will be extinguished for ever, as we collapse into a black hole?
There is a light, Morrissey once said, that never goes out – and here it is now, flickering on and away and still burning even as it comes dangerously close to being extinguished for good.
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About an hour or so into its journey, in front of the large France Télévisions building, the torch was extinguished, for 20 minutes - for "technical reasons", according to police - as it made one of several transfers on to a bus because of the sheer number of protesters.
It, too, was extinguished for a two-minutes' silence.
Street lighting was extinguished for the duration of the war and factory windows and skylights were daubed with a coat of matt black paint.
