Sentence examples for with a conflagration from inspiring English sources

And suddenly the silent video goes white with a conflagration in the small space: the woman, on fire.

Two of the Shore's landmark restaurants ended their summer seasons, not with a bang, but with a conflagration.

Eliot Calvert is a would-be playwright and Boston bookseller who sacrifices his literary ambition (his major dramatic opus would end with a conflagration that consumes the stage) to a life of quiet desperation, selling pornographic pictures to support himself and his family in a manner befitting Beacon Hill.

With her convoy rode United Nations gunmen, part of a peacekeeping force of 10,000 charged with preventing a conflagration in the aftermath of 14 years of horrific civil war.

But her smile is barely skin-deep; in the previous scene, we saw her in a blazing brawl with Emma — a conflagration that left Adèle stumbling along a nighttime street in feral moans of distress.

It was as if children had been locked in a room with matches and petrol; a conflagration was only a matter of time.When the crisis did come, there were no good choices.

Mr. Bloomberg said he was well prepared to deal with a racial conflagration or other crisis.

IN the final minutes of the movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," with a nuclear conflagration on the horizon, the only person in the Pentagon's war room who remains upbeat about the prospect of mass annihilation is Strangelove himself.

Fifty years later it was losing its popularity, and the miserable end came with the fire of 1936, a conflagration so great that it could be seen in Brighton.

Back in 1993, David Koresh's Branch Davidian sect ended in a conflagration after a 51-day standoff with the FBI.

On the campaign trail, he never met a conflict he couldn't turn into a conflagration, including one particularly ugly spat with the parents of a KIA Muslim soldier.