infernos

The premier said the infernos are a national tragedy and called for new relations between the public and the state, but only after failing to find a scapegoat to blame for his government's inability to cope with the fires.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

Correct me if I'm wrong, but much more substantial "infernos" have happened in steel framed skyscrapers without catastrophic structural failures.

Debating "Skeptic Magazine" on September 11th Issues 2007

Now, these brittle, beetle-killed trees may be susceptible to burning in catastrophic wildfires-the kind of infernos that threatened numerous B.C. communities last year and that led to huge releases of greenhouse gases back into the Earth's atmosphere.

The Georgia Straight - News And Views Ben Parfitt 2010

He carefully picked his way through minute infernos and charred walls, taking care to make sure his enshrouding cloak did not snag of protruding rubble.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Wings’ Second Review Forum 2009

In contrast, the second one uses vocabulary that feels sort of weird to me. “minute infernos” and “enshrouding cloak” distracted me a lot from the rest of the sentence.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Wings’ Second Review Forum 2009

Among the scenarios they've conjured: flammable carpets sparking infernos; porous countertops spreading bacteria; jail furnishings being turned into weapons.

In Florida, Interior Decorators Have Designs on Deregulation Arian Campo-Flores 2011

By afternoon the first infernos turn the skies pink and orange so that all day long it looks like sunset.

Black Water Marcela Fuentes 2011

Haunting black-and-white images from the Dust Bowl by Arthur Rothstein and others rank among the iconic strains of American photography, along with Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs, the assassination images of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon, and the towering infernos of 9/11.

With depression talk, nostalgia emerges 2009

That's what biblical floods (and towering infernos and crashing aircraft) are for.

Television Maxine 2009

He carefully picked his way through minute infernos and charred walls, taking care to make sure his enshrouding cloak did not snag of protruding rubble.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Wings’ Second Review Forum 2009