Word: burnting
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...burn a newspaper to show their detachment from city life, but their modern morals have penetrated too deeply to be dismissed by such a ritual. The forest, reduced to a dizzying madness in Ray's shots from a car window, is polluted by both profane and commercialized love, burnt out by whiskey and corruption...
...length for five decades does not, considering his character, disprove the supposition of love. They met rarely, but Matthews is satisfied that Emily is the Aunt Agatha of Family Reunion and, more important, half of the "we" in the haunting passage at the beginning of Burnt Norton...
When the priest had closed his Bible and the assistant had walked up to the altar to extinguish the half-burnt candles, several women got up and went to the wooden tables in one of the aisles of the church and carefully lifted the small boxes and icons they had placed there on first entering. The icons were small dioramas and images, most of which depicted Jesus on a horse, a sword flashing in his hand. Invariably, Jesus was strikingly handsome, his long hair flowing around his proud face and fiery eyes...
...lonely without the company of a cigar. Here was this white norteamericano perfunctorily reading prayers in Spanish that probably none of these impoverished peasants could understand. What was more, four or five of the deceased's friends were smoking cigarettes. They had an almost compulsive look on their wind-burnt faces as they held the cigarettes up to their mouths and inhaled frantically, like teenagers trying to get the most out of each drag. Dark brooding clouds sat on the hulking cliffs above, as if God had resigned himself to the fact that as a matter of course...
Take for example the following comment made by Mr. Hall after describing all the wonderful benefits of owning a Delta 2000: "Nevermore should we have a burnt out boiler. Harvard is way ahead of the competition in this area." Now while I can almost understand Hall's high regard for his computer, the stuff about being ahead of the competition just goes over my head. Who's Harvard's competition anyway? Let's hope that Yale never hears about this whole thing or else we might find ourselves in the middle of an ever-escalating computer warfare. Yale will...