Word: infernos
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...conspicuously bad. The brutal indifference of lower-echelon toughs is conveyed with deadly certainty. The pathetic buffoonery of a courtroom defendant losing his pants is an excruciatingly effective touch of humor. Nor is it possible to fault Montand's performance as a Camus figure cast into a dialectic inferno...
...know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...
...Raffaele Minichiello is a good, hardworking boy, a frightened boy," said Prosecutor Antonio Scopelliti. "Life took him from the small, calm town of Melito Irpino, where he was born, to the inferno of Viet Nam, and from the fields of Melito to the chaotic city of New York. We believe in the Minichiello who fought bravely in the rains of Viet Nam and earned a medal...
...Human Map. Miyoshi was still at work when he saw a blinding flash coming from the direction of his home. "It was as though a million liters of gasoline had been dumped by enemy planes and set afire for a raging inferno." At once, Miyoshi set out for his house. He found himself wandering through an inferno never before seen by man, peopled by the dead and maimed, the terribly burned crying out for death. It took him a day and night to reach the place where his home had stood. Nothing remained but a pile of charred and smoldering...
...temperatures rise to a scorching 134°F. in the shade. Its only inhabitants are fierce nomads, one of whose reputed customs is to carve parts from battle victims and bear them home as trophies for their women. Yet the most awesome aspect of this Dantean terrain is the inferno that may be hidden beneath it. After three recent expeditions to the Afar triangle, a Belgian volcanologist named Haroun Tazieff concludes that subterranean forces may slowly transform the area into a section of a large new ocean...