Word: white-hot
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...Example: Henrik, the most tortured of this quartet, is allowed to reveal his charm before his pain, then his white-hot hatred, are allowed to postulate. Similarly, flashes of grace appear, like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that...
Here is the effortless technique of Melba, formidable in the mad scene from a 1901 Lucia di Lammermoor. Here is the Italian tenor Emilio de Marchi, the first Cavaradossi, ringing the rafters with a triumphant Vittoria! in a 1903 Tosca. Here too is the white-hot French soprano Emma Calvé, a peerless Carmen; the Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich, who negotiates the Queen of the Night's treacherous coloratura con molto brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (née Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brünnhildes in history. And here...
...that was in 1996, before the boom. A coldhearted investor could say the Connellys, for all their success, screwed up. Little Gobles is not exactly the white-hot center of the real estate inferno. If they had continued trading up for nine years--buy, fix, sell, buy, fix, sell--there's no telling how much profit they could have made. (Their Chicago house, they say, would now sell for more than $750,000.) And if they had plowed that profit into a second investment property ... and a third...
...Housing Bubble 2 Arizonan Ben Jones blogs on the white-hot real estate market and its impact on the larger economy...
...couple at an adjacent table--which, this being Manhattan, was a handsbreadth away--visibly stiffened, and the man groaned. The woman looked at Coulter with white-hot hatred, and Coulter ... blushed...