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si ring

  • v  make very hot and dry
  • v  become superficially burned
  • v  burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
  • v  cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat
  • s  severely critical

  • With a diary kept in a secret attic, she braved the Nazis and lent a searing voice to the fight for human dignity.
  • The show that changed TV drama went out not with a bang well, famously, it went out with nothing at all but its final string of episodes were as searing, literate and .
  • Andrea Sachs talks with the author of Beasts of No Nation, a searing debut novel about child soldiers in Africa.
News & Articles

  • Electioneering over, Iran prepares to vote
    The rallies are over, the students have been sent home and the people of Tehran are preparing to brave another day of searing heat and impenetrable traffic to select a new president Friday from a field of six candidates.
    June 14, 2013 - CNN
  • Blackwater Draw site hosts archaeology students
    The sun beat down on Emily Jones as she crouched down to dust off the area she just excavated. It was almost quitting time for a snack, but Jones didnt let the searing 90-degree heat bother her...
    June 14, 2013 - Clovis News Journal
  • Walter 'Wolfman' Washington at Nightfall (June 14)
    An icon in the New Orleans music scene will take the stage as the Nightfall headliner on Friday, June 14. Walter "Wolfman" Washington, whose searing guitar work and soulful vocals have helped define the Crescent City's unique musical fusion of R&B, funk and the blues since the 1970s, will take the stage at 8 p.m. His shows are touted as highly danceable.
    June 13, 2013 - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in CNN
    We've seen courageous women stand up to the brutality and threats and we've experienced the searing image of a woman bleeding to death on the streets,said President Barack Obama.
  • Brian Williams in Forbes
    I have learned in searing fashion never to try to predict what goes on in David Chase's mind,adds Williams.
  • Adam Giambrone in Globe and Mail
    There are weeks that change your life and this one has certainly changed mine,Mr. Giambrone, 32, said. "This searing experience has taught me, I hope permanently, that a public career of integrity cannot survive deceit in your private...

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