Sentences with phrase «of bursting into flames»

Samsung still holds that honor after the Galaxy Note 7 developed an unfortunate habit of bursting into flames.

So, while walking the show floor at PAX this year, I was reluctant to even come close to the sequel, aptly named Two Worlds II, for fear of bursting into flames.

These natural materials tend to smolder instead of bursting into flames.

Not exact matches

Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames near the Columbia River in the town of Mosier., the Federal Rail Administration said.

Fisker then suffered a series of mishaps, including a battery flaw that caused at least one of its vehicles to burst into flames, and a lurid episode with Consumer Reports, when its test Karma sedan failed to run at all, a first in the history of that publication.

If I got to watch a school bus full of children roll over in front of their christian parents and burst into flames and roast I would probably jerk off right then and there.

It is as if the fact of bringing together and connecting the two poles, tangible and intangible, external and internal, of the world which bears us onwards had caused everything to burst into flames and set everything free.

In fact, it's surprising Rush doesn't burst into flames when he drives by a church or other house of worship.

Under this metaphor, the good minister is the one who keeps reducing the elapsed time from the detection of the first wisp of the smoke of conflict, through the scramble down the long ladder and the rush out to the trouble spot, to the stamping out of the smoldering source of smoke before it bursts into the flame of serious congregational conflict.

For his part, Block displays the patience of Job, when many a lesser person would have positively burst into flame.

St. Dominic founded the Order of Preachers after a long contemplative season which, in the words of one biographer «burst into flame» when he encountered Albigensians (ancient Manichean dualists) on travels through southern France.

The man lost control of his car and drove into a ditch, hitting a pipe that caused his vehicle to flip three times, then land on the passenger's side before it burst into flames.

The most dramatic part of the demo was when I overheated the thin stainless steel soup pot with olive oil in it and it burst into flame.

Jett, for his part, did everything he could to assure Meeks that No. 2's greens would not wilt, scorch, brown, wither, mildew or burst into flame before the conclusion of play.

The shredded paper got caught under the exhaust pipes of the overheated cars, burst into flames and sent players and spectators fleeing for their lives.

On its third attempt, the plane finally went up, but came back down again just a few miles past the end of the run - way, crashing through a house, and bursting into a ball of flames.

The death of Thatcher will light a fire under the smouldering local elections contest about to burst into flames across the country.

The Boeing MD - 83 aircraft was carrying 153 passengers and crew when it crashed into a densely - populated area in the north of Lagos and burst into flames.

Researchers have tried to get around this by coating the tips with chemicals that boost electron emission, but this can be problematic because some of the most effective ones burst into flames when exposed to air.

Fire services were called to Woburn Animal Park when 40 tonnes of elephant and rhino manure burst into flame.

It is 10 times as far from the sun as Earth is, its thick atmosphere is tinged with methane (the air would burst into flame if oxygen were present), and it has about a seventh of Earth's surface gravity.

Sunscreen is supposed to safeguard against solar burn, but a handful of incidents are on record in which people seemed to literally burst into flames while wearing a spray - on product.

In a study that could improve the safety of next - generation batteries, researchers discovered that adding two chemicals to the electrolyte of a lithium metal battery prevents the formation of dendrites — «fingers» of lithium that pierce the barrier between the battery's halves, causing it to short out, overheat and sometimes burst into flame.

ZPower's batteries also offer the advantage of being immune to «exothermic decomposition» (also known as «bursting into flames»), a problem that has prompted the recall of millions of lithium - ion batteries worldwide, not to mention some spectacular YouTube videos.

When 17th century chemists watched a piece of wood burst into flames, they believed they were watching the release of a mysterious substance they called phlogiston.

On June 30 two men drove a dark green Jeep Cherokee into a set of doors at the Glasgow airport in Scotland, producing a burst of flames that officials deemed an act of terrorism.

There is no item of clothing that, when donned, will make you burst into flames.

After my ears burst into cherry - red flames of anger, I was holding the perpetrators over the rubbish bin and stopped with a crazy thought — what if I wore earrings as brooches?

In first - century China, people are mysteriously bursting into flames, so, a group of experts is assembled to find out why.

A real Christmas miracle would cause every copy of this film to spontaneously burst into flames.

Whatever charm the movie has comes mostly from its intermittent lapses into Z - grade filmmaking: a videotape bursting into flames after being tossed into a pot of boiling water, redundant explanatory titles, numerous interminable slow zooms into Portnoy's expressionless face.

And watch the incredible range and focus of Nixon's performance: the deliberate rhetorical emphases and repetitions; the flashes of steely anger and startling shifts into unctuousness / condescension when he seems like he could burst into inappropriate laugher or tears or flames; the (strategic?)

Some of the isolated moments are very fine: a shot of the horse galloping into view along a distant line of Mediterranean beach; a tilting shot of the struggle for survival in the night waters as the ship (with decorous flames in its portholes) starts to go under in the background; great bursts of energy amid a garbled sense of time and space in the horse race sequence.

The construction boss (Tony Leung Ka - fai) is under intense deadline pressure when key ministers of the empress start bursting into flames and are swiftly reduced to ashes.

Johnny has the gift of internal combustion — allowing him to burst into flames at will, Ben has turned into a huge rock monster, Reed is able to stretch his frame into any imaginable shape, and Sue has the ability to turn invisible... as long as she takes off her clothes.

This top - secret facility houses such freaks of nature as Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), a water - dwelling fish / man with empathic powers, and Hellboy's girlfriend, Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), a pyro - kinetic woman who can burst into flames at will.

In the minds and bodies of approximately 300 million U.S. citizens — not to mention the rest of the world — the towers will burst into flames over and over again.

After roughly 2,000 miles following behind the NV, the Miata's coil pack burst into flames just outside of Needles, California.

Before I'd even exited the store, all of my lobes had burst into flames.

You can turn pages as fast as you wish on a Kindle (actually one of the complaints about the device has been that screen refresh is a little slow, but let's ignore that quibble) without ever worrying about this eReader bursting into flames.

Scrap coal, spontaneously combusting; a million bits of coal bursting into flame.

In July 1944 A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots struggles to land her A-24 dive bomber whose engine suddenly burst into flames.

In ancient lore, the phoenix was a bird that would burst into flames upon its death and was then immediately reborn out of the ashes.

Throw the flashbang at a Wizard or Captain, shoot a burst of flaming hot plasma at them and watch them disintegrate into nothingness.

Skulls are what make this game so interesting - allow one of your party to eat three skulls, and they'll burst into black flames and become so much more powerful.

When her other work is edited out, what's left are films of the artist's prone nude body on the ground, or motionless in a river, or its outline bursting into flames; in one video, Mendieta digs a body - shaped hole, pours vivid red paint over a rock where the heart should be and then lays atop it.

A centre - piece of this exhibition is Jean Tinguely's «Homage to New York» (H2NY) which was 27 feet tall and burst into flames...

On every occasion that one of these whirling wonders burst into flames, locals are told them it's a rare and unusual event, never likely to -LSB-...]

Even though there's no hard data showing a link between climate and incidents of spontaneous human combustion, you just know they have to be linked, so let's toss that in too, since people naturally fear bursting into flames.

In real life, anti-fracking environmentalists claim that fracking is responsible for methane getting into groundwater while also pointing out that the contaminated water will burst into a ball of fire when a flame is applied to it.