white-heat

When he found one whose source was deeper than any of the others, he persuaded it to change its channel, to sink a little deeper, move nearer to the white-heat at the root of the Heartstone, before bubbling again to the surface.

Elephant in the City 2010

Here in his own domain he had no need of the Salamander's aid to watch whomever he chose; the mirrors were his eyes, mirrors formed in the white-heat of his furnaces and enchanted before they cooled.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

Who knew back in the white-heat days of Saturday Night Live -- celebrated and memorialized with the scholarly bravura of a ball-turret gunner by Dennis Perrin -- that some day we might be addressing Stuart Smalley's creator as "Senator Franken ..."

Frankensense and Mirth: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

"The principal duty of the head of an organization in the formative, developing stage is to pump, pump, pump energy into every fiber of it, to train thoroughly every member of it, and to infuse into every employee white-heat enthusiasm."

Archive 2007-05-01 Will Price 2007

It was the quiet of tense nerves and imagination at white-heat.

Prester John 2005

Indeed, the discussion over him in Melbourne, not so long ago, might be said to have reached to a white-heat phase.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

The heat inside him went to white-heat, and beyond, to a shimmer that would have melted stone and vaporized steel and made the air burst into flame.

The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

The white-heat of them; vibes that had fed him up until last night.

Children Of The Night Lackey, Mercedes 1990

He was ever the subject of white-heat controversy—in death even as in life.

Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (1884-1951) 1989

My anger returned, but it was not the white-heat thing I had felt earlier.

The Courts of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1978