blowtorched

As I alluded to last week, I got off to a bit of a rocky start with the Mission: Impossible movie series, with my initial outrage at how the first film in 1996 blowtorched the legacy of the TV show whose name it appropriated turning to apathy at how little of its name the 2000 sequel managed to embody.

Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol Zaki Hasan 2011

In recent months, he's been playing with burned flavors, for example, including a potato that is dehydrated, Cryovacked in a marinade and then blowtorched.

What's the Next Big Restaurant? Katy McLaughlin 2011

As I alluded to last week, I got off to a bit of a rocky start with the Mission: Impossible movie series, with my initial outrage at how the first film in 1996 blowtorched the legacy of the TV show whose name it appropriated turning to apathy at how little of its name the 2000 sequel managed to embody.

Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol Zaki Hasan 2011

Their speech is not prettified; the words are blowtorched through the nostrils with a vengeance.

Stewart Nusbaumer: Back to Brooklyn: Apostles of Park Slope 2010

Their speech is not prettified; the words are blowtorched through the nostrils with a vengeance.

Stewart Nusbaumer: Back to Brooklyn: Apostles of Park Slope 2010

It's the ease with which a kernel of truth associated (or not) with Muslims can be blowtorched, twisted out of all recognition and sculpted into something quite unrecognisable from the original that is so disturbing.

Muslims must refuse to rise to EDL provocation 2010

After a few minutes, any kicking or twitching ended, and Gilles took the bird and suspended it by the feet from a metal hanger that moved slowly along the overhead conveyor belt for a journey similar to that in the Hudson Valley slaughterhouse: bleeding into a trough, plunging into scalding water, being defeathered on tabletop machines (by Guy) and being cleaned and having remaining feather fragments blowtorched (by Ccile and Laura).

The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

After a few minutes, any kicking or twitching ended, and Gilles took the bird and suspended it by the feet from a metal hanger that moved slowly along the overhead conveyor belt for a journey similar to that in the Hudson Valley slaughterhouse: bleeding into a trough, plunging into scalding water, being defeathered on tabletop machines (by Guy) and being cleaned and having remaining feather fragments blowtorched (by Ccile and Laura).

The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

See, as a scientist I've had it beaten in to me to use the passive voice as much as possible, meaning just about all pronouns are blowtorched off the pages and conversation.

The Pronoun Game 2009

¬ † ¬ † Any of the 3 will get you blowtorched by Marsha.

Upcoming Awards at JSC: Marsha Ivins - NASA Watch 2007