The church is a classic example of the flamboyant, or "flamelike," overdone final stage of Gothic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There's a fine, often surprising selection of large, angry, mature abstractions, with their jagged, flamelike shapes and troweled-on expanses of thick pigment, their labored surfaces seductive in the flood of light against warm concrete walls. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)
Gernot Vogel Kopstein 's bronzeback snake (Dendrelaphis kopsteini) has bright orange, almost flamelike, neck coloration that gradually fuses into an iridescent blue, green and brown pattern. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For one, the heat and humidity—so treacherous to the crackly pink sugar that is pulled, flamelike, around a raspberry, so threatening to those crisp corn pañuelos inspired by Katie—are at their highest. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)
Not everything here is tumescent: Théo van Rysselberghe's seascape "Big Clouds" (1893) is a bit of Seurat pointillism on the Danube, and in Klimt's "Forester House in Weissenbach on the Attersee" (1912), the open casements are painted with Van Gogh's flamelike passion. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)
"Travel posters plastered the smoke-dark walls, like so many picture windows overlooking Swiss lakes and Japanese mountains and African velds, and thick, dusty bottle-candles, that seemed for centuries to have wept their colored waxes red over blue over green in a fine, three-dimensional lace, cast a circle of light round each table where the faces floated, flushed and flamelike themselves." page. ❋ Sam (2009)
As Koloth tapped at a control panel on his desk, the lights came up, losing their flickering, flamelike quality. ❋ David R. George III (2010)
The Children of Danu were the powers of life, the powers worshipped in the ecstatic dances among the woods and upon the mountains, and they had the flamelike changeability of life, and were the makers of all changes. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)
The flamelike dark cypresses, writhing olive trees, blaring oversize suns, convulsed mountains, and vortically churning stars of Van Gogh's visionary madness are not far off. ❋ Updike, John (2005)
Men in clumsy heatsuits pushed them together, and welded them together with sticks that spewed flamelike light. ❋ W.R. THOMPSON (2000)
Through them, one had a spec - tacular view across the river to the futuristic Flamme d'Or, the Phillippe Starke-designed building of black glass, a kind of tetrahedron on acid, surmounted by a vaguely flamelike shape derisively christened by Tokyoites "the Golden Turd." ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1995)
A flamelike construction flickered inside frosted glass in a very realistic manner. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)
A static-filled image came on with a flamelike sound and Khabolov plopped on the sofa to watch. ❋ Kaminsky, Stuart M. (1987)
But the beams of gem light became flamelike and they licked about the flitter, drawing it down into their heart fire. ❋ Norton, Andre (1986)
Roxanne would smile to herself, well aware of her flamelike beauty that few other women could outshine. ❋ Winspear, Violet (1980)
His flamelike touches have always held this preciousness: notations rather for the courtly robe or diadem than just drawings. ❋ Marsden Hartley (N/A)
Most often this conception of love's flamelike lightening of life for the poet is applied to Sappho. ❋ Elizabeth Atkins (N/A)
Much verse pictures the poet as a flamelike spirit kindled by love to a preternaturally vivid apprehension of life for an instant, before love dies away, leaving him ashes. ❋ Elizabeth Atkins (N/A)
Its solemn isolation, its unearthly color, and its flamelike outline fill the mind with astonishment. ❋ Various (N/A)
