Most candles contain paraffin, a petroleum-based wax that produces black soot when burned. |
We still see evidence of abiding bigotry and intolerance, in ugly words and awful violence, in burned churches and bombed buildings. |
They only have jazzed-up previews by which to judge whether to see a movie, and they've been burned enough that they're cynical. |
This was the first bloodless revolution in Tbilisi, a city which has been burned down forty times in its history. |
I recall a dandy front-page photo of a community street preacher, in which I burned a halo floating above his head. |
To produce electricity, natural gas is burned in a turbine similar to a jet engine, and the turbine runs a generator. |