To a curmudgeon like me, it's just a flame, for goodness sake.

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It was a royal violet, and he paid to have it tailored into a two-piece outfit, with a flame-like flourish of orange brocade on the bodice.

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Whichever way you looked, there was nothing but smoke and flame - it was like a scene from Dante's Inferno.

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This occurred to me (yet again) during the deafening first sequence of "Lethal Weapon 4, " which consists of an armor-clad gunman with a super-deluxe flame thrower and a submachine gun walking through what looks like the rainstorm that forced Noah to build an ark.

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This is a nation that met that responsibility by choosing, like your ancestors did, to keep alight the flame of knowledge and invest in a world-class education for your young people.

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When the flames came together, "it didn't look at all like a cauldron, " he said, adding the it was key that all the flames merged "into a single flame - that was quite, quite important".

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Once they snuffed that flame, though, I folded my fandom like a pup tent, and hiked away, like I always do, forgetting even the most marquee events until next time around.

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