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And although there is no doubting his ability it was a big ask pitching him into this scaldingly hot seat.
But if there is any social policy today that has a claim to being scaldingly inhumane, it is the ban on gay marriage.
For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt
If you're going somewhere with strict cultural mores, it's important to remember to include some light clothes you can cover up in to visit sights, especially handy if it's scaldingly hot too.
Beneath the shimmering choral voices and echoing hand bells of Jocelyn Pook's medieval-meets-contemporary score, scaldingly back-lit rows of actors hover in the haze that fills the expectant darkness of a cavernous Olivier stage edged with scorched trees.
Within the same hour of the morning he relented because he was too scaldingly thirsty, too inwardly parched, to hold out any longer.