incandescent

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It is the incandescent poems of his tortured and unsettled youth that still dazzle.

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And he has done so with a light-fingered insouciance that makes every scene incandescent with funny contemporary allusions.

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But what was appearing beneath his very feet was incandescent and pure gold.

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Officials said Friday that the fire was likely caused by incandescent candles and sparklers attached to Champagne bottles that ignited a ceiling.

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“Everything suggests that the fire started from incandescent candles or sparklers attached to champagne bottles, brought too close to the ceiling,” said Beatrice Pilloud, attorney general for Valais, the Swiss canton where the fire occurred.

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