smoulder

The novels of Dame Jilly Cooper, who has died at the age of 88, are joyous descriptions of a fantasy world where monied men cast smouldering glances and women are instantly aroused.

Rescue workers were clambering over the rubble – some of it was still smouldering.

Terence Stamp's dashing good looks and smouldering glare made him a star of 1960s cinema.

The scale of destruction and killing in the Gaza war obscures what is happening in the West Bank, which smoulders with tension and violence.

Same venue, more needle, this time between England and India, sparked on Saturday evening and smouldering across the following two days.