With his incendiary words, Osborne has torched the flickering confidence that investors in the low-carbon economy were sheltering.

At these incendiary words the diplomats jumped up from their seats, shouting long strings of deprecations in Arabic.

He needed a simple, incendiary word that they could rally to, a fiery word that would entangle all three demons in one net of truth.

His incendiary words are expected to follow him into and perhaps throughout the season and create potential security problems.

Chee frequently says volumes with just a few incendiary words.

But what of the others, simply getting mellow to the incendiary words of the lead singer, David Hinds?

They also say that other, more incendiary words not on the tape were falsely attributed to him.

"Chee frequently says volumes with just a few incendiary words," Ann Abel said here earlier this year.

"It is a totally incendiary word within the community," Ms. Stovall said.

Thus, Paine's "incendiary" words were heard even by those common folk who had never learned to read.