In the past week, Mr. Maliki has added a new, potentially incendiary grievance against the Americans.

Aside from the potentially incendiary nature of the owner's comments, the views expressed by Hicks were the most curious.

But executives and others connected with the project acknowledge that their silence is also a measure of concern about the potentially incendiary nature of the subject matter.

Now, when something potentially incendiary happens, there are forums to tackle it.

That, too, would constitute potentially incendiary information.

"For a country in Depression, the writing about life in relief camps and corrupt officials was considered potentially incendiary."

But the potentially incendiary content was unheard of.

Leaving such a potentially incendiary event to chance, however, is risky.

And merchants, vendors and local leaders say they fear the outcome if efforts to resolve potentially incendiary issues fail.

The potentially incendiary conflicts that the movie had begun to explore are inexplicably dropped.