The youth ran a hand along his collar one more time, then sauntered across more glowing cinders back to the sandy arena.

At the other end of the bridge a flight of stone steps led down to the sandy arena covering most of the Island of Death.

Each of the 52 pairs went through a series of movements in the sandy arena, with judges in five different positions observing the movements and giving percentage scores based on the execution of the movements.

Ms. Champagne and her collaborators had turned the sandy arena on its head, using it not as the setting but as the piece's insistent soul.

They were inside the sandy arena, no more than twenty paces from me.

In the main section of the sandy arena, several of the handful of eggs had already cracked wide open.