The white-hot center bubbled outward, and was gone.

As we skirted a deep hole a group of men were sharply silhouetted on to the white-hot centre of the bonfire.

Then flame and smoke spread from that white-hot center, and the tail section, independent now, began to fall.

She was successful enough that she spent the next year in the general vicinity of popularity's bright light, though not at its white-hot center.

He sought his Han within the white-hot center of his rage.

Those seemingly benign sentiments have propelled Mr. Lee into the white-hot center of Taiwanese politics.

Boy, oh, boy, was I glad to be in the white-hot center of this mess.

In the context of the exhibit, these white-hot centers are all of a piece with the notion of the beginnings of life and life itself.

Those two companies operate at the white-hot center of what we care about as a magazine.

The white-hot center, not so much beating but bleating out its life: a neon density that flickers like a serpent's tongue.