Lynda Resnick

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

American Businesswoman

Charles Lindbergh

About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

American Aviator

Andre Drummond

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that happen and we're talking, it helps us all out in the long run.

American Athlete

Richard Farnsworth

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.

American Actor

Ginnifer Goodwin

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.

American Actress

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

American Psychologist

Georgina Bloomberg

I really like to look professional but also have personal flare. You will never find me in head-to-toe designer - I like to mix it up.

American Celebrity

Sylvia Plath

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

American Poet

Gaston Bachelard

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

French Philosopher

Akhil Akkineni

Unfortunately, I have a temper. I tend to flare up once in a while.

Use 'flare' to describe a light that quickly appears and then fades.

Brief Intensity

'Flare' can metaphorically suggest something becoming noticeable.

Metaphorical Use

A 'flare' often signifies the need for immediate attention or help.

Attention Grabber

'Flare' is common in rescue or hazardous contexts, indicating urgency.

Emergency Situations

Use 'flare' to depict a sudden worsening or outburst, like symptoms or feelings.

Emotions and Conditions

Similar to light, 'flare' implies a brief but strong increase in intensity.

Brief and Intense

When 'flare' is a verb, it means a quick, often negative response.

Sudden Reaction

'Flare' involves a visual expansion which can be literal or figurative.

Visual Impact

Use 'flare' to describe the widening shape of clothing or objects.

Physical Spread

A 'flare' can add dramatic or stylish emphasis to an appearance.

Subtle Emphasis

 And the moon is only two seconds away, so if you take a picture of the moon using ordinary light, it's the moon two seconds ago, and who cares. Two seconds is like the present. The Sun is eight minutes ago. That's not such a big deal, right, unless there's solar flares coming then you want to get out the way. You'd like to have a little advance warning.

The design of the...

 flares and then we can have a helicopter appear if they within 40 minutes one hour and they can chase the bear away and that's a much more desirable outcome than actually shooting a polar bear that's why the population is doing something so good up here so if you're out and about and do spot a polar bear the most important thing is

What to do if you see a...

 Most of the characteristic char-grilled taste doesn't come from the wood or the charcoal. Buying mesquite charcoal will not actually make that much difference. Mostly it comes from fat pyrolyzing, or burning. So it's the fat that drips down and flares up that causes the characteristic taste.

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 can be cast a stirring narrative, and I hope that people with greater artistic flare and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further. It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order

Is the world getting...

 Your eyebrow twitched. You flared your nostril. I watch that TV show 'Lie To Me.' I know you're lying." No, liespotters are armed with scientific knowledge of how to spot deception. They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday;

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 produce the different notes within it. And those notes finally emerge through the flared bell opening at the end. What started as a deep breath and a vibrating buzz on the lips has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune.

How brass instruments...

 But I claim that B is incomparably worse. As an astronomer, I can't believe that humans are the end of the story. It is five billion years before the sun flares up, and the universe may go on forever, so post-human evolution,

Martin Rees: Can we...

 in Kagoshima for the first time in a decade, it was revealed that the two pairs had fought on opposing sides. Tempers flared and a fight almost broke out until their father stepped in. The brothers managed to make peace

The Akune brothers:...

 The first is a solar flare so strong it fries satellite circuitry– as well as many other devices and power grids around the world. And the second is an orbital chain reaction of collisions.

What if every satellite...

 nice isn't it nice and big you know when it stands up with its hood flared it's my size because it can raise

Flare

A sudden and brief burst of bright light.

Often appears as...

A signal or device producing a bright light for use as a warning or help, especially on a road or in water.

Often appears as...

A sudden increase in intensity, like a disease or emotion.

Often appears as...

To burn with a sudden intensity or to suddenly become angry or more intense.

Often appears as...

A widening or spread outward.

Often appears as...

Brief Intensity

Metaphorical Use

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