Something remained out there which had not been subjected to the same refining fire.

Instead I really believe in the refining fire of going through the show night after night.

The saving of the poet demands 'that refining fire/ Where you must move in measure, like a dancer'.

Here indeed is the secret: the passage into the Now is like a dance, and we can voluntarily give ourselves to the refining fire.

God of refining fire, bereavement is an experience which strips us and leaves us in floundering pain.

His pessimism was a refining fire.

The refining fire had burned away the dross and, when it had finished its purifying work, there was nothing left.

After passing through the refining fire of study at Cunningham, Miss Taylor is now working with two favorite ballet teachers.

You do not put a pearl under the potter's wheel; you do not cast clay into a refining fire.

Refining fire go through the heart Illuminate my soul Scatter Thy life through every part And Sanctify the whole.

And there is a refining fire in the tumultuous death-throes solo of a blood-streaked young man - Desmond Richardson in an unself-consciously bravura performance.

"Certainly in this screenplay, she experienced the beginning of the profound understanding that can only come through suffering, in walking through a refining fire," says Ms. Ruehl.

Reformation's Refining Fire; or, Iconoclastic Zeal Necessary to World Reformation (1645)

The holy frenzy of his earlier years had by now given way to a mellower, less strenuous approach to the keyboard, but the music-making still burned with a refining fire.

Duffy, of Refining Fire Chiles, in San Diego, is Ed Currie's arch-frenemy and sometime business partner.

God will bring this "third" through His own refining fires, leading the remnant that survives into saving faith when "the fulness of the Gentiles has come in" (Rom.

Not only so, but we are all in the very heat of the furnace, and under the very graving iron and in the very refining fire that our prefigured and predestinated character needs.

More than half of the 29 dancers performing this weekend at City Center came through the refining fire of the junior company, which serves as a bridge between the Ailey School and the senior troupe.

And he goes on to say that pain like that is necessary for his followers, but that it's like a refining fire, a fire which removes the impurities and leaves strong, clean and useful Christians.

All made their professional debuts as teen-agers and passed through the refining fire of several Ballet Russe troupes, with Ms. Tallchief winning over unfriendly colleagues by becoming adept at poker on the company's endless tours.

If choosing to be a professional dancer is "a lovely act of defiance," as Mr. Nagrins puts it, a lifelong struggle against the kinds of physical and emotional limitations that mark a career in dance may prove to be the refining fire.

He also relied on Dante's imagery: the idea of the "refining fire" in the Four Quartets and in The Waste Land comes from Purgatorio and the celestial rose and fire imagery of Paradiso makes its way into the series.

Nothing escaped the refining fire of his irresistible will: all imperfection, all ugliness, all weakness and deformity, all frailty, infirmity, disease, deficiency and defect, every fault and failing, every blight and every blemish, every flaw effaced, purged, and purified.